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Easy Living
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Easy Living is a 1937 Screwball Comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen, and boasting a screenplay from Preston Sturges before his directing days.With the fall of a sable coat during her morning bus ride, Mary Smith’s (Jean Arthur) world is turned upside down. She tries to return it to the rich-looking man (Edward Arnold), but he tells her to keep it. Unbeknownst to Mary, this man's the famous financier, J. B. Ball Sr., who could do without a few sable coats. He even buys her a matching hat to replace the one he ruined. And why not? It’s The Great Depression, and who doesn’t want a fur coat and hat?Yet, it causes some major events for Mary: she's fired from her job at The Boys' Constant Companion magazine because of the coat's dubious origins, and an eccentric man, Louis Louis, offers her accommodations in his empty hotel, The Hotel Louis, for no apparent reason. But even with the newly acquired luxury suite, there’s no food.With her piggybank shattered for money, there isn’t much for the automat, and the cute boy, J. B. Ball Jr. (Ray Milland), who sneaked food for her, was fired. But no bother – even with dubious gifts of expensive dresses and cars, she prefers this to working and being in her tiny apartment. With the cute automat boy, perhaps it isn’t so bad, perhaps she can get used to all this easy living.Not to be confused with the 1949 football drama of the same name directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Victor Mature and Lucille Ball. | |
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Piggy Bank | |
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Piggy Bank: In a hilarious scene, Mary's hungry, and to get some money, she must break her piggy bank, Wilfred. Poor thing, she blindfolds it so it won’t have to witness the horrible execution. Poor Wilfred. | |
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Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense | |
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Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: The Balls to a T. | |
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Mistaken for Cheating | |
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Mistaken for Cheating: Ball Sr. and Mary. When he buys her a matching hat (since he wrecked her old one with the fur coat), a store clerk tells Louis Louis, who then asks Mary to stay at his hotel, thinking that she can influence Ball Sr. to not foreclose his hotel. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Ray Milland's Welsh accent comes out most of the time. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
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Blessed with Suck: Furs, jewelry, a palatial hotel suite—Mary gets it all. But having so many luxuries heaped on the once-starving woman without any understandable explanation eventually eats away at her (already slightly shaky) sanity. | |
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Zany Scheme | |
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Zany Scheme: Louis Louis believes that if Mary stays at his hotel (who he believes is Ball Sr.'s mistress), then Ball won't foreclose his hotel. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
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Skewed Priorities: During J. B. Ball's Staircase Tumble in the opening scene, his butler is only concerned about the state of his lord's trousers. | |
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Delayed Reaction | |
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Delayed Reaction: Mary's late reaction to Ball Jr's perky good night kiss. Justified since she was half asleep at that point. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: Mr. Louis Louis. | |
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Funny Foreigner | |
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Funny Foreigner: Louis Louis (nope, not a spelling mistake, that's both of his names) is a classic example. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: The famous sable coat on Mary. | |
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Sustained Misunderstanding | |
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Sustained Misunderstanding: Mr Louis believing that Mary is Mr Ball Jr.'s mistress and Mary believing that she was hired to boost the hotel to anyone. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: The Balls live in one. Mary's suite in the Hotel Louis has five reception rooms. | |
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Staircase Tumble | |
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Staircase Tumble: J. B. Ball takes one. Played for Laughs, of course. | |
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Plot Device | |
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Plot Device: The sable coat starts it all. | |
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Third-Act Misunderstanding | |
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Third-Act Misunderstanding: J. B. Ball Jr. finally hears the rumors and believes that Mary is his father’s mistress, leading to this trope. He, realizing his silliness for throwing away a great girl, calls the police brigade to stop her car, and get her back. | |
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Audience Murmurs | |
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Audience Murmurs: The reaction of the staff at The Boys' Constant Companion when Mary enters with her fur coat. | |
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Rooftop Confrontation | |
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Rooftop Confrontation: Jenny and J. B. run to the roof to argue about the sable coat. He throws it over, and it lands on unsuspecting Mary. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
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Here We Go Again!: The film begins with a fur coat falling on an unsuspecting girl, leading to a series of misunderstandings, and ends the same way with another girl getting rained on by a fur coat, suggesting the same thing starting to happen once again. | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations: A small, blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment: | |
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Slumming It | |
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Slumming It: J. B. Ball Jr. decides to make it out on his own, working as a server in an automat. | |
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Plucky Girl | |
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Plucky Girl: Mary seems to fit this trope quite well. | |
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The Pratfall | |
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The Pratfall: The Pratfalls! A hilarious scene in the automat demonstrates the awesomeness of well-timed pratfalls. | |
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Nice to the Waiter | |
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Nice to the Waiter: Zigzagged with J.B. Ball. He can be very snappish with subordinates at home and at work, but he also asks about their families and seems interested in them as people, and when it looks like he's about to lose his fortune, he refuses to blame any of them. | |
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Auto-Kitchen | |
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Auto-Kitchen: Automats were like vending machines, except bigger and they had a staff of people making hot food. Ball Jr. breaks the system by accidentally opening all the windows, causing a mad rush to get free food. | |
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Meet Cute | |
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Meet Cute: Absolutely mandatory in screwball. Here John Ball Jr. meets Mary in the automat. He wants to give her free food, and then Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Offscreen Crash | |
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Offscreen Crash: Happens in the scene when J. B. Ball rams in the door to his wife's bedroom. | |
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Dysfunctional Family | |
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Dysfunctional Family: Ball’s family is this. A wife who compulsively buys fur coats, a son who decides to make it out on his own, and servants that are willing to make fun of their boss. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: The telegrapher seems to operate this way as the telegram from Mr. Louis to Mary attests: Can I See You At Once Question Mark. Urgent Exclamation Point. | |
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Rags to Riches | |
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Rags to Riches: From her lonely apartment, to a luxury suite in a fancy hotel, Mary gets all the fixings. All due to a misunderstanding. | |
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It! | |
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: A paper boy hands Mr Ball Jr. the papers that inform him about his father's business troubles. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Mary's employer, Mr. Higginbottom, simply won't believe that a random man gave her this expensive coat, and then bought her a hat to go with it. | |
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Morally Bankrupt Banker | |
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Morally Bankrupt Banker: Averted with Ball Sr. He's fairly good at his job, and is known as the Bull of Broadstreet. He has given Louis Louis three mortgages to pay for his hotel, and gives him a week extension or he'll foreclose. Quite frankly, that's being very generous to someone as nutty as Louis. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Mary encountering Mr Ball Sr. and Jr. in different locations the same day is a stretch. | |
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Idle Rich | |
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Idle Rich: Jenny Ball spends $58,000note which is roughly worth $1 million today on one sable coat. And she's got a closet full of them! | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: When Jenny sarcastically notes how she knows what it's like to be married to the fourth biggest banker in the country, Ball Sr. counters, "Third biggest banker." | |
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Old Money | |
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Old Money: J.B. Ball Sr.'s father was a banker as well. | |
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Follow That Car | |
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Follow That Car: Ball Jr. going after Mary at the end. | |
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Old Maid | |
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Old Maid: The Boys' Constant Companion, the magazine where Mary works, is filled with spinster types who are more than happy to see her fired. | |
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Auto-Kitchen / int_8be05445 | |
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Follow That Car / int_8be05445 | |
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Funny Foreigner / int_8be05445 | |
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