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| | New York State Writers Institute - The Lady Eve Film Notes |
 | | The Lady Eve is broken into two acts, each with its own climactic episode, and prefaced by a goofy, year-up-the-Amazon prologue that sets the antic tone for the whole film. |
 | | It's hard to believe, but at the same time she was making The Lady Eve, Stanwyck was making the hilarious Ball of Fire with Howard Hawks, and the deeply tragic Meet John Doe with Frank Capra; quite a year, but then, Barbara Stanwyck was quite an actress. |
 | | The war would soon foreclose on the magnanimous comedic impulses of the screwball comedy; in The Lady Eve, we hear that, because of the war, the cruise ships have stopped running, and the Lady in question has required transportation in a battleship (or is it a submarine?). |
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