The Lady Eve (1941) — Preston Sturges’s Sleight of Hand There are some movies you come back to again and again, and each time they reveal something new. Preston Sturges’s The Lady Eve is one of those films. I’ve watched it more times than I can count, and what amazes me is how fresh it feels, how sharp, how alive. Sturges was a writer first. That’s important to remember. He had this gift — dialogue that moved like music, fast, syncopated, perfectly timed. And then he did something very unusual f