The lady Eve [videorecording] / a Paramount picture ; produced by Paul Jones ; written and directed by Preston Sturges.
Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2001.
ISBN: 1559409142
Description: 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Series: The Criterion collection ; 103
Subject: Man-woman relationships Drama.
Swindlers and swindling Drama.
Impostors and imposture Drama.
Deception Drama.
Fathers and daughters Drama.
Comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Comedy films. lcsh
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcsh
Comedy films. gsafd
Feature films. lcgft
Feature films United States. local
Screwball comedy films. lcgft
Comedy films. lcgft
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcgft
Comedy Feature. migfg
Other titles: Lux radio theatre (Radio program).
Credits: Cinematography, Victor Milner ; editing, Stuart Gilmore ; musical direction, Sigmund Krumgold.
Performers: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, Melville Cooper, Martha O'Driscoll, Janet Beecher.
Target Audience: Not rated.
Notes: English subtitles.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1941.
Includes commentary by Marian Keane and the 1942 Lux radio theater adaptation (Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland).
Summary: A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naìˆve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
