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Screwball Film: The Lady Eve

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The Lady Eve is a screwball comedy film from the early 1940’s where one of the members of a trio card sharp group falls in love with the heiress of the Pike Ale fortune. This film is a part of a special category that was relent during the 1930s-1940s called Screwball Comedy where female characters where seen to be dominant over their male counterparts. In contrast to this film category, women were usually depicted as innocent, sweet, and submissive. These screwball comedy’s allowed women to break out of their social norms and have a voice, be dominant, and be comical. The main character, Jean, seems to be dominant over Charles Pike and challenges his masculinity. One of the symbols used during this film to illustrate this is Jean’s perfume;
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