The Lady Eve (1941) |
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The Lady Eve Cast |
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Barbara Stanwyck
(as Jean Harrington)
with Henry Fonda
(as Charles Pike)
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Other InformationPlot SummaryReturning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. To get back at him, Jean disguises... (www.imdb.com/title/tt0033804/plotsummary) TaglineParamount`s vexiest picture! When you deal a fast shuffle... Love is in the cards. Another Preston Sturges Hit! Barbara Stanwyck has Henry Fonda Bewitched and Bewildered Positively the funniest love and laugh show of 1941! Positively the richest entertainment you`ll give your patrons in a long time! Eve Sure Knows Her Apples ! Related MoviesThe Hudsucker Proxy [Spoofed in] (Year of movie: 1994) Sex at 24 Frames Per Second [Featured in] (Year of movie: 2003) AFI`s 100 Years... 100 Passions [Featured in] (Year of movie: 2002) 100 Years of Comedy [Featured in] (Year of movie: 1997) Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire [Featured in] (Year of movie: 1991) "American Masters: Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer" [Featured in] (Year of movie: 1989) Precious Images [Featured in] (Year of movie: 1986) The 54th Annual Academy Awards [Featured in] (Year of movie: 1982) The Holiday [Referenced in] (Year of movie: 2006) "ER: Somebody to Love (#13.3)" [Referenced in] (Year of movie: 2006) AFI`s 100 Years, 100 Laughs: America`s Funniest Movies [Featured in] (Year of movie: 2000) Fonda on Fonda [Featured in] (Year of movie: 1992) The Party [Referenced in] (Year of movie: 1968) The Birds and the Bees [Remade as] (Year of movie: 1956) DiscographySinglesPilgrims Chorus [1845] Blaydon Races Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl Thunderstorm Music Cocktails for Two Lover With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair Isn`t It Romantic |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Charles Pike: Now you, on the other hand, with a little coaching you could be terrific
[at playing cards]
Charles Pike: .
Jean Harrington: Do you really think so?
Charles Pike: Yes, you have a definite nose.
Jean Harrington: I`m glad you like it. Do you like any of the rest of me? Gerald: Want the strippers on the right?
"Colonel" Harrington: I hardly need them, Gerald. Jean Harrington: [while observing Charles Pike from her pocket mirror] Not good enough... I said they`re not good enough for him. Every Jane in the room is giving him the thermometer and he feels they`re just a waste of time. He`s returning to his book, he`s deeply immersed in it. He sees no one except - watch his head turn when that kid goes by. Won`t do you any good, dear, he`s a bookworm, but swing `em anyway. Oh, now how about this one. How would you like that hanging on your Christmas tree? Oh you wouldn`t? Well, what is your weakness, brother? Holy smoke, the dropped kerchief! That hasn`t been used since Lily Langtry. You`ll have to pick it up yourself, madam. It`s a shame, but he doesn`t care for the flesh. He`ll never see it. Look at that girl over to his left. Look over to your left, bookworm. There`s a girl pining for ya. A little further. Just a little further... There! Wasn`t that worth looking for? See those nice store teeth all beaming at you. Oh, she recognizes you! She`s up, she`s down, she can`t make up her mind. She`s up again. She recognizes you! She`s coming over to speak to you. The suspense is killing me. "Why, for heaven`s sake, aren`t you Fuzzy Oathammer I went to manual training school with in Louisville? Oh you`re not? Well, you certainly look exactly like him, it`s certainly a remarkable resemblance... But if you`re not going to ask me to sit down, I suppose you`re not going to ask me to sit down... I`m very sorry, I certainly hope I haven`t caused you any embarrassment, you so and so." "I wonder if my tie`s on straight. I certainly upset them, don`t I? Now who else is after me?" Ah, the lady champion wrestler, wouldn`t she make a houseful? Oh, you don`t like her either. Well, what are you going to do about her? Oh, you just can`t stand it anymore, you`re leaving. These women don`t give you a moment`s peace, do they? Well, go ahead! Go sulk in your cabin. Go soak your head and see if I care! Charles Pike: I`m married.
