CRITERION COLLECTION: THE PALM BEACH STORY

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• Release Year: 1942
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Plot: This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges (The Lady Eve) takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea (Sullivan's Travels) and Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) 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 watermark 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.
• Cast: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno, Robert Warwick, Arthur Stuart Hull, Torben Meyer, Jimmy Conlin, Victor Potel, William Demarest, Jack Norton, Robert Greig, Roscoe Ates, Dewey Robinson, Chester Conklin, Sheldon Jett, Robert Dudley, Franklin Pangborn, Arthur Hoyt, Al Bridge, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Charles R. Moore, Frank Moran, Harry Rosenthal, Esther Howard, Barbara Jo Allen, Ernest Anderson, George Anderson, Wilson Benge, Monte Blue, Ralph Brooks, James Conaty, Marcelle Corday, Laurie Douglas, Frank Faylen, Bess Flowers, Byron Foulger, Alfred Hall, Sam Harris, Harry Hayden, John Holland, Mike Lally, J. Farrell MacDonald, Edward McNamara, Esther Michelson, Howard M. Mitchell, Bert Moorhouse, Mantan Moreland, Odette Myrtil, Lillian Randolph, Keith Richards, Julius Tannen, Harry Tyler, Max Wagner, Preston Sturges, Ernst Laemmle
• Director: Preston Sturges
• Runtime: 1:28
• Company: Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: Movie