Easy Living

1937 PG-13 1h 28m

7.1 / 10 68

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7.1/10

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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

Writers

Preston Sturges Vera Caspary

Stars

Jean Arthur Edward Arnold Ray Milland

Magazine Office Manager

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)

Richard Barbee

Third Partner (uncredited)

Neighboring Butler (uncredited)

Sidney Bracey

Hornsby - Mary's Chauffeur (uncredited)

Don Brodie

Automobile Salesman (uncredited)

Ethel Clayton

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Dora Clement

Saleslady (uncredited)

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Lois Clinton

Brunette Woman (uncredited)

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Tom Coleman

Doubledecker Bus Conductor (uncredited)

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Elsa Connor

Undetermined Role (uncredited)

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George Cowl

Bank President (uncredited)

Virginia Dabney

Blonde Woman (uncredited)

Hal K. Dawson

Jeweler (uncredited)

John Dilson

Nervous Hotel Registrant (uncredited)

Lester Dorr

Stock Investor (uncredited)

Elevator Man (uncredited)

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Amelia Falleur

Housemaid (uncredited)

Jesse Graves

Graves - J.B. Ball's Porter (uncredited)

Hulgar Stock Tally Man (uncredited)

Robert Homans

Private Guard (uncredited)

Stenographer (uncredited)

Olaf Hytten

Joseph aka Justin - Houseman (uncredited)

Magazine Office Worker (uncredited)

Carl M. Leviness

Automat Customer (uncredited)

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Kathleen Hope Lewis

Stenographer (uncredited)

Nick Lukats

Bum in Automat (uncredited)

Office Worker (uncredited)

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Lu Miller

Housemaid (uncredited)

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Rex Moore

Elevator Boy (uncredited)

Frances Morris

Assistant Secretary (uncredited)

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Bob Murphy

Automat Detective (uncredited)

Forbes Murray

Husband (uncredited)

Lee Phelps

Hotel Detective (uncredited)

John Picorri

Ernest - Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

Kate Price

Laundress (uncredited)

Man in Ball's Outer Office (uncredited)

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Hector V. Sarno

Armenian Rug Salesman (uncredited)

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Francis Sayles

Martin - Houseman (uncredited)

Leonid Snegoff

Chef (uncredited)

Edwin Stanley

Second Partner (uncredited)

Hayden Stevenson

Chauffeur (uncredited)

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Bernard Suss

Man in Automat (uncredited)

J.B. Ball's Valet (uncredited)

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Gloria Williams

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Florence Wix

Woman in Hat Shop (uncredited)

Harry Worth

Hindu Man on Bus (uncredited)

Comedy Romance

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User Reviews 1

barrymost 14 Jul 2020

8/10

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 clas...