Jean Harrington: But so am I, darling. So am I. Gerald: I can`t understand how the horse ran fifth!
Jean Harrington: There were only five horses in the race.
Charles Pike: A girl of sixteen is practically an idiot anyway, so I can`t very well blame you for something that was practically done by somebody else. Jean Harrington: They say a moonlit deck is a woman`s business office.
Steward: Six more Pike`s Pale. Make it snappy.
Ship`s Bartender: What are you trying to do, embarrass me? We`re all out of Pike`s Pale. Work `em over to something else!
Steward,: They don`t want nothing else. They want "the Ale that won for Yale." Rah, rah, rah.
Ship`s Bartender: Well, tell `em to go to Harvard. Steward: Breakfast, sir?
Charles: What`d you say?
Steward: I said, "Breakfast, sir?"
Charles: Two scotch and sodas with plain water.
Jean Harrington: Don`t you take cream and sugar?
Charles: No, I always take it black.
[pause]
Charles: Say, what am I talking about?
Jean Harrington: That`s what I was wondering.
Steward: How about a nice bicarbonate of soda with an egg in it? It does wonders! Jean Harrington: What were you doing up the Amazon?
Charles Pike: Looking for snakes. I`m an ophiologist.
Jean Harrington: I thought you were in the beer business.
Charles Pike: Beer? *Ale!*
Jean Harrington: What`s the difference?
Charles Pike: Between beer and ale?
Jean Harrington: Yes.
Charles Pike: My father`d burst a blood vessel if he heard you say that. There`s a big difference. Ale`s sort of fermented on the top or something, and beer`s fermented on the bottom, or maybe it`s the other way around. There`s no similarity at all. You see, the trouble with being descended from a brewer, no matter how long ago he brewered, or whatever you call it, you`re supposed to know all about something you don`t give a hoot about. Charles Pike: Snakes are my life, in a way.
Jean Harrington: What a life! Stewart: Good morning, sir. Fruit, cereal, bacon and egg, egg and sausage, sausage and hot cake, hot cake and ham, ham and egg, egg and bacon, bacon and...
Muggsy: Give me a spoonful of milk, a raw pigeon`s egg, and four houseflies. If you can`t catch any, I`ll settle for a cockroach. Jean Harrington: I need him like the ax needs the turkey. Jean Harrington: I don`t see why I have to do all the dirty work. There must be plenty of rich old dames waiting for you to push them around.
"Colonel" Harrington: You find them, I`ll push them. Jean Harrington: See anything you like?
Jean Harrington: Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
"Colonel" Harrington: Don`t be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common. Jean Harrington: You know Charles?
Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith: Oh, is he the tall backwards boy always toying with toads and things? Yes, I think I have seen him skulking about.
Jean Harrington: He`s not backwards. He`s a scientist.
Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith: Oh is that what it is? I knew he was, mm... peculiar. Charles Pike: What I am trying to say is: I`m not a poet, I`m an ophiologist. Jean Harrington: You see Hopsi, you don`t know very much about girls. The best ones aren`t as good as you think they are and the bad ones aren`t as bad. Not nearly as bad. Charles Pike: You`re certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who`s just been up the Amazon for a year.
Jean Harrington: Good thing you weren`t up there two years. Charles Pike: You ought to put handles on that skull. Maybe you could grow geraniums in it.Trivia One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since. When Muggsy places a brush over his face and imitates Hitler, he is really speaking Swedish. Directly translated he is saying: "Bad boy I`m going to hit you on the jaw".
The check that that Henry Fonda`s character, Charles Pike, writes to Charles Coburn, playing "Colonel" Harrington, is dated August 29. August 29th is director Preston Sturges` birthday. It was hibernation season during the shoot so Emma the king snake was always sleeping while also shedding her skin. Needless to say, she was very uncooperative. Preston Sturges wrote the script in Reno, Nevada, while awaiting his third divorce. This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1994. At the beginning Henry Fonda makes references to the help of a "Professor Marsdit". Raymond L. Ditmars of the AMNH at the time was the best-known reptile expert in the country, the kind of popularizer that Carl Sagan later became. | ||
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