After one year in Amazon researching snakes, the naive ophidiologist Charles Pike (Henry Fonda) returns to the United States in a transatlantic. Charles is the son of the Connecticut's brewery millionaire Mr. Pike (Eugene Palette) and disputed by gold diggers. The swindlers Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck), her father "Colonel" Harrington (Charles Coburn) and their friend Gerald (Melville Cooper) plan a confidence trick on Charles, but unexpectedly Jean falls in love with Charles and she calls off the scheme. However Charles's bodyguard Muggsy (William Demarest) discovers that Jean is a con-artist and the disappointed Charles leaves Jean.
Sometime later, in New York, the trio of con-artists meets their friend "Sir" Alfred McGlennan Keith (Eric Blore) in the horse races and they learn that "Sir" Alfred belonged to the high-society of Connecticut based on the reputation he had built. Jean sees the opportunity to take revenge at Charles, and she travels to the house of her "aunt" pretending to be the British noble Lady Eve. Mr. Pike promotes a party for Lady Eve and she seduces Charles that proposes her. But her intention is to get even with Charles.
"The Lady Eve" is a wonderful romantic comedy by Preston Sturges. The lovely Barbara Stanwyck has a witty performance in the role of a swindler that falls in love with a naive heir. The best moments of the movie belongs to her and I laughed when she tells her adventure in the tube in New York; or when she discloses her love affairs to Charles in their honeymoon. Henry Fonda is funny in the role of a simple and credulous son of a millionaire. The result is a movie that makes laugh and feels nostalgia for a time when the society could buy a story so delightfully unbelievable and witty. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "As Três Noites de Eva" ("The Three Nights of Eve")
Sometime later, in New York, the trio of con-artists meets their friend "Sir" Alfred McGlennan Keith (Eric Blore) in the horse races and they learn that "Sir" Alfred belonged to the high-society of Connecticut based on the reputation he had built. Jean sees the opportunity to take revenge at Charles, and she travels to the house of her "aunt" pretending to be the British noble Lady Eve. Mr. Pike promotes a party for Lady Eve and she seduces Charles that proposes her. But her intention is to get even with Charles.
"The Lady Eve" is a wonderful romantic comedy by Preston Sturges. The lovely Barbara Stanwyck has a witty performance in the role of a swindler that falls in love with a naive heir. The best moments of the movie belongs to her and I laughed when she tells her adventure in the tube in New York; or when she discloses her love affairs to Charles in their honeymoon. Henry Fonda is funny in the role of a simple and credulous son of a millionaire. The result is a movie that makes laugh and feels nostalgia for a time when the society could buy a story so delightfully unbelievable and witty. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "As Três Noites de Eva" ("The Three Nights of Eve")