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The Lady Eve
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"This is a charmer of a movie with a gorgeous Henry Fonda and a beautiful Barbara Stanwyck, directed by the famous Preston Sturges. Charles Coburn and William Demarest have important supporting roles. If you never saw Fonda and Stanwyck when they were young and in a Sturges comedy, you're in for a surprise and a treat. Henry Fonda is absolutely adorable in the role of a naive snake specialist. Stanwyck is sunny as the snake charmer. (Eve - get it? Well, her character's name isn't Eve in the movie, but she pretends to be Lady Eve to swindle Henry.) Fonda plays Charles Pike, heir to a beer fortune, and Stanwyck plays Jean Harrington, a con artist on a cruise ship with her con man father (Coburn). Their goal is to land and fleece a sheep. Of course, Stanwyck makes the mistake of falling for her mark, so things go horribly right after many pratfalls and lies. Preston Sturges wrote the script, and he was at his top in "The Lady Eve." The studio system was at its best as well, calling up ... "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Romantic Comedy
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"For me, the romantic comedy Top 10 is the most solid compilation of the group. Not only is the rom com a clearly established American film genre, but the individual selections are all eminently reasonable and defensible. This is not to suggest that I wouldn't make alternate suggestions, because I would, but I understand the reasoning behind each of the ten films on the AFI's list. And I don't have any strong contrarian or idiosyncratic preferences that would lead me to tilt at a windmill like arguing against the selection of, say, City Lights (1931) as number one, or its inclusion on the list altogether. The one film on this list that I do question is Sleepless in Seattle (1993). There isn't anything outstandingly wrong with the film, but it isn't especially remarkable, either. It doesn't represent a particularly clever or innovative take on the genre. It doesn't push any boundaries. It doesn't mark any point in the development of the form (indeed, I would argue that it is fairly t ... "
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Barbara Stanwyck
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"Just about everyone on the interfilmwebs has been writing about Barbara Stanwyck in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday on Monday (16 July). I don't know Stanwyck's work as well as some, but she is in one of my favorite films, and arguably Preston Sturges' best, The Lady Eve (1941). In Eve, she displays all of the qualities that those who love her love: strength, independence, smarts, and a palpable sensuality. Two scenes show her, and Sturges, at her, and his, best: one where she narrates the very wealthy and well-known Charles Pike's (Henry Fonda) entry into a dining room full of women ready to work their wiles on him, and another where she takes Charles' head into her lap and seduces him without showing any skin or initiating any contact below the neck. In the latter, Sturges uses a handheld mirror to establish a frame-within-the frame as Stanwyck's Jean Harrington "directs" the action in the dining room. Her "direction" ends when she sticks out her foot to accident ... "
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