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The Palm Beach Story

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The Palm Beach Story
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NR,1hr 28min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1942
Director:
Preston Sturges
Distributor:
Universal Studios
Starring:
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor  ...more
Synopsis: As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not explained until the film's punch line), Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) are married. "And so they lived happily ever after," exults a title card, "...or did they?" Well, they didn't. After five years of marriage, Tom hasn't raised a dime with his pie-in-the-sky inventions. Using the sort of logic common to Sturges heroines, Gerry decides that ... Full Synopsis
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Richard Gilliam, AMG Review
The Palm Beach Story is yet another satirical gem from director Preston Sturges, who gives the story a cynical edge sharper than in other screwball comedies. In 1942, even as the Great Depression was giving way to the war-time economy of World War II, poking fun at the idle rich continued to be a popular comic motif. The film's title is less meaningful to current audiences than it was to moviegoers ... Full Review
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Claudette Colbert
Gerry Jeffers
Joel McCrea
Tom Jeffers
Mary Astor
Princess Centimillia
Rudy Vallee
John D. Hackensacker III
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