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Easy Living is a 1937 American screwball comedy film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from a story by Vera Caspary, and starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milland.
Summaries. When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions. J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family.
Easy Living: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni. When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Mitchell Leisen
- 1937-07-16
Overview. 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. Mitchell Leisen.
Synopsis: Impoverished Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) is on her way to work when a phenomenally expensive sable coat suddenly lands on her head. Millionaire stockbroker J.B. Ball, the famous Bull of Wall Street (Edward Arnold), threw the coat from a rooftop to spite his greedy wife Jenny (Mary Nash).
- Mitchell Leisen, Edgar Anderson
- Jean Arthur
“Living” is a comedy about a down and out depression girl, played by Jean Arthur, who finds herself the accidental owner of a sable fur coat. Sturges’ screenplay about her unwanted - though not unearned - wealth depicts the demanding career that is Consumption. And not the kind the poets died from.
Easy Living (1937) is an American screwball comedy film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from a story by Vera Caspary, and starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milland.
