A great classic film! The acting performances were nice. Henry Fonda from “12 Angry Men” we’re in it. This is a romance story about a couple who meets on a cruise. There’s also an actress from Double Indemnity.

Barbara Stanwyck carried this movie. Highly entertaining and definitely a must-watch BW flick.

One of Preston Sturges best films with great performances from Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda

Super lame. How could a man be so stupid?

Classic romantic comedy thanks to some superb lead performances and fun direction from Preston Sturges. Barbara Stanwyck is brilliant in the title role, conning a befuddled Henry Fonda not once but twice, including one of the sexiest scenes ever filmed (seriously, is it any wonder Fonda falls for her?). Behind the camera, director Preston Sturges delivers a unique romantic comedy that takes some surprising turns, especially since the con gets found out pretty early, only to play into a later one. Best of all, Stanwyck's character clearly drives the story, even when she is technically doing she bad things (she is a con woman after all). All in all, a classic romantic comedy of the highest caliber.

If you enjoy Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda this movie is just ok. They have been in much better films, that much is certain. Although the Lady Eve is funny and entertaining. It also has some ridiculous moments that are quite frankly a bit overdone. I started to loose momentum with the mistaken identity Scenes and Barbara Stanwyck's awful fake English accent that just didn't seem to fit in. The romance is lighthearted enough to come back to on occasion but as I said before this is not their best performances . Id recommend Henry in "Yours Mine and ours" And Stanwyck in Double Indemnity , Remember the night,A Man of her own and her best role as Mary Carson from the Thorn Birds. Pretty much any other acting Role was much better than this particular piece. But its still a sweet romantic comedy worth the view.

God how disgusting that must feel that everyone on the cruise ship is interested in you because of your wealth. Damn Stanwyck's so playful and flirty, I love it. She has this air of confidence and charm about her that I find very attractive. The type of woman that can take care of herself. Fonda plays the modest and somewhat shy and clumsy naive rich man which suits him perfectly. The chemistry between the two is attractive to watch. This movie feels kinda cozy. It taking place on a ship and all. The dialogue is very witty, it's quick and sharp. I get the whole charm and humor to this movie but unfortunately I can't relate to it at all. This was made during a different time when things were spoiled and Hollywood was all about glamour. I'm not rich, I do not care about high class society (unless it's being parodied), and I can't relate to con artists. That's the problem with me and a lot of these movies from the 40's and 50's - they're kind of cheesy and lame, especially with some of the sayings that were used back then. I didn't really like the way the characters developed. There's not really any sense to it. Like I don't understand how Charles didn't realize that Jean was cosplaying as Lady Eve. To the point where he falls in love and marries her. It makes him look really dumb and naive. And Jean's ways are really crooked and petty. Like the way she gets revenge by tricking Charles into thinking she's another woman and actually gets him to marry her. This movie really made men look like Neanderthal dumbasses and women as the one's who can get away with anything without any serious repercussions. Can you blame the guy for being pissed off when he finds out that Jean is a con artist and then decides to forget about her? Like the whole premise of the movie is pretty weird and twisted! They're basically glamorizing petty behavior and for women to go out and be charming little gold digging con artists. I liked the actors and the acting, but the themes and morals left a bad taste in my mouth. It just left me kind of confused as to what I just saw.

A slightly nonsensical screwball comedy where Barbara Stranwyck absolutely steals the show. She's very sassy and vivacious in her role(s) with the rest of the cast kind of limply hanging off her. Some rubbish slapstick and some soppy romance aside, the daft plot still just about works.

