Posted on 04/23/2019 11:01:03 AM PDT by simpson96
The Lady Eve is a 1941 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges which stars Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. The film is based on a story by Monckton Hoffe about a mismatched couple who meet on board an ocean liner.
Jean Harrington is a beautiful con artist. Along with her equally larcenous father, "Colonel" Harrington, and his partner Gerald, she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike, the heir to the Pike Ale fortune, "The Ale That Won for Yale". Charles is a woman-shy snake expert Ophidiologist, just returning from a year-long expedition up the Amazon. Though surrounded by ladies desperate for his attention, Charles is putty in Jean's hands. But even the best laid plans can go astray.
The Lady Eve (1941) - Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda
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it was a pretty funny movie- never was a fan of stanwyk or fonda- but this m ovie was pretty funny-
It sounds like fun...I wonder why I never heard of it!
Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model, and dancer. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short, but notable, career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.
Orphaned at the age of four, and partially raised in foster homes, by 1944, Stanwyck had become the highest-paid woman in the United States. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress four times – for Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). For her television work, she won three Emmy Awards – for The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961), The Big Valley (1966), and The Thorn Birds (1983). Her performance in The Thorn Birds also won her a Golden Globe.
She received an Honorary Oscar at the 1982 Academy Award ceremony, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986. She was also the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the American Film Institute (1987), the Film Society of Lincoln Center (1986), the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (1981), and the Screen Actors Guild (1967). Stanwyck received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, and was ranked as the 11th greatest female star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute.[1] One of her directors, Jacques Tourneur, said of Stanwyck, “She only lives for two things, and both of them are work.”[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Stanwyck
I never knew anything about her. She was quite a accomplished.
She was quite accomplished.
I was never much a fan of Barbara Stanwyck until after reading about her screwed up childhood. I have to admire her for how she turned out after such catastrofies in her life.
Oh I admire her accomplishments, but still didn’t like her as an actress much- It was just something about her acting that i didn’t care for- can’t quite put my finger on what it was- To me, some actors and actresses just had ‘it’- but I dunno- maybe I felt she overacted just a bit too much or tried too hard to be ‘it’ or something- not quite sure what it was-
It’s hard to imagine Henry Fonda in a screwball comedy, but there he was. His later roles always seemed more serious.
Cary Grant, I could easily see moving from comedy into drama, throughout his career.
No sound required. That’s a terrific gif.
I never liked her. She seemed too self-conscious...and even worse in later years of her career
It always looked like she was trying to speak without moving her lips.
. Interesting aside and someone 'names names'....
New list for the Libs to Blackball...
(Bet she liked Kate Smith too) HA HA
Political views
Stanwyck opposed the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She felt that if someone from her disadvantaged background had risen to success, others should be able to prosper without government intervention or assistance.[61] For Stanwyck, indisputably, "hard work with the prospect of rich reward was the American way". Stanwyck became an early member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA) after its founding in 1944. The mission of this group was to "... combat ... subversive methods [used in the industry] to undermine and change the American way of life." [62][63] It opposed both communist and fascist influences in Hollywood. She publicly supported the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee, her husband Robert Taylor appearing to testify as a friendly witness.[64] Stanwyck shared conservative Republican affiliation with such contemporaries as Mary Pickford, Walt Disney, Hedda Hopper, Randolph Scott, Robert Young, Ward Bond, William Holden, Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Stewart, George Murphy, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, John Wayne, Walter Brennan, Shirley Temple, Bob Hope, Adolphe Menjou, Helen Hayes, director Frank Capra, and her Double Indemnity co-star, Fred MacMurray.[65][66]
She was a fan of Objectivist author Ayn Rand, having persuaded Jack L. Warner at Warner Bros. to buy the rights to The Fountainhead before it was a best-seller, and writing to the author of her admiration of Atlas Shrugged.[61][67]
Religion
Stanwyck was originally a Protestant, and was baptized in June 1916 by the Reverend J. Frederic Berg of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church.[68] She later converted to Roman Catholicism when she married her first husband, Frank Fay.[69]
Long time Babs Stanwyck fan.
Interesting. Thanks, xrmusn!
I didn’t read the whole wiki piece - I should have! More reasons to like her.
And then there was drama-comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace, the funniest thing I ever saw in my life.
One of my favorite scenes in the movies!
“And the night will be heavy with perfume.”
I think Stanwyck was one of the best and now that I know what her principles were, I like her even more.
My favorite “Christmas in Connecticut.”
I’m a longtime fan as well, she was always one of my favorites. She was a great actress.
One of her best.
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