About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 29. Chapters: Arise, My Love, Artists and Models Abroad, Behold My Wife, Bride of Vengeance, Captain Carey, U.S.A., Cradle Song (1933 film), Darling, How Could You!, Death Takes a Holiday, Dream Girl (1948 film), Easy Living (1937 film), Four Hours to Kill!, Frenchman's Creek (film), Golden Earrings, Hands Across the Table, Hold Back the Dawn, I Wanted Wings, Kitty (1945 film), Lady in the Dark (film), Masquerade in Mexico, Midnight (1939 film), Murder at the Vanities, No Man of Her Own, No Time for Love (1943 film), Practically Yours, Remember the Night, Song of Surrender, Suddenly, It's Spring, Swing High, Swing Low (film), Take a Letter, Darling, The Big Broadcast of 1937, The Big Broadcast of 1938, The Girl Most Likely, The Lady is Willing, The Mating Season (film), Thirteen Hours by Air, Tonight We Sing, To Each His Own (film). Excerpt: Easy Living (1937) is a screwball comedy film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from a story by Vera Caspary, and starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milland. Many of the supporting players (William Demerest, Franklin Pangborn, Luis Alberni, Robert Greig, Olaf Hytten, and Arthur Hoyt) became a major part of Sturges' regular stock company of character actors in his subsequent films. Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin composed the song "Easy Living" for the film, and it has since become a jazz standard, made famous by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and many other jazz singers. RKO's 1949 film Easy Living starring Victor Mature is not related to this film. J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold), the third richest banker in America, becomes infuriated after learning that his wife Jenny (Mary Nash) had bought a $58,000 fur coat without his knowledge. After finding so many fur coats in her closet, Ball grabs one which turns out to, in fact, be the offending coat and throws it off his New York City penthouse roof. It lands on Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) while she is riding to work on a double-decker bus. When she tries to return it, he tells her to keep it (without informing her how valuable it is). He also buys her an expensive new hat to replace the one damaged in the incident, causing her to be mistaken for his mistress. When she shows up for work, her straitlaced boss suspects her of behaving improperly to get a coat she obviously cannot afford and fires her to protect the reputation of the Boy's Constant Companion, the magazine he publishes. Mary begins receiving offers from people eager to cash in on her notoriety. One firm gives her an expensive sixteen-cylinder car, and hotel owner Mr. Louis Louis (Luis Alberni) installs her in a luxury suite, hoping that this will deter Ball from foreclosing on his failing establishment. When Mary goes to an automat for a meal, she meets John Ball Jr. (Ray Milland), J.B.'s son. He is determined to make it on his own and
