Free and Easy

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Free and Easy (1941)

NR 02/28/1941 (US) Romance, Comedy 56m

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This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max romances the much-older Lady Joan Culver before finding true love in the form of pretty heiress Martha Gray.

George Sidney

Director
Marvin Borowsky

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Top Billed Cast

Robert Cummings

Max Clemington
Ruth Hussey

Martha Gray
Judith Anderson

Lady Joan Culver
C. Aubrey Smith

The Duke
Nigel Bruce

Florian Clemington
Reginald Owen

Sir George Kelvin
Tom Conway

Captain Ferris

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A review by waltzma

80%

Written by waltzma on December 14, 2017

Charming low-budget comedy.

Robert Cummings and Nigel Bruce play a pair of son and father social climbers who prey on gracious but rather plain English lady Judith Anderson in this second feature from MGM in 1941. Of course, Cummings falls in love with another socialite, the prettier Ruth Hussey. This leads to a series of romantic complications when Anderson actually falls for Cummings.

This was just a year before Anderson and Cummings worked together in the Warner Brothers classic "King's Row". Anderson, who had made a splash the year earlier as the villainous Mrs. Danvers in "Rebecca" (... read the rest.

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