What is Midnight / Easy Living about?

Name: Midnight / Easy Living
Genre: Comedy,Romance

MIDNIGHT, 1939, Universal, 94 min. One of director Mitchell Leisen's most charming and graceful confections, this Parisian farce boasts a script by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and a cast that includes some of the era's finest performers. Ex-showgirl Claudette Colbert impersonates a Hungarian countess in order to infiltrate the European jet set. She's after money, not love, but her plans get complicated when a working class cabbie (Don Ameche) falls for her and chases her down in high society. EASY LIVING, 1937, Universal, 88 min. Dir. Mitchell Leisen. Preston Sturges wrote this Depression-era Cinderella story, in which working girl Jean Arthur's fortunes change after she lucks into possession of a rich woman's coat. As those around her assume that what she wears is an indicator of who she is, Arthur climbs the social ladder and eventually falls in love with Ray Milland -- the son of the coat's real owner.

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What is Midnight / Easy Living about?: MIDNIGHT, 1939, Universal, 94 min. One of director Mitchell Leisen's most charming and graceful confections, this Parisian farce boasts a script by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and a cast that includes some of the era's finest performers. Ex-showgirl Claudette Colbert impersonates a Hungarian countess in order to infiltrate the European jet set. She's after money, not love, but her plans get complicated when a working class cabbie (Don Ameche) falls for her and chases her down in high society.
EASY LIVING, 1937, Universal, 88 min. Dir. Mitchell Leisen. Preston Sturges wrote this Depression-era Cinderella story, in which working girl Jean Arthur's fortunes change after she lucks into possession of a rich woman's coat. As those around her assume that what she wears is an indicator of who she is, Arthur climbs the social ladder and eventually falls in love with Ray Milland -- the son of the coat's real owner.