Feature1937·88m·7.2

Easy Living

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

ComedyRomance

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.

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Cast

Jean Arthur

Mary Smith

Edward Arnold

J.B. Ball

Ray Milland

John Ball Jr.

Mary Nash

Mrs. Jenny Ball

Franklin Pangborn

Van Buren

Luis Alberni

Mr. Louis Louis

Barlowe Borland

Mr. Gurney

William Demarest

Wallace Whistling

Andrew Tombes

E.J. Hulgar

Esther Dale

Lillian

Harlan Briggs

Magazine Office Manager

William B. Davidson

Mr. Hyde

Nora Cecil

Miss Swerf

Robert Greig

Butler

Lee Bowman

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)

Stanley Andrews

Police Captain Jackson (uncredited)

Gertrude Astor

Saleswoman (uncredited)

Details

Status
Released
Original language
English
Languages
English
Budget
Revenue
Age rating
Quality
4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production
Paramount Pictures

Crew

Director

Mitchell Leisen

Writers

Preston Sturges, Vera Caspary

Friedrich Hollaender

Original Music Composer

Gordon Jenkins

Original Music Composer

Gregory Stone

Original Music Composer

Victor Young

Original Music Composer

Ted Tetzlaff

Director of Photography

Doane Harrison

Editor

Gallery

Reviews

barrymost

7/14/2020

8.0

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!