Easy Living
It's dizzy - it's daffy, It's cockeyed - it's laughy!
7.2(69) 1937-07-16 88 minComedyRomance
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.
ScreenplayPreston Sturges
DirectorMitchell Leisen
ProducerArthur Hornblow Jr.
Original Music ComposerFriedrich Hollaender
Original Music ComposerGordon Jenkins
Original Music ComposerGregory Stone
Original Music ComposerVictor Young
Cast & characters
Jean Arthur
as Mary Smith
Edward Arnold
as J.B. Ball
Ray Milland
as John Ball Jr.
Mary Nash
as Mrs. Jenny Ball
Franklin Pangborn
as Van Buren
Luis Alberni
as Mr. Louis Louis
Barlowe Borland
as Mr. Gurney
William Demarest
as Wallace Whistling
Andrew Tombes
as E.J. Hulgar
Esther Dale
as Lillian
Harlan Briggs
as Magazine Office Manager
William B. Davidson
as Mr. Hyde
Nora Cecil
as Miss Swerf
Robert Greig
as Butler
Lee Bowman
as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
as First Partner (uncredited)
Marsha Hunt
as Girl Getting Coat Dropped on Her at Finale (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
as Office Manager (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
as Police Captain Jackson (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
as Saleswoman (uncredited)
Richard Barbee
as Third Partner (uncredited)
Benny Bartlett
as Newsboy (uncredited)
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Wilson Benge
as Neighboring Butler (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
as Hornsby - Mary's Chauffeur (uncredited)
