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The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story

1942, Movie, 1h 28min

This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair’s money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner. A mix of the witty and the utterly absurd, THE PALM BEACH STORY is a high-water mark of Sturges’s brand of physical comedy and verbal repartee, featuring sparkling performances from its leads as well as hilarious supporting turns from Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor as a brother and a sister ensnared in Tom and Gerry’s high jinks.

Country: United States

Director:

Preston Sturges

Cast:

Bert Moorhouse,

J. Farrell MacDonald

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Palm Beach Story include Holiday Inn, The Shop Around the Corner, To Help the Lady of the House, Mister Max, A Damsel in Distress, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek.

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The Palm Beach Story was released in theaters on January 1, 1943.