The Lady Eve (1941)
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.
Comedy, Romance
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 Chef
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