 | Easy Living Universal Cinema Classics
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Sales Rank: 311
Actors: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
Director: Mitchell Leisen
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Features: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Number of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: July 7, 1937
Studio: Universal Studios |
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| Jean Arthur and Ray Milland shine in this screwball comedy written by Academy Award® winner* Preston Sturges. Mary Smith Arthur is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier Edward Arnold tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter Milland. It's a "delightful comedy" Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide full of misunderstandings that showcases high-society slapstick at its best!System Requirements:Running Time: 89 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/SCREWBALL COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 025193299123 Manufacturer No: 61032991 | | Of all the screenplays Preston Sturges wrote for Paramount before becoming the greatest comic director of his generation, 1937's Easy Living seems the most like something he would have filmed himself--a satirical fable about chance, class, and the absurdity of the American dream. Jean Arthur is a New York secretary riding to work atop a double-decker bus when a fur coat miraculously descends from the sky and settles on her shoulders. The fur, however, has not dropped from Olympus but from the hand of a millionaire Edward Arnold who has just tossed it from a nearby roof to punish his wife. But as if it were a magic fleece the mythical reference is almost certainly intended by the erudite Sturges, it makes its wearer invincible, conferring an aura of prosperity, celebrity, and power on the previously average working girl. No folk tale is complete without a prince: Sturges's is the millionaire's son, Ray Milland, who is trying to pass as an apprentice stockbroker. Directed with a light, elegant touch by Mitchell Leisen, the film lacks the crazy energy it would have had under Sturges's own hand, but this remains one of the great screwball comedies in a year that also saw The Awful Truth and Nothing Sacred. --Dave Kehr |
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