Abstract
T _HIS ACCOUNT of my experience of Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve is shaped around two claims. The first claim is that this film is one of six or seven main films constituting a genre of Hollywood talkies of thirties and forties. I shall call genre the comedy of remarriage. Its other main instances are It Happened One Night, His Girl Friday, The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, and Adam's Rib; and I will also, for reasons given elsewhere,1 feel free to include Bringing Up Baby. I am for myself satisfied that this group of films constitutes principal group of Hollywood comedies after advent of sound and therewith one definitive achievement in
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