The Lady Eve

 Henry Fonda (Charlie Pike)  and Barbara Stanwyck (Jean/Eve) star in the Romantic Comedy about a dim witted naive air to the Pike Ale fortune and a beautiful card sharp that travels with her father, "Colonel Harrington" and their compainion Gerald. Pike, along with his body guard, Muggsy just return from a year in the Amazon, where Charlie leaves with an exotic snake (his passion is snakes). Charlie and Muggsy have the ocean liner stop in the middle of the ocean  to have them board, sparking speculation about how rich he must be. After Gerald investigates, Jean gets Charlie's attention by tripping him on the way out of the dinning room, and has him bring her back to her room to replace her broken shoes. Jean actually falls in love with Charlie and keeps her father and partner from conning him.Muggsy, being ever suspicious, finds out about Jean being a con woman and has the purser show Charlie a picture with all the information typed on the back. Charlie is so upset that he breaks off his engagement to Jean.

Upon leaving the ocean liner, Jean finds out that her father kept the 32 thousand dollar check that he conned Charlie out of. After running into another old partner, "Sir Alfred" who has been conning the rich of CT for some time, Jean decides to join him and shows up at Charlie's home as "Lady Eve". He thinks she is the same person, but is not sure and keeps tripping and falling into things, causing him to need to change clothes three times in one evening. "Lady Eve" eventually has Charlie fall in love with her and they marry. On their honeymoon train ride, she starts to confess and names quite a few ex boyfriends and part lovers and Charlie jumps off the train. "Lady Eve" only wants Charlie to end the marriage to her face, but he refuses. Once she finds out he is on another ocean liner, she and her father get on that ocean liner and she trips Charlie the same way she did the first time. They go back to her room, and he confesses that he is married and she said that's alright darling, so am I.

The movie was a little predictable, and no one could ever be as stupid/gullible as Charlie.  William Demarest was great as Muggsy.