Double indemnity

The Lady Eve

(1941)

Barbara Stanwyck as the same dame, Henry Fonda as the priggish snake lover, and a half-dozen of the best character actors in a nearly perfect screwball comedy, written and directed by Preston Sturges.

As a kid, I knew Stanwyck only from The Big Valley, and I didn't take her seriously. But seriously, she makes sexy funny and vice versa about as well as any star of her generation.