Easy Living (1937)

NR07/16/1937Comedy, Romance1h 28m
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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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Jean Arthur

    Mary Smith

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    Edward Arnold

    J.B. Ball

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    Ray Milland

    John Ball Jr.

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    Mary Nash

    Mrs. Jenny Ball

  5. Cast 1

    Franklin Pangborn

    Van Buren

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    Luis Alberni

    Mr. Louis Louis

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    Barlowe Borland

    Mr. Gurney

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    William Demarest

    Wallace Whistling

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    Andrew Tombes

    E.J. Hulgar

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 ...