In the English-speaking world it was Sir Albert Howard who worked extensively in India on sustainable practices and Lady Eve Balfour who was a huge proponent of composting.

* The Lady Eve ( 1941 )

By contrast, when lower-class people attempt to pass themselves off as upper-class, they are able to do so with relative ease ( The Lady Eve, My Man Godfrey ).

Slapstick elements are also frequently present ( such as the numerous pratfalls Henry Fonda takes in The Lady Eve ).

The philosopher Stanley Cavell has noted that many classic screwball comedies turn on an interlude in the state of Connecticut ( Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve, The Awful Truth ).

* The Lady Eve ( 1941 ), d. Preston Sturges

The plot of Corrupting Dr. Nice, a science fiction novel by John Kessel involving time travel, is modeled on films such as The Lady Eve and Bringing up Baby.

", The Big Sleep directed by Howard Hawks ( 1946 ), The Lady Eve directed by Preston Sturges ( 1941 ), The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch ( 1940 ), White Heat directed by Raoul Walsh ( 1949 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ( 1946 ).

Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve ( 1941 )

He then played opposite Barbara Stanwyck in Preston Sturges ' The Lady Eve ( 1941 ), and again teamed with Tierney in the successful screwball comedy Rings on Her Fingers ( 1942 ).

Later songs-including " Hello Darkness " ( 1970 ), " Shocking You ", " Blossom Lady " and " Out of Sight, Out of Mind " ( 1971 ), " Inkpot ", " Rock in the Sea " and " Eve and the Apple " ( 1972 ) and " Oh Lord " ( 1973 ) were successful in Europe, Latin America and Asia, but failed to chart in the U. S ..

Rodale in the United States, Lady Eve Balfour in the United Kingdom, and many others across the world.

Eric Blore had appeared in The Lady Eve and Porter Hall would go on to appear in three other Sturges films: The Great Moment, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Sturges's last American film.

Sullivan's Travels was not as immediately successful at the box office as earlier Sturges films such as The Great McGinty and The Lady Eve, and also received a mixed critical reception.

The Lady Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

In 1994, The Lady Eve was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Furious at being scorned, she re-enters his life masquerading as the posh " Lady Eve Sidwich ", niece of Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith ( Eric Blore ), another con man who's been swindling the rich folk of Connecticut.

Henry Fonda from a trailer for The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve was loosely based in a 19-page story by Monckton Hoffe called " Two Bad Hats ", which was also the working title for the film.

The casting of the lead roles for The Lady Eve went through some changes.

Barbara Stanwyck from a trailer for The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve was in production from October 21 to December 5, 1940.

After The Lady Eve premiered at the Rialto, The New York Times reviewer, Bosley Crowther characterized the film as " a sparkling romantic comedy.

" In a later review, Roger Ebert solidified the status of the film, " If I were asked to name the single scene in all of romantic comedy that was sexiest and funniest at the same time, I would advise beginning at six seconds past the 20-minute mark in Preston Sturges's " The Lady Eve '.

The President was even more generous with the First Lady than he had been before the tragedy.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

But she was afraid the First Lady would not understand, because Rob Roy was a perfect angel with the First Family.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

It was no longer fashionable to be seen with fabulous `` Lady Harrington ''.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

A 62-year-old Smithfield man, Lester E. Stone of 19 Beverly Circle, was in satisfactory condition last night at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, North Providence, with injuries suffered when a car he was driving struck a utility pole on Woonasquatucket Avenue in North Providence near Stevens Street.

It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.

One of the most interested `` students '' on the tour which the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

Deemed too static when it was first heard in `` Lady Be Good '' in Philadelphia in 1924, it was dropped from the score.

Lady Da smiled at him often, but there was no love in this place.

The Lady Da, naked in the dusty plain, waved a hospitable hand and showed that there was a place for him to sit beside her.

Time stood still for these people, and their load of pleasure was so commingled with the shocks and pains of the dromozoa that the words of the Lady Da took on very remote meaning.

In around 1390, the Carmelite Monastery of Our Lady of Abensberg was founded by Count John II and his wife, Agnes.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.

The company went bankrupt in 1924 and was bought by Lady Charnwood, who put her son John Benson on the board.

The " Justice fountain " ( Gerechtskeitbrunnen ) was built in 1634, and is made of French limestone ; it includes a statue of Lady Justice made of sandstone, hence the name.

Al-Mutarrif's sister, known as al-Sayyida (" the Lady "), was entrusted with his education.

Before finishing the musical, Lerner was eager to write while My Fair Lady was taking so long to complete.