The Lady Eve (1941)

Directors

Preston Sturges

Cast

Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, Martha O'Driscoll, Janet Beecher, Robert Greig, Dora Clement, Luis Alberni

The story

thumb|left|Charles Coburn, Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve Jean Harrington is a beautiful con artist, who works with her equally larcenous father, "Colonel" Harrington, and his partner Gerald. They are sailing on an ocean liner travelling from South America to New York with the intention to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike, the heir to the Pike's Pale ("The Ale That Won for Yale") fortune. Charles is a woman-shy snake expert just returning from a year-long expedition up the Amazon.

Genres

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