Easy Living
Easy Living is a 1937 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.
Plot
J.B. Ball, the third richest banker in America, has a fight with his son John Jr. over breakfast. It ends with the son leaving, determined to prove that he can make his own way. Ball becomes infuriated after learning that his wife Jenny bought a $58,000 sable fur coat ($1.3M in 2025) and he decides it has to be returned. After finding many fur coats in her closet, Ball grabs the sable coat. Jenny takes it from him, and a chase takes them to the roof of their New York City penthouse. He throws it over the edge.
More details
| author | Preston Sturges |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Mitchell Leisen |
| editor | Doane Harrison |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | automat bankruptcy buy cornered the market cornering the market double-decker bus elite food fight foreclose foreclosure fur coat get together hotel owner joke learn mistress new job penthouse penthouse apartment rid sable steel stock market stockbroker their way |
| musicBy | Ralph Rainger |
| producer | Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | romantic comedy screwball comedy |