Martini and a Movie: "Easy Living" (Free show!) September 27, 2011

New York City has been a setting and subject matter for movies since the art form began more than 100 years ago. Over the next 10 months, the Fairfield Theatre Company's "Martini And A Movie" series will screen comedies and dramas - old and new - that show us NYC in all of its glory and that bring to life memorable characters who could only exist there.

"Easy Living" is a 1937 classic starring Jean Arthur as an office worker minding her own business, when a mink coat tossed out of an apartment window lands on her head, turning her into an instant celebrity. Legendary Hollywood screenwriter Preston Sturges shows us how event at the height of financial crises, New York City always remains a place dreamers gather. The movie launched Arthur as one of the greatest romantic comediennes of her time and made Sturges a hot property in Hollywood. He would go on to write and direct a series of classic comedies including "The Lady Eve" and "Sullivan's Travels."