Easy Living

Preston Sturges wrote the screenplay for this engaging screwball comedy, adapted from a play by Vera Caspary. J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold), a millionaire Wall Street tycoon, is having an argument with his free-spending wife (Mary Nash) one morning in their penthouse apartment, and in a fit of pique he throws her mink coat out the window. The mink lands on Mary Smith (Jean Arthur), a lowly office worker who is riding to work on the upper half of a double-decker bus. Ball tracks down Mary, and t...