The lady Eve

DVD 2001

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.

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Comedy films

Deception Drama

Fathers and daughters Drama

Impostors and imposture Drama

Man-woman relationships Drama

Swindlers and swindling Drama

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Drama Feature films Fiction films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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ISBN:

9781559409148
1559409142

Description:

1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
monochrome
digital
optical
mono
videodisc
Laser optical
video file

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Other Title:

Lux radio theatre (Radio program)

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1941
Based on a story by Monckton Hoffe
Introduction by Peter Bogdanovich
Includes commentary by Marian Keane and the 1942 Lux radio theater adaptation (Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland)
Cinematography, Victor Milner ; editing, Stuart Gilmore ; musical direction, Sigmund Krumgold
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, Melville Cooper, Martha O'Driscoll, Janet Beecher
DVD, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monophonic
English subtitles
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
National Film Registry, 1994

Control Number:

2816376

UPC:

715515011624

Other Authors:

Beecher, Janet
Blore, Eric, 1887-1959
Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022
Coburn, Charles
Cooper, Melville, 1896-1973
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Demarest, William
Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982
Gilmore, Stuart, 1913-1971
Hoffe, Monckton, 1880-1951
Jones, Paul, 1901-1968
Keane, Marian
Krumgold, Sigmund
Milner, Victor, 1893-1972
O'Driscoll, Martha, 1922-1998
Pallette, Eugene, 1889-1954
Paramount Pictures, Inc
Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990
Sturges, Preston

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