Good in a weird and distinctive way, if a bit aggravating at times. The relationship between Stanwyck's Jean and Fonda's Charles is bizarre. He's a naive and often oblivious timid aristocrat and she's a clever con artist; he falls for her experienced seduction and she for his simple charm. It initially makes the film seem off-balance given how in-control Jean is, though in time it's treated as a deliberate satire of the traditional power dynamic in rom-coms of the period, often featuring dominant men and unsure women. Overtly, it's a humorous depiction of the Biblical Eve narrative, where Stanwyck's fling with the pure Fonda results in his obtaining of "forbidden knowledge" and subsequent fall from grace as he literally stumbles through the rest of the film. Jean's initial greed mellows into affection, then vengeful distaste at being rebuffed, and ultimately into affection once more, but Stanwyck handles this conflicted-yet-intelligent antihero character perfectly. Sturges, in his dual role as writer-director, left room for some real comedy in the film as well, balancing between physical humor and gems like Charles' refusal to recognize Jean because the resemblance was TOO obvious (she would have changed something, right). There was clearly a ton of thought that went into the design of this film, and while I can't say that it's an unparalleled success at face value (often feeling frustrating, even if that was Sturges' intention; treating Fonda as a fool in his inability to recognize the "same dame" in the final minutes almost makes their relationship seem uncomfortably predatory), The Lady Eve remains an icon of the genre. (4/5)

Understandably a critics favourite, a comedy worth it's while, avoids stereotypes and humanises the 'femme fatale figure' as more than, well, a con artist and seducer of man. Despite many audience reviews, Jean is visibly upset, heartbroken, yet mans demise is in his hypocrisy, Henry Fonda's character of 'Charles' claims to be a forgiving man after the marriage to Eve but this is only said when his previous image of her is still majorly intact, very much reminiscent of the ending to Henrik Ibsen's play 'A Dolls House' - however this is a students perspective, there's no need to debate too long the morality of these characters due to it's genre. As a slapstick comedy it not only delivers in physical comedy but the literate within speech. Worth the watch, fun and easily digestible whilst maintaining certain mystery.

A hilarious movie, that I think you should watch at least once!

*watched movie twice* Barbara plays a confident, flirty, adorable "gold digger" looking for a mate. She's pretty and knows how to use her mid-drift area to attract. She travels with her card-shark father (who is a con-man, Stacks decks to win Henry's money) . Henry plays an adventurer, just boarded the ocean liner destination from Europe/Africa to New York City. He is average and very respectful towards men and women alike The scenery/background is absolutely wonderful; fancy dinners aboard cruise ship, cabins, Amazon opening scene, ocean. All in all, wonderful movie, great actors and straight up my alley with gambling, fancy clothes, and scenery.

This movie was low key terrible. The first half wasn't that bad, actually pretty entertaining, but then the plot went ridiculous. After Fonda's character finds out the girl was initially manipulating him, he rationally leaves her, himself broken hearted. Then Stanwyck's character proceeds to seek revenge on him, as if he was in the wrong, and continues to lie and manipulate him again, just to humiliate him even more. Which is the very thing that made him leave her in the first place. Then the movie proceeds to make Fonda's character unrealistically gullible, not even able to recognize her, as she continues to embarrass him. You can't help but just feel horribly sorry for the man, based on how really innocent and good of a man he is in the movie. Yet the girl never learns anything. And to top it off the ending makes him go straight back to her. The woman who broke his heart. When the movie ends you only feel sorry for the man, and wonder why he doesn't leave her broken hearted once more when he finds out how she had manipulated him once again. And yet the girl never learns anything but gets what she wants from her lies and manipulation and by playing with a man's heart. Terrible. Too bad, since it started out so well too.

A delightful screwball comedy from writer/director Preston Sturgis. Barbara Stanwyck plays a beautiful gold digger who sets her sights on wealthy Henry Fonda aboard a cruise ship saling from South America to New York. Here scheme gets complicated when she actually starts falling for him. Blessed with delicious dialogue and wonderful physical comedy, "The Lady Eve" is heaven sent. Barbara Stanwyck has never been better. She commands all her scenes and makes the audience fall in love with her, just like her tricked beau. Fonda is also at his best. Great supporting cast helps make this one of the best comedies from the early years of the golden era of cinema.

Lady Eve is an incredibly stupid film. I love a lot of films from the 1930s and 1940s, and like classic comedies like His Girl Friday,The Philadelphia Story, Adam and Eve, etc. But i don't understand the love for this film. There a couple of funny moments, and Stanwyck gives it her all, but Henry Fonda is terrible in it. I don't get how critics and viewers can enjoy a film that features such a stupid plot point, that Fonda's character is supposed to actually believe Stanwyck's character --who he already knew was a con artist -- is a different person simply because she adopts a British accent. Combine that with the sappy, almost instant falling in love aspect, and the entirely predictable ending and I just don't get the love for this film. Very disappointing.

