Easy Living (Universal Cinema Classics)
by Mitchell Leisen
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Actor: Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Ray MillandDirector: Mitchell Leisen
Brand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Easy Living (Universal Cinema Classics)
Movie Review: Our Family Loves This Film!
Summary: 5 Stars
We love Jean Arthur Edward Arnold, and this movie is in keeping with their wonderfully funny personalities. Very well done! We purchased this last year, and have watched it a number of times since. It quickly moved onto our list of favorites. Easy Living also includes William Demarest (much younger) who played Uncle Charlie on My Three Sons, and Mary Nash, who was the mother in Philadelphia Story. (Kathryn Hepburn and Cary Grant) We are very happy to have this movie in our collection of classics!
Summary of Easy Living (Universal Cinema Classics)
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!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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