Claudette Colbert
Geraldine "Gerry" Jeffers
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The Palm Beach Story is a 1942 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor and Rudy Vallée. Victor Young contributed the musical score, including a fast-paced variation of the William Tell Overture for the opening scenes.
With Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee. A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.
- (13K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Preston Sturges
- 1943-01-01
Palm Beach Story, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) My Brother, Captain McGlue Now in Palm Beach with billionaire beau Hackensacker (Rudy Vallee), Gerry (Claudette Colbert) introduces his oft-married sister (Mary Astor) to her unexpected husband Tom (Joel McCrea), who had arrived intending to end her elaborate scam, in Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach ...
- Preston Sturges, Hal Walker
- Claudette Colbert
The Palm Beach Story (1942) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Watchlist. This screwball comedy finds married couple Tom (Joel McCrea) and Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) in a strained relationship, largely due to financial difficulties. Gerry...
- (31)
- Claudette Colbert
- Preston Sturges
- Comedy
The Palm Beach Story. 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.
The captivating Claudette Colbert stars as the frustrated wife of struggling engineer Joel McCrea. In a seemingly amicable agreement, Colbert hops a train to Palm Beach where divorces come easy...
