The Lady Eve - Movie Reviews (2024)

The Lady Eve Reviews

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George Orwell Time and Tide

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.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2023

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Dennis Harvey 48 Hills

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

Full Review | Jul 31, 2023

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Brian Susbielles InSession Film

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

Full Review | Mar 7, 2023

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Zita Short InSession Film

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.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2023

The sexiest comedy in many a day.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Otis Ferguson The New Republic

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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Ida Belle Hicks Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Herbert Cohn Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Frank Morriss Winnipeg Free Press

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

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Ruth Lewis Austin American-Statesman

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

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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H. Viggo Andersen Hartford Courant

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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Mildred Martin Philadelphia Inquirer

[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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Kate Cameron New York Daily News

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.

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

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Donald Kirkley Baltimore Sun

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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Ardis Smith Buffalo News

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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Len G. Shaw Detroit Free Press

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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Virginia Wright Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)

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

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Marion Aitchison Tampa Bay Times

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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Kevin Wallace San Francisco Examiner

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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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Bob Fredericks Miami Herald

If there ever was a movie that might be described as delightful, this is one. It's a picture with a lift in every sequence and a buzz in every character -- a lavish farce that sparkles with romance, excitement and riotous comedy.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2022

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