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Free and Easy is a american film of genre Romantic comedy directed by Edward Buzzell with Robert Cummings
Free and Easy (1941)
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Add to a movie listFree and Easy is a 1941 film directed by George Sidney, and starring Robert Cummings and Ruth Hussey. The film is a remake of MGM's But the Flesh Is Weak (1932) with Robert Montgomery and C. Aubrey Smith as the son-and-father team.
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Synopsis
Max (Cummings) and his father (Bruce) are both looking to marry wealthy women, which would be easier if either one of them had any money of their own.Actors
Robert Cummings
(Max Clemington)
Ruth Hussey
(Martha Gray)
Judith Anderson
(Lady Joan Culver)
C. Aubrey Smith
(Duke Colver)
Nigel Bruce
(Florian Clemington)
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