The Palm Beach Story
- Original title
- The Palm Beach Story
- Year
- 1942
- Running time
- 87 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Claudette Colbert
- Joel McCrea
- Mary Astor
- Rudy Vallee
- Siegfried Arno
- Robert Warwick
- Franklin Pangborn
- William Demarest
- Robert Dudley
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- Music
- Cinematography
Victor Milner (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Romance. Comedy | Screwball comedy. Romantic Comedy. Sophisticated Comedy
- Synopsis
- Penniless Geraldine "Gerry" Jeffers (Claudette Colbert), knows how far her good looks can take her in the world. She loves her husband, Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) but doesn't like being poor and he is unwilling to pimp her innocent feminine wiles. The solution? Leaving her husband for Palm Beach to file for a divorce with nothing more than the clothes on her back, she becomes one of the world's best dressed women before she can even set foot in the divorce captiol of the day. (If you know anything about Colbert's movies, you realize she can wear some stunning outfits.) Her gallant husband heads her off to convince her how irrational she is but is surprised to find her stepping off a yacht with a 1940's counterpart to Bill Gates, John D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee). So as not to foil her apparently successful plans, she introduces Tom as her brother -- which makes him an all-the-more attractive flavor of the week to a wealthy man's excentric sister, Princess Centimillia (Mary Astor). What is more important, love or money? Find out who ultimately wins Gerry's heart in this screwball romance story.
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