- HD 1080
- Runtime: 95m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Norman Taurog
- Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark
- keywords: screwball comedy, technicolor, faking illness
- Production_studio: Paramount Pictures
- Slogan: THEY'RE LAFFIN' IT UP!
- The Living It Up is featured in the top rankings of 1954
- #21 in Top Comedy Movies of 1954
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.