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Easy Living

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Easy Living
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1hr 26min
Genres:
Comedy,Romance
Release:
1937
Director:
Mitchell Leisen
Distributor:
Universal Studios
Starring:
Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland  ...more
Synopsis: Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest investment bankers in the country, but he also knows the value of a dollar. And when his wife (Mary Nash) spends 50,000 of them on a sable coat, he is driven into such a fury in the ensuing argument on the roof of their Fifth Avenue townhouse, that he throws the coat into the street -- where it promptly lands on the head of Mary Smith (Jean Arthur), a clerk-typist on her way to ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
One of the most beautifully scripted and plotted screwball comedies of the 1930s, Easy Living unfolds with the interlocking complexity of a Rube Goldberg invention. Adapted by Preston Sturges from a play by Vera Caspary, Easy Living's mix of slapstick humor, topical "in" jokes ("Wallace Whistling" being a great roman-a-clef for gossip columnist Walter Winchell), social realism, and social satire, make ... Full Review
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Jean Arthur
Mary Smith
Edward Arnold
J.B. Ball
Ray Milland
John Ball, Jr.
Luis Alberni
Mr. Louis Louis
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