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    The Palm Beach Story

    1943 · Comedy · 1h 30m

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  1. 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 decides to ...

    • Palm Beach

      Four people searching for different things wind up in Palm...

  2. Full of absurd comedic digressions and bookends that still don't quite make sense, this eccentric road trip comedy would likely never get made in today's Hollywood climate. Full Review | Original...

  3. The Palm Beach Story went on to garner positive reviews from the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes with a 97% positive rating based on 30 critic reviews. Retrospectively, the film has received critical acclaim for representing "the culmination of the great screwball comedy tradition of the 1930s." [15]

  4. The Palm Beach Story: Directed by Preston Sturges. 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.

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    • Comedy, Romance
    • Preston Sturges
    • 1943-01-01
  5. Jan 21, 2015 · The Palm Beach Story is the diamond bracelet of romantic comedies: glittering, extravagant in feeling and in laughs, representative of all the things you might buy in the moonlight and come to regret the next day—but just look at the thing!

  6. Four people searching for different things wind up in Palm Beach.

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  8. Jan 21, 2015 · What remains rates as “pretty good”: a radio adaptation of The Palm Beach Story and two video interviews, one with film historian James Harvey, the other with comedian Bill Hader. An accompanying booklet contains an essay by Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek.

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