Easy Living(1937)
It's dizzy - it's daffy, It's cockeyed - it's laughy!
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.
Movie: Easy Living
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Mary Smith
J.B. Ball
John Ball Jr.
Mrs. Jenny Ball
Van Buren
Mr. Louis Louis
Mr. Gurney
Wallace Whistling
E.J. Hulgar
Lillian
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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.
Release Date
1937-07-16
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3.5 startsTagline
It's dizzy - it's daffy, It's cockeyed - it's laughy!
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