Cast
- Jean Arthur as Mary Smith
- Edward Arnold as J.B. Ball
- Ray Milland as John Ball Jr.
- Luis Alberni as Mr. Louis Louis
- Mary Nash as Mrs. Jenny Ball
- Franklin Pangborn as Van Buren (the hat shop proprietor who starts the misunderstanding)
- Barlowe Borland as Mr. Gurney
- William Demarest as Wallace Whistling (the gossip columnist who makes Mary famous)
- Andrew Tombes as E.F. Hulgar
- Esther Dale as Lillian, J.B.'s secretary
- Harlan Briggs as Office manager
- William B. Davidson as Mr. Hyde
- Nora Cecil as Miss Swerf
- Robert Greig as Graves, Ball's butler
Cast notes:
- Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold starred together in 1935's Diamond Jim, also written by Sturges.
- This was the second film written by Preston Sturges that William Demarest appeared in, after Diamond Jim, and he would go on to do eight others.
- Franklin Pangborn, another member of Sturges' de facto stock company, first worked with the writer on Imitation of Life (1934). In 1937, before working on Easy Living, he appeared in Hotel Haywire, and subsequently in seven other of Sturges' productions.
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