Easy Living (1937 film)

Easy Living
Film poster
Directed by	Mitchell Leisen
Screenplay by	Preston Sturges
Story by	Vera Caspary
Produced by	Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Starring	Jean Arthur Edward Arnold Ray Milland
Cinematography	Ted Tetzlaff
Edited by	Doane Harrison
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	July 16, 1937 (1937-07-16)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Easy Living is a 1937 American screwball comedy film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from a story by Vera Caspary, and starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milland. Many of the supporting players (William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Luis Alberni, Robert Greig, Olaf Hytten, and Arthur Hoyt) became a major part of Sturges' regular stock company of character actors in his subsequent films.

Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin composed the song "Easy Living" for the film, and it has since become a jazz standard, made famous by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and many other jazz singers.^[1]

The film is unrelated to a 1949 RKO drama by the same name.