Saw for the first time "The Lady Eve," Barbara Stanwyk, Henry Fonda,
1941, written/directed by Preston Sturges. As people have said, it'd
be hard to write a better screenplay. Hasn't gotten dated in one
syllable in the 66 years since it first showed, or at least not to my
ear. Fonda's the fabulously wealthy son of an Ale King and,
uninterested in learning the ale business, a jungle-searching bachelor
(highly elgible, obviously) snake collector (or better, Serpent
collector) who spends months "up the Amazon" as in River--Sturges has
a wild, wild sense of humor--and pretty much a straight man, the First
Man (Adam) to the lady, Eve, in this masterpiece with its first scene/
Ending Edenic echoes. I bring it up because it's a series of cons with
a light touch (Charles Coburn, Stanwyk's father, is the Senior Con
Artist of this one and Stanwyk the Daughter Con Artist and, though
svelte as you know, definitely Amazonian in her conning powers) and
Stanwyk reminds me of Carole Thorne and of Joan Van A in "Every Port"
and the Unwicked Witch of Guilt in the "Guilt" ep and some of the
other TRF versions of Woman, though she's a fuller study since she
gets to strut Her (and all the Hers ever) stuff throughout. It's
almost a female chauvinist masterpiece, but it's too telling for that.
Given the wonderful writing with the great dialog, the light touch, ...

On Apr 26, 10:41?pm, "Adam H. Kerman" chinet.com> wrote:

Haven't seen "Miracle of Morgan's Creek," but after your post I
ordered it via Netflix as next in the queue. Many thanks. Can't wait
to see it.

AlbertClarkson wrote: