one of the best 1,000 by The New York Times. In 2012, the film ranked #110 on Sight and Sound'''s critics' poll and #174 on the directors' poll as selected by the British Film Institute. The Lady Eve was listed by Time magazine as one of the All-TIME 100 Movies. The film ranked 59th on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 100 greatest films of all time. FilmSite.org, a subsidiary of American Movie Classics, placed The Lady Eve on its list of the 100 greatest films. Films101.com ranked the film as the 97th best film of all time.The Lady Eve appears on two of the American Film Institute's lists and was nominated for several others: 1998: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – Nominated 2000: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs - #55 2002: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions - #26 2005: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes: Jean Harrington: "I need him like the axe needs the turkey." – Nominated 2007: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – Nominated 2008: AFI's 10 Top 10: Nominated Romantic Comedy Film The Writers Guild of America ranked its screenplay as the 52nd best ever written. Influences In 1956, the plot of The Lady Eve was recycled for the film The Birds and the Bees starring George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven. Preston Sturges received a co-writer credit for the film, although he did not actually participate in the project. The plot was also employed as the model for Corrupting Dr. Nice, a 1997 science fiction novel by John Kessel involving time travel. Barbara Stanwyck's Jean Harrington was one of the key reference points James Mangold came up with for Phoebe Waller-Bridge to employ in her performance as Helena Shaw in the upcoming 2023 film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth and last Indiana Jones movie. Radio adaptationThe Lady Eve was presented on Hollywood Star Time on September 21, 1946, with Joan Blondell and John Lund in the starring roles. References Notes Bibliography Coursodon, Jean-Pierre. American Directors: Volume I. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. . Curtis, James. Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges. New York: Limelight Editions, 1984. . Faith, Kathleen. The Unruly Woman: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1995. . Nochimson, Martha. "The Lady Eve and Sullivan's Travels" in Cineaste, Vol. 27, Issue 3, Summer 2002. Sarris, Andrew. The American Cinema: Directors And Directions 1929–1968.