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Love is fickle! Love is is blind! She runs 'round the country...with him behind!
Love is fickle! Love is is blind! She runs 'round the country...with ...
Comedy, Romance - 1942
The Palm Beach Story
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Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.
Director:
,
Preston Sturges
Cast:
,
Torben Meyer
,
Mary Astor
,
Joel McCrea
,
Claudette Colbert
,
Robert Warwick
,
Sig Arno
,
Rudy Vallee
,
Jimmy Conlin
,
Victor Potel
,
Arthur Stuart Hull

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Rated:
PASSED
Runtime:
88 min
Release date:
28 Aug 1942
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Sturges' dialogue, as always, is not only sharp, but cutting, delivered with typical flair by the charter members of Sturges' company of actors.
– ,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jul 2002
fresh:
Hilarious, irresistible, impeccably cast.
– ,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
Rudy Vallee turns in his best performance as a gentle, puny millionaire named Hackensacker in this brilliant, simultaneously tender and scalding 1942 screwball comedy by Preston Sturges.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
9 Feb 2007
fresh:
This Prestton Sturges production is packed with delightful absurdities.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
13 Nov 2007
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