Easy Living

Watch: Easy Living

Unrated

7/16/19371h 28m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ It's dizzy - it's daffy, It's cockeyed - it's laughy! ~

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.

Director:

Mitchell Leisen

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

hotel
new york city
wealth
fur coat
millionaire
screwball comedy
sable
luxury hotel
financier
automat
1930s
father son conflict

Cast

Jean Arthur

~ as ~

Mary Smith

Edward Arnold

~ as ~

J.B. Ball

Ray Milland

~ as ~

John Ball Jr.

Mary Nash

~ as ~

Mrs. Jenny Ball

Franklin Pangborn

~ as ~

Van Buren

Luis Alberni

~ as ~

Mr. Louis Louis

Barlowe Borland

~ as ~

Mr. Gurney

William Demarest

~ as ~

Wallace Whistling

Andrew Tombes

~ as ~

E.J. Hulgar

Esther Dale

~ as ~

Lillian

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Reviews (1)

barrymost
Written 4 year(s) ago
8
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!