Double Feature
Easy Living (1937)
Jean Arthur and Ray Milland shine in this screwball comedy written by Academy Award winner Preston Sturges. Mary Smith (Arthur) is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier (Edward Arnold) tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she’s his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter (Milland). It’s a “delight comedy” (Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide) full of misunderstandings that showcases high-society slapstick at its best! (Universal)
- Director
- Mitchell Leisen
- Writer
- Screenplay by Preston Sturges based on a story by Vera Caspary
- Starring
- Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni, Mary Nash
- Year
- 1937
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 88 minutes
If You Could Only Cook
Lovesick auto manufacturer Jim Buchanan (Herbert Marshall, The Little Foxes) is about to be married, but the bride doesn’t love him and his board of directors shoots down every idea he has for a new car. Frustrated, he takes a walk in the park and runs into Joan (Jean Arthur, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), a down-on-her-luck woman needing a job. When Joan suggests to Jim they apply for a job as a butler-cook couple for former bootlegger Rossini (Leo Carrillo, Phantom of the Opera), Jim goes along with it as a goof, learning from his own butler how to do the job. But as Jim falls for Joan, his real identity starts to become clearer, and it causes some calamitous situations! (Sony)
- Director
- William A. Seiter
- Writer
- Screen play by Howard J. Green and Gertrude Purcell, story by F. Hugh Herbert
- Starring
- Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Lionel Stander
- Year
- 1935
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 72 minutes