Easy Living (1937)
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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What critics compared Easy Living to
Consider the opening of Mitchell Leisen's classic Easy Living, its plot set in motion when fed-up millionaire Edward Arnold tosses his spoiled wife's fur coat out a window and it lands on working girl Jean Arthur, changing her life.
This diverting and generally affable costarring pretext for Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, opening today at area theaters, solicits comparisons in its press material to such Preston Sturges' comedies as "Easy Living" and "Christmas in July."
Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin's sweet nectarine of a jazz standard "Easy Living" figures, in a glancing yet potent way, in Todd Haynes's Carol, adapted from Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel The Price of Salt.