Easy Living

Easy Living (1937)

It's dizzy - it's daffy, It's cockeyed - it's laughy!

  • Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Release Date: 1937-07-16
  • User Rating: 7/10 from 55 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 28min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Paramount Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Mitchell Leisen
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From 55 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • 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)

  • Wilson Benge

    as Neighboring Butler (uncredited)

  • Sidney Bracey

    as Hornsby - Mary's Chauffeur (uncredited)

  • Don Brodie

    as Automobile Salesman (uncredited)

  • Ethel Clayton

    as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

  • Dora Clement

    as Saleslady (uncredited)

  • Lois Clinton

    as Brunette Woman (uncredited)

  • Tom Coleman

    as Doubledecker Bus Conductor (uncredited)

  • Elsa Connor

    as Undetermined Role (uncredited)

  • George Cowl

    as Bank President (uncredited)

  • Virginia Dabney

    as Blonde Woman (uncredited)

  • Hal K. Dawson

    as Jeweler (uncredited)

  • John Dilson

    as Nervous Hotel Registrant (uncredited)

  • Lester Dorr

    as Stock Investor (uncredited)

  • Florence Dudley

    as Cashier (uncredited)

  • Harold Entwistle

    as Elevator Man (uncredited)

  • Amelia Falleur

    as Housemaid (uncredited)

  • Jesse Graves

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

  • Hal Greene

    as Bellhop (uncredited)

  • Robert Haines

    as Hulgar Stock Tally Man (uncredited)

  • Robert Homans

    as Private Guard (uncredited)

  • Arthur Hoyt

    as Jeweler (uncredited)

  • Helen Huntington

    as Stenographer (uncredited)

  • Olaf Hytten

    as Joseph aka Justin - Houseman (uncredited)

  • Adia Kuznetzoff

    as Bum (uncredited)

  • Lillian Lawrence

    as Magazine Office Worker (uncredited)

  • Carl M. Leviness

    as Automat Customer (uncredited)

  • Kathleen Hope Lewis

    as Stenographer (uncredited)

  • Nick Lukats

    as Bum in Automat (uncredited)

  • John Marshall

    as Osric (uncredited)

  • Frank McLure

    as Office Worker (uncredited)

  • Lu Miller

    as Housemaid (uncredited)

  • Rex Moore

    as Elevator Boy (uncredited)

  • Frances Morris

    as Assistant Secretary (uncredited)

  • Bob Murphy

    as Automat Detective (uncredited)

  • Forbes Murray

    as Husband (uncredited)

  • Lee Phelps

    as Hotel Detective (uncredited)

  • John Picorri

    as Ernest - Hotel Waiter (uncredited)

  • Kate Price

    as Laundress (uncredited)

  • Jack Raymond

    as Bum (uncredited)

  • Jack Rice

    as Man in Ball's Outer Office (uncredited)

  • Hector V. Sarno

    as Armenian Rug Salesman (uncredited)

  • Francis Sayles

    as Martin - Houseman (uncredited)

  • Leonid Snegoff

    as Chef (uncredited)

  • Edwin Stanley

    as Second Partner (uncredited)

  • Hayden Stevenson

    as Chauffeur (uncredited)

  • Bernard Suss

    as Man in Automat (uncredited)

  • Laura Treadwell

    as Wife (uncredited)

  • William Wagner

    as J.B. Ball's Valet (uncredited)

  • Gloria Williams

    as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

  • Florence Wix

    as Woman in Hat Shop (uncredited)

  • Harry Worth

    as Hindu Man on Bus (uncredited)
Directing Mitchell Leisen Director
Writing Preston Sturges Screenplay
Writing Vera Caspary Story
Production Arthur Hornblow Jr. Producer
Production William LeBaron Executive Producer
Sound Friedrich Hollaender Original Music Composer
Sound Gordon Jenkins Original Music Composer
Sound Gregory Stone Original Music Composer
Sound Victor Young Original Music Composer
Camera Ted Tetzlaff Director of Photography
Editing Doane Harrison Editor
Art Hans Dreier Art Direction
Art Ernst Fegté Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up Travis Banton Costume Design
Costume & Make-Up Wally Westmore Makeup Artist
Directing Edgar Anderson Assistant Director
Art A. E. Freudeman Set Decoration
Sound Earl S. Hayman Sound Recordist
Sound William Thayer Sound Recordist
Visual Effects Farciot Edouart Visual Effects
Sound Boris Morros Music Director
Crew Milan Roder Additional Music
Crew Leo Shuken Additional Music
Crew Adolph Zukor Presenter

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