The Lady Eve

Introduction and comments following The Lady Eve, 1941, from Dennis Miller and friend Rita Wilson.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Lady Eve, 1941.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lady Eve, 1941.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lady Eve, 1941.

Dave Karger introduces The Lady Eve, 1941.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lady Eve, 1941.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lady Eve, 1941.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lady Eve, 1941.

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Promo for TCM's The Essentials, this week featuring host Alec Baldwin and guest Tina Fey, on The Lady Eve, 1941, at 8pm ET on Saturday, July 2nd.

Con artist Barbara Stanwyck, now assuming title role, appears at the Hamptons home of beer baron Pike (Eugene Pallette), intent on getting even with his scientist son Charles (Henry Fonda), who presumes she's just a look-alike for the gal he fell for on the cruise ship, in Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve, 1941.

Cardsharp Eugenia (or "Jean," Barbara Stanwyck) with a dazzling commentary and nifty shooting by writer-director Preston Sturges, observing ale heir Charles Pike (Henry Fonda) on his first evening in the ship's dining room, in The Lady Eve, 1941.

Shipboard gambler "Colonel" Harrington (Charles Coburn) persists in his plan to fleece heir Charles (Henry Fonda) even as he asks permission to marry daughter Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) in Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve, 1941.

Having fled to her cabin after an encounter with his specimen, Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) regains her composure and resumes her capture of ale heir Charles (Henry Fonda) in Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve, 1941.

Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) intrudes on her father and fellow card-sharp Harry (Charles Coburn), with aide Gerald (Melville Cooper) with news that she's in love with their mark, in Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve, 1941.

Lady card shark Barbara Stanwyck tries to con Henry Fonda, heir to the Pale Ale fortune, only to fall for him in Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve (1941).