The Palm Beach Story
Summary:
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 ha... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Claudette Colbert - (Gerry Jeffers)
Joel McCrea - (Tom Jeffers)
Mary Astor - (Princess Centimillia)
Rudy Vallee - (John D. Hackensacker III)
William Demarest - (Members of Ale & Quail Club)
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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 ... Continue >>
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