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Easy Living

1937 · 88 min · Director: Mitchell Leisen ★ IMDb 7.5 · 4,817 ratings

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J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

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Easy Living (1937) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Humor 35%, Joy 25%, Surprise 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

35%Humor
25%Joy
  1. Humor35%
  2. Joy25%
  3. Love10%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Humor, Joy, Surprise. Genres: Comedy, Romance. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Humor, Joy and Surprise. Its IMDb rating of 7.5/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 73/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Humor
  • Curiosity
  • Relief

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Tension

Humor
Curiosity
Relief
Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 28 %, then peaks around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityHumorCuriosityRelief
2.5 %≈ 2′Humor59 %59 %24 %0 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Humor60 %60 %32 %3 %
12.5 %≈ 11′Humor58 %57 %39 %6 %
17.5 %≈ 15′Humor55 %53 %38 %3 %
22.5 %≈ 20′Humor49 %45 %33 %0 %
27.5 %≈ 24′Humor45 %42 %31 %3 %
32.5 %≈ 29′Humor53 %52 %35 %13 %
37.5 %≈ 33′Humor54 %53 %34 %16 %
42.5 %≈ 37′Humor48 %48 %29 %7 %
47.5 %≈ 42′Humor54 %54 %29 %4 %
52.5 %≈ 46′Humor62 %61 %34 %8 %
57.5 %≈ 51′Humor60 %58 %36 %8 %
62.5 %≈ 55′Humor55 %53 %37 %5 %
67.5 %≈ 59′Humor58 %55 %42 %1 %
72.5 %≈ 64′Humor63 %60 %45 %6 %
77.5 %≈ 68′Humor68 %57 %42 %14 %
82.5 %≈ 73′Tension69 %54 %39 %14 %
87.5 %≈ 77′Humor68 %59 %40 %20 %
92.5 %≈ 81′Humor69 %64 %35 %36 %
97.5 %≈ 86′Humor70 %66 %28 %43 %
Cinderella

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

MN
Mary Nash

LA
Luis Alberni

LA
Luis Alberni

Mr. Louis Louis

BB
Barlowe Borland

WD
William Demarest

Wallace Whistling

AT
Andrew Tombes

E.J. Hulgar

HB
Harlan Briggs

Magazine Office Manager

WB
William B. Davidson

Mr. Hyde

NC
Nora Cecil

Miss Swerf

Robert Greig

Butler

LB
Lee Bowman

Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)

VD
Vernon Dent

First Partner (uncredited)

MH
Marsha Hunt

Girl Getting Coat Dropped on Her at Finale (uncredited)

DO
Dennis O'Keefe

Office Manager (uncredited)

SA
Stanley Andrews

Police Captain Jackson (uncredited)

Gertrude Astor

Saleswoman (uncredited)

Details

Directed by
Mitchell Leisen
Written by
Vera Caspary, Preston Sturges
Type
Movies
Released
1937
Runtime
88 min
Country
United States of America
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.5 · 4,817 ratings
Feels mostly
Humor
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