Easy Living (Universal Cinema Classics) | Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold

Easy Living (Universal Cinema Classics) | Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold | finally!

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	Easy Living (Universal Cinema Classics) Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold Universal Studios, 2008 average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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

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Piggy Bank Blindfolds, Confusing Installment Plans and Starving Secretaries Are Here ComicallyKismetted

Jean Arthur never made a better comedy, and that's saying something! With a surfeit of superb set-pieces, and unequalled writing, Easy Living sashays giddily along the avenues of depression American, spewing forth hilarity like so many wildcat strikes. So miraculous is Sturges' touch he almost seems a comic rhabdomancist, as gushers of comedy break forth in a supernormal even surrealist display of the most ribald imagination possible. Backed with the underrated Mitch Leisen's stylish direction this gem of a film just get's better with age.

Heroine Jean Arthur, down to her last dime, decides to break open her piggybank - but soft-hearted Jean can't do it - she has to first tie a blindfold around the piggy's eyes before smashing it open! Every math teacher in the world will crack up as Edward Arnold, in his usual role as the great man of business, this time as a prominent banker, spends a fruitless five minutes in the backseat of his limo trying to explain the trap of compound interest payments to shopgirl Jean, who insists she knows arithmetic better than he does and drives him half-crazy when she can't follow his reasoning.

And on and on all leading up to the legendary Automat scene with Ray Milland and Jean Arthur creating utter chaos at the food automat.

If you like Jean Arthur, or Preston Sturges, and you haven't yet seen this doozy of a screwball comedy - now you can! Don't miss it!

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finally!

I've been waiting for years for this movie to come out in DVD. It's one of the best classic screwball comedies ever. Jean Arthur, sparkling as always, and a very young Ray Milland are marvelous as is Edward Arnold as the mink-tossing father. The Automat scene is unforgettable. Crammed full of the best character actors of the studio, it's a delight from beginning to end. Plus you have a nice satiric take on the very rich and those that live off of them.

Easy Living

Easy LIving is a fun and unconventional film that is typical of Jean Arthur. I love her.

"Say What's The Big Deal Anyway?"

"Easy Living" is a light-hearted comedy romance ala '37 that is sure to provide an enjoyable diversion for anyone who loves the classic oldies. It's certainly not one of the more well-known feature films of that era but it still delivers the naïve and innocent charm that we all like to harken back to now and then.

Footnote: If you like foreign films you might want to pick-up a copy of 'Kis Kis Ki Kismat' a Hindi film released within the last couple of years. It's a remake of this one only Bollywood style starring the stunning Mallika Sherawat.

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Easing Living

Fun movie - enjoyed it greatly. What a fun way to spend a weekend morning, listening / seeing an older movie that was just a delightful escape. Glad I purchase it!

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