Easy Living (1937 film)

Easy Living 1937 is an American screwball comedy film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from a story by Vera Caspary, and starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milland. Many of the supporting players William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Luis Alberni, Robert Greig, Olaf Hytten, and Arthur Hoyt became a major part of Sturges regular stock company of character actors in his subsequent films.

J.B. Ball Edward Arnold, the third richest banker in America, becomes infuriated after learning that his wife Jenny Mary Nash bought a 58,000 sable fur coat without his knowledge. After finding many fur coats in her closet, Ball grabs one which turns out to be, in fact, the offending coat and throws it off his New York City penthouse roof. It lands on Mary Smith Jean Arthur while she is riding to work on a doubledecker bus. When she tries to return it, he tells her to keep it without informing her how valuable it is. He also buys her an expensive new hat to replace the one damaged in the incident, causing her to be mistaken for his mistress. When she shows up for work, her straitlaced boss suspects her of behaving improperly to get a coat she obviously cannot afford and fires her to protect the reputation of the Boys Constant Companion, the magazine he publishes.Mary begins receiving offers from people eager to cash in on her notoriety. One firm gives her an expensive sixteencylinder car, and hotel owner Mr. Louis Louis Luis Alberni installs her in a luxury suite, hoping that this will deter Ball from foreclosing on his failing establishment. ........

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