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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.
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.
During the Great Depression, a discarded fur coat lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith (Jean Arthur), triggering a life-altering chain of events. Obscenely wealthy banker J. B. Ball ...
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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).
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.
Title: Easy Living. Summary: During the Great Depression, a wealthy banker throws away his wife's expensive fur coat; it lands on the head of a stenographer, leading to everyone assuming she is his mistress and has access to his millions. Directed by: Mitchell Leisen.
"Easy Living" is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen, with a screenplay by Preston Sturges based on a story by Vera Caspary. Th...
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.
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.
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.
