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Easy Living (1937 film)

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Easy Living (1937) is an American 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. [1]

67 relations: Adolphe Menjou, Andrew Tombes, Arthur Hornblow Jr., Arthur Hoyt, Automat, Bankruptcy, Billie Holiday, Christmas in July (film), Columbia Pictures, Cornering the market, Diamond Jim, Doane Harrison, Double-decker bus, Easy Living (Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass album), Easy Living (song), Edward Arnold (actor), Esther Dale, Foreclosure, Franklin Pangborn, Friedrich Hollaender, Gordon Jenkins, Gossip columnist, Hail the Conquering Hero, Harlan Briggs, Harry Cohn, Hotel Haywire, I'll Be Yours, Imitation of Life (1934 film), Jazz standard, Jean Arthur, Leo Robin, Luis Alberni, Mary Nash, Mistress (lover), Mitchell Leisen, Motion Picture Production Code, My Lips Betray, New York City, Nora Cecil, Olaf Hytten, Paramount Pictures, Penthouse apartment, Preston Sturges, Ralph Rainger, Ray Milland, Robert Greig, Sable, Screwball comedy film, Sonja Henie, Steel, ..., Stock market, Stockbroker, Sullivan's Travels, Ted Tetzlaff, The Great McGinty, The Great Moment (1944 film), The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Palm Beach Story, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Thin Ice (1937 film), Vera Caspary, Victor Young, Waldorf Astoria New York, William B. Davidson, William Demarest, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (17 more) »

Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor.

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Andrew Tombes

Andrew Tombes (29 June 1885 – 17 March 1976) was an American comedian and character actor.

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Arthur Hornblow Jr.

Arthur Hornblow Jr. (March 15, 1893 – July 17, 1976) was an American film producer.

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Arthur Hoyt

Arthur Hoyt (March 19, 1874 – January 4, 1953) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34-year film career, about a third of them silent films.

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Automat

An automat is a fast food restaurant where simple foods and drink are served by vending machines.

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Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors.

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Christmas in July (film)

Christmas in July is a 1940 comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges based on his 1931 play A Cup of Coffee.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Cornering the market

In finance, cornering the market consists of obtaining sufficient control of a particular stock, commodity, or other asset in an attempt to manipulate the market price.

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Diamond Jim

Diamond Jim is a 1935 biographical film based on the published biography Diamond Jim Brady by Parker Morell.

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Doane Harrison

Doane Harrison (September 19, 1894 – November 11, 1968) was an American film editor and producer whose career spanned four decades.

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Double-decker bus

A double-decker bus is a bus that has two storeys or decks.

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Easy Living (Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass album)

Easy Living is a 1986 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the celebrated jazz guitarist Joe Pass.

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Easy Living (song)

"Easy Living" (1937) is a jazz standard written by Ralph Rainger and lyrics by Leo Robin for the film Easy Living directed by Mitchell Leisen.

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Edward Arnold (actor)

Edward Arnold (born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider, February 18, 1890 – April 26, 1956) was an American actor.

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Esther Dale

Esther Dale (November 10, 1885 – July 23, 1961) was an American actress, best known perhaps for her role as Aunt Genevieve in the 1935 Shirley Temple vehicle, Curly Top.

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Foreclosure

Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateral for the loan.

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Franklin Pangborn

Franklin Pangborn (January 23, 1889 – July 20, 1958) was an American comedic character actor.

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Friedrich Hollaender

Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 189618 January 1976) was a German film composer and author.

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Gordon Jenkins

Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, composer and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements.

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Gossip columnist

A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially a gossip magazine.

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Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) is a satirical comedy/drama written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines and William Demarest, and featuring Raymond Walburn, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson, Bill Edwards and Freddie Steele.

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Harlan Briggs

Harlan Briggs (August 17, 1879 – January 26, 1952) was an American actor and Vaudeville performer who was active from the 1930s until his death in 1952.

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Harry Cohn

Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was the co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation.

