The Latin American look Edith Head used for Barbara Stanwyck during the film's first third, when Jean Harrington is traveling on an ocean liner from South America, inspired a fashion craze in the U.S.

Director Howard Hawks borrowed a visual gag from The Lady Eve later that year for his comedy Ball of Fire (1941). He featured a scene between stripper Barbara Stanwyck and college professor Gary Cooper where the latter takes hold of her bare foot, just as Henry Fonda had done with Stanwyck in the earlier film.

When The Lady Eve proved a hit, Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures signed Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda to team for another comedy, You Belong to Me (1941).

Writer Mary Orr was so impressed with The Lady Eve that she combined the leading lady's two names for the central character of her short story "The Wisdom of Eve." The story would reach the screen in 1950 as All About Eve, with Anne Baxter as the scheming understudy Eve Harrington.

Paramount remade The Lady Eve as The Birds and the Bees in 1956. The film starred television comic George Gobel, musical star Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven. Stanwyck refused an invitation to attend the premiere. The film was not a success with critics or the movie-going public.

The Lady Eve was not the first or last time Barbara Stanwyck played a gambler on screen. She also appeared in Gambling Lady (1934) opposite Joel McCrea (who would go on to star in Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story, 1942) and The Lady Gambles (1949) opposite Robert Preston.

by Frank Miller