The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve (1941) was Sturges’s first true “A” production, and he was equal to the task, creating a tart romantic-comedy classic that starred Barbara Stanwyck as a con artist who first fleeces and then falls for a naive herpetologist (Henry Fonda).

…Bringing Up Baby (1938), and The Lady Eve (1941), in which Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, and other Hollywood leading men exchanged double entendres and pratfalls with gifted, glamorous comedians such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert. Overseen by studio directors such as

…Davis, and the romantic comedies The Lady Eve (1941), with Barbara Stanwyck, and The Big Street (1942), with Lucille Ball.

…Remember the Night (1940) and The Lady Eve (1941); and the westerns Union Pacific (1939) and Cattle Queen of Montana (1954). Other notable films were Meet John Doe (1941), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Clash by Night (1952), and Executive Suite (1954).