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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- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures
Keywords
- hotel
- new york city
- wealth
- fur coat
- millionaire
- screwball comedy
- sable
- luxury hotel
- financier
- automat
- 1930s
- father son conflict
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Top Cast
Jean Arthur as Mary Smith
Edward Arnold as J.B. Ball
Ray Milland as John Ball Jr.
Mary Nash as Mrs. Jenny Ball
Franklin Pangborn as Van Buren
Luis Alberni as Mr. Louis Louis
Barlowe Borland as Mr. Gurney
William Demarest as Wallace Whistling
Top Crew
Mitchell Leisen · Director
Preston Sturges · Screenplay
Vera Caspary · Story
Victor Young · Composer
Gordon Jenkins · Composer
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