Fresh
This Prestton Sturges production is packed with delightful absurdities.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Palm Beach Story
Love is fickle! Love is blind! She runs 'round the country...with him behind!
1942 · 1h 28m · Passed
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Preston Sturges
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The Palm Beach Story
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Preston Sturges Director
- Claudette Colbert as Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers
- Joel McCrea as Tom Jeffers
- Mary Astor as The Princess Centimillia
- Rudy Vallee as John D. Hackensacker III
- Sig Arno as Toto
- Robert Warwick as Mr. Hinch
- Arthur Stuart Hull as Mr. Osmond
- Torben Meyer as Dr. Kluck
- Jimmy Conlin as Mr. Asweld
- Victor Potel as Mr. McKeewie
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
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
Fresh
Hilarious, irresistible, impeccably cast.
Time Out
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
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