Easy Living
71 %|Jul 16, 1937|Comedy, Romance
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.
Featured Crew
Vera Caspary
Story
Preston Sturges
Screenplay
Mitchell Leisen
Director
Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Producer
Ernst Fegté
Art Direction
William LeBaron
Executive Producer
Victor Young
Original Music Composer
Hans Dreier
Art Direction
Cast
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)