A very silly comedy but a lot of fun

| Apr 7, 2025

The dialogue is so good, the direction so light and witty and the whole atmosphere so essentially farcical that one does not bother about improbabilities.

| Oct 2, 2023

There's no space here to extol the individual glories...

| Jul 31, 2023

To go from the realism of Tom Joad to being a klutz in this charmer was remarkable...

| Mar 7, 2023

This is one of the best films I have ever seen, let alone one of the best romances. Its influence on future romantic comedies is undeniable and it remains as fresh and exciting today as it was when it was first released.

| Feb 7, 2023

The sexiest comedy in many a day.

| Dec 29, 2022

Some of it is slapstick; a little of it is impossible the wrong way; but in general its pleasures come from the characters as found.

| Dec 29, 2022

The Lady Eve cinches Sturges as an important personality in films... It is highly entertaining movie fare -- the kind that keeps the box offices busy.

| Dec 29, 2022

The Lady Eve is Preston Sturges' way of sneering at the law of averages and laying down the gauntlet to the fates... Sometimes he has got to crack, but that is not now: The Lady Eve is a honey.

| Dec 29, 2022

If you want an antidote for the blues in these troubled times, there's no better picture to see than The Lady Eve.

| Dec 29, 2022

The Lady Eve is Sturges' third creation and conclusively marks Sturges as a top-flight master in light, ingratiating, clever comedy.

| Dec 29, 2022

This reviewer has never enjoyed Miss Stanwyck so much as in this film. Why have they tagged her with so many dramatic roles? And it's a relief to see the personable Fonda dressed up for a change and in a light role.

| Dec 29, 2022

[The Lady Eve] is by all odds the best and breeziest thing at which Sturges has turned an impish hand and an equally impish pen.

| Dec 29, 2022

A psychologist might deduce that the author-director of The Lady Eve had taken a fiendish delight in upsetting the Fonda dignity. Be that as it may, the latter goes through his assignment valiantly.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 29, 2022

Mr. Sturges has turned out a beguiling mixture of farce, romance, and refined slapstick, and drawn sparkling light performances from two stars ordinarily identified with sterner stuff. He has filled an old bottle with heady new wine.

| Dec 29, 2022

Possibly Preston Sturges is the U.S. Wodehouse of the screen. Certainly he has that master's tendencies to make the trivial amusing... That's how he seems at present, anyway, exhibiting his third smash hit, The Lady Eve.

| Dec 29, 2022

Fortunate, too, are Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda to be in such select company; for while their ability is unquestioned, the seriocomic situations with which The Lady Eve is so generously endowed are shaped into superlative smartness.

| Dec 29, 2022

It preaches no moral; it never heard of logic, but it is hilariously funny, consistently bright and ingenious.

| Dec 29, 2022

A scintillating comedy dotted with piquant situations and clever lines and played against ultra-modish backgrounds, The Lady Eve proves a brilliant vehicle for the talents of Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

| Dec 29, 2022

The dialogue is sophisticated but never "superior"; the technique is tricky but never incomprehensible. You can check one off for a film that knows its business, and does it; The Lady Eve is a riot.

| Dec 29, 2022