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Easy Living

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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.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1937-07-16

Runtime: 88 mins

Director: Mitchell Leisen

Spoken language: English

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Original title: Easy Living

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Jean Arthur

Edward Arnold

Ray Milland

Mary Nash

Franklin Pangborn

Luis Alberni

Barlowe Borland

William Demarest

Andrew Tombes

Esther Dale

Magazine Office Manager

Harlan Briggs

Mr. Hyde

William B. Davidson

Miss Swerf

Nora Cecil

Butler

Robert Greig

Reviews

barrymost

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!

2020-07-14

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