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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Another feather-light, glamorous screwball swirl from Leisen: a broke heroine is swept into a world of wealth, mistaken identity, and romantic complications, with Claudette Colbert matching Jean Arthur’s bright, resilient comic energy.
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Why this pick
Jean Arthur again turns housing scarcity into sparkling romantic farce. Its crowded apartment setup, warm character interplay, and expertly escalating misunderstandings carry the same buoyant generosity as Easy Living.
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Why this pick
A Depression-era screwball comedy that similarly pits an unassuming outsider against deliriously entitled wealth. It shares Easy Living’s class satire, sophisticated pace, and affection for people caught in absurd social assumptions.
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Why this pick
Like Easy Living, it makes a powerful businessman’s encounter with ordinary working people into humane, fizzy comedy. Jean Arthur’s mischievous warmth and the sly workplace-class satire are especially close fits.
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Why this pick
For Easy Living’s blend of moneyed foolishness, romantic deception, and dazzling comic reversals. Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda give the class games a sharper edge, but the tone remains elegant and exuberant.
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01 / THE STORY
J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold (actor)), the third richest banker in America, becomes infuriated after learning that his wife Jenny (Mary Nash) bought a $58,000 sable fur coat without his knowledge. After finding many fur coats in her closet, Ball grabs one which turns out to be, in fact, the offending coat and throws it off his New York City penthouse apartment 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 (lover). 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.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Mr. Gurney
Wallace Whistling
Van Buren
Lillian
Mary Smith
J.B. Ball
John Ball Jr.
