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The Palm Beach Story

Love is fickle! Love is blind! She runs 'round the country...with him behind!

1942 · NR · 1h 28m

Directed by Preston Sturges

7.0

TMDB audience score
219 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

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Cast

  • Claudette Colbert
    Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers

  • Joel McCrea
    Tom Jeffers

  • Mary Astor
    The Princess Centimillia

  • Rudy Vallee
    John D. Hackensacker III

  • Sig Arno
    Toto

  • Robert Warwick
    Mr. Hinch

  • Arthur Stuart Hull
    Mr. Osmond

  • Torben Meyer
    Dr. Kluck

  • Jimmy Conlin
    Mr. Asweld

  • Victor Potel
    Mr. McKeewie

  • William Demarest
    First Member Ale and Quail Club

  • Jack Norton
    Second Member Ale and Quail Club

  • Robert Greig
    Third Member Ale and Quail Club

  • Roscoe Ates
    Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club

  • Dewey Robinson
    Fifth Member Ale and Quail Club

  • Chester Conklin
    Sixth Member Ale and Quail Club

  • Sheldon Jett
    Seventh Member Ale and Quail Club

  • Robert Dudley
    Wienie King