Easy Living

1937

1h 28m

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7.0/10

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Comedy

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J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

Directors

Mitchell Leisen

Writers

Preston Sturges(screenplay by)

Vera Caspary(story by)

Stars

Jean Arthur

Edward Arnold

Ray Milland

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Mary Smith

J.B. Ball

John Ball Jr.

Mrs. Jenny Ball

Van Buren

Mr. Louis Louis

Mr. Gurney

Wallace Whistling

E.J. Hulgar

Lillian

Magazine Office Manager

Mr. Hyde

Miss Swerf

Butler

Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)

Vernon Dent

First Partner (uncredited)

Marsha Hunt

Girl Getting Coat Dropped on Her at Finale (uncredited)

Dennis O'Keefe

Office Manager (uncredited)

Directors

Mitchell Leisen

Writers

Preston Sturges(screenplay by)

Vera Caspary(story by)

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8/10

Bad things happen when you throw your wife's expensive new Kolinsky fur coat off a roof. At least, that's the lesson Mr. J.B. Ball learned when he tried it, and all the ensuing mishaps and crazy rumors begin to follow him all over town. The comedic duo of Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold is fantastic, and the pair would be teamed to similar screwball effect the following year, in Frank Capra's classic "You Can't Take It with You". A very young, very dapper Ray Milland adds a nice touch to the fun in this film. The insane, rollicking story proves that you can actually make a movie, and a good one at that, about a man throwing a fur coat off a roof!

barrymost14 Jul, 2020