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The Lady Eve (1941)

Directed by Preston Sturges · Cinematography by Victor Milner

Approved94 min58 frames

ComedyRomance

When you deal a fast shuffle, love is in the cards.

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What is The Lady Eve about?

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

The Lady Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. The film is based on a story by Monckton Hoffe about a mismatched couple who meet on board an ocean liner. Regarded amongst the greatest films of all time, The Lady Eve was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994 by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

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What does the cinematography of The Lady Eve look like?

Sampled across 58 frames, the coverage of The Lady Eve leans heavily on medium shots (71% of the sample). Cinematographer Victor Milner keeps 41% of it in soft, high-key light. Night and dusk account for 64% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 69% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.

What is the color palette of The Lady Eve?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Lady Eve (1941) are #050505, #898989, #c9c9c9, #f9f9f9, #454545, #2d2d2d — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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