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I'm not usually a huge fan of Barbara Stanwyck's, but this movie kept coming up in lists of classics, so I decided to ignore her as best as I could while still following the plot. Okay, maybe I just watched the movie anyway. It's a romantic comedy that starts out on a ship. Stanwyck plays Jean, who makes a living with her father (Charles Coburn) as a con artist. They spot Charles (Henry Fonda), who belongs to a rich brewing family and decide to con him. The father goes after money in poker games. The daughter goes after the whole fortune by pursuing Charles as a love interest.

Charles must strike Jean as an honest and good guy, because she instantly falls for him, which complicates the con job. She really wants to marry Hopsie (her nickname for Charles), but when he finds out who she really is, he dumps her. From this point on, Jean sets out to enter Charles' home life as Eve - a lady who happens to look just like Jean. Will Eve fall in love with Charles too, or break his heart?

The movie plays out rather undramatically but has a good amount of charm, thanks to actors like Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, and my favorite supporting actors, Williaim Demarest and Eric Blore. Fonda uses a good amount of natural physical comedy, and his honest response to everything he encounters is what gives the movie its heart. I never quite bought the love story, but I bought Hopsie.

I'm not sure this is a movie I would watch repeatedly, but it was a pleasant hour and a half.