Easy Living

Easy Living

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

NR 1937 · 88 min · ★ 7.2 · 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.

Directed by Mitchell Leisen · Written by Preston Sturges

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