The lady Eve

Resource Information

The work The lady Eve represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The lady Eve

Statement of responsibility

Paramount Pictures ; produced by Paul Jones ; written and directed by Preston Sturges

Contributor

• Sturges, Preston.
• O'Driscoll, Martha, 1922-1998
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Demarest, William.
• Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982.
• Jones, Paul, 1901-1968.
• Paramount Pictures, inc
• Pallette, Eugene, 1889-1954.
• Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990.

Actor

• Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990.
• Demarest, William.
• Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982.
• O'Driscoll, Martha, 1922-1998
• Pallette, Eugene, 1889-1954.

Film director

• Sturges, Preston.

Film distributor

• Criterion Collection (Firm)

Film producer

• Jones, Paul, 1901-1968.

Production company

• Paramount Pictures, inc

Screenwriter

• Sturges, Preston.

Subject

• Millionaires -- Fiction
• Screwball comedy films
• Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Black and white films
• Feature films
• Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
• Deception -- Fiction
• Comedy films
• Impostors and imposture -- Fiction
• Card players -- Fiction
• Man-woman relationships -- Fiction

Genre

• Screwball comedy films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Comedy films
• Fiction
• Black and white films
• Feature films

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naïve 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

Member of

• Criterion collection, 103

Cataloging source

CaOWLBI

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Photography, Victor Milner ; art directors, Hans Dreier, Ernest Fegte ; editor, Stuart Gilmore ; music, Leo Shuken, Charles Bradshaw

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Language note

In English with English subtitles ; English SDH

PerformerNote

Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, Martha O'Driscoll, William Demarest

Runtime

93

Series statement

Criterion collection

Series volume

103

Target audience

general

Technique

live action