Film

Easy Living

1937 · 1h 28m · Comedy · Romance

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

IMDb

7.5

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

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.

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)

• Mitchell LeisenDirector
• Preston SturgesScreenplay
• Vera CasparyStory
• Arthur Hornblow Jr.Producer
• William LeBaronExecutive Producer
• Ted TetzlaffDirector of Photography
• Victor YoungOriginal Music Composer
• Gordon JenkinsOriginal Music Composer
• Gregory StoneOriginal Music Composer
• Friedrich HollaenderOriginal Music Composer

Release date

July 16, 1937

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Genres

Comedy, Romance

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