Easy Living | |
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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 |
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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.