It was a different time and a different culture, but according to this site, Director Preston Sturges never had a bad movie. Watching Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda duel it out was interesting, at least. This one is pretty light on story and high on screwball, but I'll take Bosley Crowther's word for it as being a great one.

A lot of fun because of its great cast.

I don't like handing out "best ever" platitudes, but I must say that Barbara Stanwyck's performance in The Lady Eve is one of the best ever. And, it isn't the chemistry she has with co-star Henry Fonda that most impresses me. It's the chemistry she has with writer-director Preston Sturges that sizzles.

Perfecta para verla con amigos que gusten del cine clàsico, pero no me convenciò personalmente.

Aaah…the timeless appeal of Barbara Stanwyck. What is it that makes her so innately watchable? She has a sex appeal that goes beyond her physical appearance as it is her confidence and wit that make her more than just your average femme fatale. Here she is matched by the brilliant Henry Fonda who plays off her outrageous come-ons with the nervous, repressed energy that he was so well known for. This film is one of those unimpeachable classics that stands alone as an example of why the romantic comedy genre is worth appreciating beyond the surface pleasures that it provides. We laugh and are emotionally touched by this film in equal measure as it is the rare film that blends these two feelings together successfully. Con woman Jean Harrington, Barbara Stanwyck, sets her sights on ale heir and ophidilogist Charles Poncefort Pike, Henry Fonda, as he returns from a long trip to the Amazon. She enchants him almost immediately and with the help of her manipulative father ‘Colonel' Harrington, Charles Coburn, she draws him into a game of poker. Pike eventually proposes to Harrington but discovers her deceptions through his dutiful servant Muggsy, William Demarest. Harrington has fallen in love with Pike by this time and is devastated by the fact that he has left her. In order to get revenge on him she pretends to be the posh Lady Eve Sidwich and seduces him yet again in her new persona despite Muggsy correctly suspecting her of being Harrington. Once Sidwich and Pike are married she reveals that she has had previous affairs and endeavors to make him dislike her so that he will reconcile with Harrington when he ‘coincidentally' meets her again. Her plan works to great effect and the two resume their relationship without Pike knowing about her lies. The most memorable scene in the film occurs when Stanwyck, who already has Fonda in her thrall, pulls him down to the floor, takes hold of his head, presses their faces up close to each other and begins running her fingers through his hair. This may be one of the most erotic scenes in cinema history and yet it contains nothing graphic or explicit. It is the delight that these two people take in one another's company and their undeniable attraction to one another despite their differences. Fonda gives himself over to Stanwyck completely and there is beauty in his lack of control as we have seen him holding all of the power in previous scenes. Stanwyck too can be seen to fall in love with him as the courtesy with which he treats her and his naked desire for her are appealing to a woman who has spent her life surrounded by men who lie, cheat and use her to get what they want. We understand why these two would be drawn to one another and in just a few minutes the film illustrates these facts perfectly. Only Stanwyck and Fonda could have played these roles as they feel as though they were written to fit them like a glove. Harrington fits all of the traits that we would come to associate with Stanwyck as she is confident, seductive and sharp tongued but there is a heart of gold lying behind her machinations that was not present in Double Indemnity (1944). While Stanwyck is wonderful in Ball of Fire (1941) she would have been even more deserving of an Academy Award nomination for this timeless, iconic performance. Although she is essential to the film's success she would struggle without a leading man who knows how to use restraint to show of all of the best aspects of his leading lady's performance. His expressions of bewilderment and confusion are some of the funniest I have seen in a long time and his droll delivery of dialogue accompanies the quick witted one liners of Stanwyck quite nicely. The rest of the cast get a chance to shine as well with Coburn putting in a typically decent performance as a controlling father and Demarest making the most of a few memorable lines. For anybody who loves cinema this is an absolute treasure as it is one of the finest examples of a well loved genre and pairs two of the greatest performers of all time at the height of their respective powers.