14 August 2021

Easy Living (1937)

This screwball comedy-romance-satire, with oodles of slapstick and pratfalls, stars Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and baby Ray Milland, directed by Mitchell Leisen. Jean Arthur is fab! 😍 Any movie with a scene in an Automat is A+ in my book. I'm always surprised how the women characters in 1930s movies are dripping in furs! In the midst of the Great Depression. I'm sure that costuming choice is a comment on inequality in this flick, but it's almost ubiquitous in that era's movies, so I'm a little sceptical of the true intent. Funny movie ... so who really cares?

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