Easy Living (1937 Mitchell Leisen)

Also well overdue is this archetypal Paramount Preston Sturges comedy which is frequently so fast you don't take in all the gags. Jean Arthur accepts $58,000 fur coat from aggrieved businessman Edward Arnold, bumps into his son Ray Milland. Great support from the hilarious Luis Alberni as the hotel manager (almost a prototype for Wilder's in Avanti) plus others who we come to recognise from the Sturges stock company - Pangborn, Demarest, Greig.

Great jokes e.g. every girl needs a background.

Ph. Ted Tetzlaff, editor Doane Harrison.