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Hotel Haywire

Hotel Haywire is a 1937 comedy film written by Preston Sturges with uncredited rewrites by Lillie Hayward.

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I'll Be Yours

I'll Be Yours is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin.

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Imitation of Life (1934 film)

Imitation of Life is a 1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl.

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Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners.

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Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American actress and a film star of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Leo Robin

Leo Robin (April 6, 1900 – December 29, 1984) was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter.

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Luis Alberni

Luis Alberni (October 4, 1886 – December 23, 1962) was a Spanish-born American character actor in American films.

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Mary Nash

Mary Nash (born Mary Honora Ryan, August 15, 1884 – December 3, 1976) was an American actress.

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Mistress (lover)

A mistress is a relatively long-term female lover and companion who is not married to her partner, especially when her partner is married to someone else.

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Mitchell Leisen

Mitchell Leisen (October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American director, art director, and costume designer.

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Motion Picture Production Code

The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968.

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My Lips Betray

My Lips Betray is a 1933 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by John G. Blystone and starring Lilian Harvey, John Boles and El Brendel.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nora Cecil

Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras.

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Olaf Hytten

Olaf Hytten (3 March 1888 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish actor.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Penthouse apartment

A penthouse apartment or a penthouse is an apartment or unit on the highest floor of an apartment building, condominium or hotel.

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Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges (born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

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Ralph Rainger

Ralph Rainger (October 7, 1901 – October 23, 1942) was an American composer of popular music principally for films.

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Ray Milland

Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones, 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and film director.

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Robert Greig

Robert Greig (December 27, 1879 – June 27, 1958) was an Australian-American actor who appeared in more than 100 films between 1930 and 1949, usually as the dutiful butler.

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Sable

The sable (Martes zibellina) is a marten species, a small carnivorous mammal inhabiting forest environments, primarily in Russia from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, northern Mongolia.

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Screwball comedy film

Screwball comedy is a genre of comedy film that became popular during the Great Depression, originating in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s.

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Sonja Henie

Sonja Henie (8 April 1912 – 12 October 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and film star.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Stock market

A stock market, equity market or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete entity) of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.

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Stockbroker

A stockbroker is a regulated professional individual, usually associated with a brokerage firm or broker-dealer, who buys and sells stocks and other securities for both retail and institutional clients through a stock exchange or over the counter in return for a fee or commission.

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Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges.

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Ted Tetzlaff

Dale H. "Ted" Tetzlaff (3 June 1903, Los Angeles, California – 7 January 1995, Sausalito, California) was a noted Academy Award-nominated Hollywood cinematographer active in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty is a 1940 political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and (in her final screen appearance) Muriel Angelus.

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The Great Moment (1944 film)

The Great Moment is a 1944 biographical film written and directed by Preston Sturges.

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The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges which stars Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall.

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The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story is a 1942 romantic screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor and Rudy Vallée.

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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock is a 1947 comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring the silent film comic icon Harold Lloyd, and featuring a supporting cast including Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn, Rudy Vallee, Arline Judge, Edgar Kennedy, Franklin Pangborn, J. Farrell MacDonald, Robert Dudley, Robert Greig, Lionel Stander and Jackie the Lion.

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Thin Ice (1937 film)

Thin Ice (1937) is a United States comedy/romance film directed by Sidney Lanfield starring Tyrone Power and figure skater Sonja Henie.

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Vera Caspary

Vera Louise Caspary (November 13, 1899 – June 13, 1987) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories.

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Victor Young

Victor Young (August 8, 1900 – November 10, 1956)"Victor Young, Composer, Dies of Heart Attack", Oakland Tribune, November 12, 1956.

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Waldorf Astoria New York

The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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William B. Davidson

William B. Davidson (June 16, 1888 – September 28, 1947) was an American film actor.

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William Demarest

Carl William Demarest (February 27, 1892 – December 27, 1983) was an American character actor, known for playing Uncle Charley in My Three Sons.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Living_(1937_film)

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