The Lady Eve
When you deal a fast shuffle, love is in the cards.
7.3
415 votes
February 25, 1941
1h 37m
Comedy
Romance
Overview
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Cast
Barbara Stanwyck
Jean Harrington
Henry Fonda
Charles Pike
Charles Coburn
'Colonel' Harrington
Eugene Pallette
Horace Pike
William Demarest
Muggsy
Eric Blore
Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith
Melville Cooper
Gerald
Martha O'Driscoll
Martha
Janet Beecher
Janet Pike
Robert Greig
Burrows
Dora Clement
Gertrude
Luis Alberni
Emile, Pike's ChefA
Abdullah Abbas
Man with Potted Palm (uncredited)N
Norman Ainsley
Sir Alfred's Servant (uncredited)
Mary Akin
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