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Post by wmcclain on Feb 5, 2020 12:25:24 GMT
The Lady Eve (1941), written and directed by Preston Sturges. A father-daughter team of grifters is on board a luxury ocean liner when it picks up a rich brewery heir who has been pursuing his ophiological studies in the Amazon. The most eligible bachelor on board, he is shy and awkward and would rather avoid entanglements, but Henry Fonda is no match for Barbara Stanwyck, who takes him down effortlessly three different times. A complication: she falls in love half way through and has to defend him from her less fastidious father. Then it's break up to make up until the last scene. "Isn't It Romantic?" plays in the background. Witty dialogue and it is more earnestly romantic than your average screwball comedy. Sturges was always at war with the censors, but had a way of getting things past them. I think he must have gotten them drunk, else how to explain the orgasm scene? No, really: Edith Head costumes. Available on DVD. Other Sturges -- Sullivan's Travels (1941) and The Palm Beach Story (1942) -- are available as Criterion Blu-rays, so maybe we'll get this one, too.
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Post by bess1971s on Feb 5, 2020 17:24:24 GMT
Too bad Stanwyck didn't do more comedies. She had great timing and a way with a wise crack only equaled by Eve Arden and Lucille Ball.
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Post by teleadm on Feb 5, 2020 18:39:40 GMT
I have a little "trouble" following the snappy and smart dialogue sometimes, but it's such an entertaining movie such little matters doesn't matter too much. 8/10 from me. I knew there was a movie named The Birds and the Bees 1956, but I didn't know it was a remake of Lady Eve, with George Gobel and Mitzi Gaynor in the Fonda and Stany parts.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 9, 2020 18:09:38 GMT
Great movie.
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Post by Seto on Feb 18, 2020 19:00:52 GMT
Good movie. Stanwyck and Fonda are great.
I feel like the film runs out of steam a little once they leave the ship, no pun intended. However the train scene towards the end had me rolling with laughter.
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