The Lady Eve
“When you deal a fast shuffle, love is in the cards.”
1941 · 1 h 34 min
Directed by 
Preston Sturges
Preston SturgesCast
Barbara Stanwyck 
Henry Fonda 
Charles Coburn
Credits
Written by: Monckton Hoffe
Plot
A con woman sets out to fleece a shy heir to a brewing fortune and falls for him.
Sinekatalog’s take
Preston Sturges's screwball romance has Barbara Stanwyck's con artist target Henry Fonda's naive heir, then reappear in disguise. Quick, sexy and clever, it is one of the genre's best.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (25,817 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
If you liked this
Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 · Howard Hawks · IMDb 7.1 · Viewers also liked
- The Palm Beach Story 1942 · Preston Sturges · IMDb 7.4 · Same director
- Lover Come Back 1961 · Delbert Mann · IMDb 7.1 · Viewers also liked
- Ball of Fire 1941 · Howard Hawks · IMDb 7.7 · Same movement
- Christmas in July 1940 · Preston Sturges · IMDb 7.3 · Same director
- The Philadelphia Story 1940 · George Cukor · IMDb 7.8 · Same movement