Easy Living
It's dizzy - it's daffy, It's cockeyed - it's laughy!
1937 | 88m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Mitchell Leisen |
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| Writer: | Vera Caspary, Preston Sturges |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jul 16, 1937 |
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| Director: | Mitchell Leisen |
| Writer: | Vera Caspary, Preston Sturges |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | new york city, millionaire, luxury hotel, 1930s, hotel, fur coat, sable, automat, wealth, screwball comedy, financier, father son conflict |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 02, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Richard Barbee | Third Partner (uncredited) |
| Benny Bartlett | Newsboy (uncredited) |
| Wilson Benge | 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) |
| Lois Clinton | Brunette Woman (uncredited) |
| Tom Coleman | Doubledecker Bus Conductor (uncredited) |
| Elsa Connor | Undetermined Role (uncredited) |
| 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) |
| Florence Dudley | Cashier (uncredited) |
| Harold Entwistle | Elevator Man (uncredited) |
| Amelia Falleur | Housemaid (uncredited) |
| Jesse Graves | Graves - J.B. Ball's Porter (uncredited) |
| Hal Greene | Bellhop (uncredited) |
| Robert Haines | Hulgar Stock Tally Man (uncredited) |
| Robert Homans | Private Guard (uncredited) |
| Arthur Hoyt | Jeweler (uncredited) |
| Helen Huntington | Stenographer (uncredited) |
| Olaf Hytten | Joseph aka Justin - Houseman (uncredited) |
| Adia Kuznetzoff | Bum (uncredited) |
| Lillian Lawrence | Magazine Office Worker (uncredited) |
| Carl M. Leviness | Automat Customer (uncredited) |
| Kathleen Hope Lewis | Stenographer (uncredited) |
| Nick Lukats | Bum in Automat (uncredited) |
| John Marshall | Osric (uncredited) |
| Frank McLure | Office Worker (uncredited) |
| Lu Miller | Housemaid (uncredited) |
| Rex Moore | Elevator Boy (uncredited) |
| Frances Morris | Assistant Secretary (uncredited) |
| Bob Murphy | Automat Detective (uncredited) |
| Forbes Murray | Husband (uncredited) |
| Lee Phelps | Hotel Detective (uncredited) |
| John Picorri | Ernest - Hotel Waiter (uncredited) |
| Kate Price | Laundress (uncredited) |
| Jack Raymond | Bum (uncredited) |
| Jack Rice | Man in Ball's Outer Office (uncredited) |
| Hector V. Sarno | Armenian Rug Salesman (uncredited) |
| Francis Sayles | Martin - Houseman (uncredited) |
| Leonid Snegoff | Chef (uncredited) |
| Edwin Stanley | Second Partner (uncredited) |
| Hayden Stevenson | Chauffeur (uncredited) |
| Bernard Suss | Man in Automat (uncredited) |
| Laura Treadwell | Wife (uncredited) |
| William Wagner | J.B. Ball's Valet (uncredited) |
| Gloria Williams | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) |
| Florence Wix | Woman in Hat Shop (uncredited) |
| Harry Worth | Hindu Man on Bus (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Friedrich Hollaender | Original Music Composer |
| Victor Young | Original Music Composer |
| Ted Tetzlaff | Director of Photography |
| Travis Banton | Costume Design |
| Wally Westmore | Makeup Artist |
| Adolph Zukor | Presenter |
| Vera Caspary | Story |
| Gordon Jenkins | Original Music Composer |
| Gregory Stone | Original Music Composer |
| Doane Harrison | Editor |
| Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Ernst Fegté | Art Direction |
| Edgar Anderson | Assistant Director |
| A. E. Freudeman | Set Decoration |
| Earl S. Hayman | Sound Recordist |
| William Thayer | Sound Recordist |
| Farciot Edouart | Visual Effects |
| Boris Morros | Music Director |
| Milan Roder | Additional Music |
| Leo Shuken | Additional Music |
| Mitchell Leisen | Director |
| Preston Sturges | Screenplay |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Arthur Hornblow Jr. | Producer |
| William LeBaron | Executive Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 3 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 4 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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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!
Jun 23, 2021