Easy Living

Fired from her office job for having reluctantly accepted a fur coat from a happenstance benefactor, cash-strapped Mary (Jean Arthur), at the automat, meets her benefactor's son (Ray Milland), busing tables to prove his independence, in Mitchell Leisen's Easy Living, 1937, written by Preston Sturges.

All-but foreclosed hotelier Louis Louis (Luis Alberni) is under the mistaken impression that equally broke Mary (Jean Arthur) is the flush mistress of his fat-cat banker, production designer-turned-director Mitchell Leisen and writer Preston Sturges having fun with it, in Easy Living, 1937.

Opening from screenwriter Preston Sturges working from a story by Vera Caspary, introducing banker J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold), who calls many of his subordinates "Graves," Robert Greig his butler, Ray Milland his dilletante son, in Easy Living, 1937, directed by Mitchell Leisen.