Easy Living
A perfect farce from 1937, Easy Living catches Jean Arthur at the peak of her career and is so devilishly constructed that explaining the plot would be a fool’s game. But the gist of it is that a normal young woman on the top deck of an open-top bus suddenly finds herself draped in a ridiculously expensive sable coat. A banker sick of his wife’s lavish tastes has thrown it off the roof of his apartment and it’s landed on the shoulders of (un)lucky Mary Smith (Arthur). Her life is transformed, but so are the lives of the banker, the wife, their son, a couturier and a struggling hotelier, whose hotel is the … Read more