FILM ARCHIVES

The Lady Eve

by Jim Hoberman

August 17, 2011

Dir. Preston Sturges (1942).
The most soulful and possibly the greatest of Sturges comedies, contrives a shipboard romance between an ineffably knowing Barbara Stanwyck and an impossibly naïve Henry Fonda with hilarious consequences back on land.

Sat., Aug. 27, 5 p.m., 2011

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