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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Preston Sturges
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Actors:
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Barbara Stanwyck,
Charles Coburn,
William Demarest,
Eric Blore,
Martha O'Driscoll,
Janet Beecher,
Henry Fonda,
Eugene Pallette,
Melville Cooper,
Robert Greig
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Duration:
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94 min.
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Rating:
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(8.1/10)90.5
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Plot Summary:
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When Jean Harrington meets Charles Pike on a ship, a misreading leaves them parting on bad terms. In order to win repudiate his love, Jean disguises herself as an English lady and sets off to for him...
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The Lady Eve
One of those movies whose contest-of-the-sexes themes are still relevant more than 50 years on, Sturges's comedy was also equal of the brightest, sparkiest movies of its days. Stanwyck is the card-playing scoundrel who manages to con Amazonian snake-charmer Fonda not on of a pad of cash, but at the same time is attracted to him. When he uncovers her dependable identity and refuses to bring into the world anything to do with her, she disguises herself as aristocratic British society lady Eve Sidwich, to incline him from time to time more. All of which sets the dais for the predictable mistaken identity and awkwardly mystifying situations that generally underline flighty romcoms - the quarrel here is that they are handled with the philanthropic of light touch that this kind of ma...
The Lady Eve
Agitated passionate farce, the firstly to show its president's penchant in the course of mixing up sexual innuendo, ludicrous men and pratfalls. There are moments when the walk drops, but in general it's vivacious deride relaxation, unusually after viewing its dull-witted remake Th
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