The Lady Eve

Conwoman Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) is on a cruise chip looking for a suitable mark to swindle, and she finds a doozy in Hopsie Pike (Henry Fonda), the naive but single and very eligible heir to an ale fortune.  But Jean makes the mistake of falling for the stooge, and when Hopsie finds out who she is and dumps her, she's going to take her revenge -  by pretending to be Lady Eve Sidwich and conning him all over again.  One of the pinnacles of screwball comedy, directed by the king Preston Sturges. Sublime!

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