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The Lady Eve Movie Review & Film Summary (1. If I were asked to name the single scene in all of romantic. I would advise beginning.

Preston Sturges' . Donald Cried (2017) Streaming. She reclines on a chaise. He has landed on the floor next to her.

Now begins the unbroken shot. Her right arm cradles. She teases, kids and flirts with him, and he remains almost. And at some point during this. Advertisement. That. Stanwyck plays Jean Harrington, a con woman who travels.

She sets her sights on Charles Pike. Fonda), heir to a brewery fortune, as he comes aboard after a snake- hunting. South America. She drops an apple on his pith helmet as he climbs.

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Let us be crooked, but never common.”What. Stanwyck's performance is how she has it both ways. She is. a crook, and yet can be trusted. A seductress, and yet a pushover for romance. And he is a naive innocent. She falls for him so quickly and so thoroughly.

Fonda is the rock. He remains vulnerable and sincere throughout the. Advertisement. That. Stanwyck for one of her greatest performances, a flight of romance and.

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The movie establishes Jean Harrington in an inspired. Sturges cuts to the view reflected in the mirror, and. Jean provides a tart voice- over narration for her father, describing the. Then. as Charlie leaves the room, she simply sticks out a foot and trips him; as he. He. escorts her to her stateroom and she tells him to pick out a new pair of shoes. His vision blurs with passion, and.

Sturges comes within an inch of violating the production code, the way her toe. Poor Charlie falls for her, soon finds himself. Jean and her father, wins $6. The. plot unfolds as screwball invention, except that after boy meets girl and boy. Jean, hurt by the way. But Charlie can't believe it, and follows her.

Advertisement. Sturges. Demarest fell. into the bushes and Fonda tripped over a couch and a curtain before getting a. But they all worked. Lady. Sturges (1.

Watch her eyes as she regards Fonda, in all of. At first she loves the. Then she. is somehow caught up in her own seduction. There has rarely been a woman in a. Her. father is played by Charles Coburn (1.

Charles. Laughton. Here Coburn and Sturges make a crucial right decision: . She is in her stateroom, still in bed. Her father enters in dressing. At. this point we have a good notion, but no hard evidence, that he is a fraud. She wants. to see. He shows her four aces, puts them on top of the deck, and then deals.

The scene also sets up. Colonel tries to cheat Charlie at. Jean outcheats him to rescue the man she loves. A. movie like . Preston Sturges does a kind. Consider the scenes where Jean masquerades as the Lady Eve. She throws. Charlie off the scent by her very lack of a disguise: Brazenly entering his.

British accent and dares him to. She knows he cannot, and the masquerade sets up the two final. I will not mention here - - except to say that for my.