easy living

Easy Living is a 1937 screwball comedy film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges, and starring Jean Arthur.Arthur plays a female clerk at a boys' pulp magazine publishing house (the fictitious Boys' Constant Companion) who can easily be fooled by installment payment scams, but through a sequence of wildly fortunate events interspersed by slapstick gets mistaken for the mistress of the third richest banker in America. Overtopping the norms of the genre, everything in her new life is fantastically stylish and expensive. And her presence in, absence from, or mistaken decisions concerning real estate and the stock market have satirical consequences to these institutions in the film. The film is noteworthy for several period references.
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