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Top 5 Top 5 Lists Related To, But Not Including The Lady Eve

Top 5 Preston Sturges Films I Haven't Seen Yet:

1. Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen, 1940)
2. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges, 1944)
3. The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933)
4. Imitation of Life (John Stahl, 1934)
5. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940)


Top 5 Barbara Stanwyck Films:

1. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
2. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
3. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller, 1957)
4. Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, 1933)
5. Clash By Night (Fritz Lang, 1952)


Top 5 Henry Fonda Films Not Directed By John Ford:

1. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
2. The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman, 1943)
3. Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938)
4. Advise & Consent (Otto Preminger, 1962)
5. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)


Top 5 Henry Fonda Films Directed By John Ford:

1. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
2. My Darling Clementine (1946)
3. Fort Apache (1948)
4. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
5. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)


Top 5 Films of 1941:

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
4. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg)
5. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)

Links: The Lady Eve

James Harvey, author of the books Movie Love in the 50s and Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: from Lubitsch to Sturges, writes about The Lady Eve for Criterion.

Film Reference has an extensive bibliography on the film, along with a short essay by the late critic Robin Wood comparing it to, among other things, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

Peter Tonguette writes about Sturges and The Lady Eve for Senses of Cinema.

Finally, we have Roger Ebert's Great Movies review.

The 30 Greatest Preston Sturges Character Names

1. Trudy Kockenlocker (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek)
2. Luisa 'Lu" Ginglebuscher (The Good Fairy)
3. Judge Alfalfa J. O'Toole (The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend)
4. Wife of Wienie King (The Palm Beach Story)
5. Homer Quimby (The Great Moment)
6. Harold Diddlebock (The Sin of Harold Diddlebock)
7. Algernon McNiff (The Sin of Harold Diddlebock)
8. Jasper Hawkins (Never Say Die)
9. Dr. Zodiac Z. Zippe (Hotel Haywire)
10. Norval Jones (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek)


11. Sgt. Heppelfinger (Hail the Conquering Hero)
12. James R. Smoke (The Sin of Harold Diddlebock)
13. Hugo Standoff (Unfaithfully Yours)
14. E. J. Waggleberry (The Sin of Harold Diddlebock)
15. Dr. Max Sporum (The Good Fairy)
16. Charles Poncefort Pike (The Lady Eve)
17. The Princess Centimillia (The Palm Beach Story)
18. Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Hail the Conquering Hero)
19. Mr. Julius Hingleman (The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend)
20. Ursula Kornheiser (Sullivan's Travels)


21. Juno Marko (Never Say Die)
22. Mayor Wilfred T. Tillinghast (The Great McGinty)
23. Blackie Jobero (The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend)
24. Poppa Ingleborg (Never Say Die)
25. Maurice Schlapkohl (The Good Fairy)
26. Ambrose 'Muggsy' Murgatroyd (The Lady Eve)
27. Mr. Johnny Valdelle (Sullivan's Travels)
28. Mayor Everett D. Noble (Hail the Conquering Hero)
29. Formfit Franklin (The Sin of Harold Diddlebock)
30. John D. Hackensacker III (The Palm Beach Story)

Coming Attractions: The Lady Eve

Wednesday, March 3rd at 7 & 9 PM

Giveaways: Sullivan's Travels DVD courtesy of Scarecrow Video and a gift certificate to Cinema Books respectively.

See you there!