The Palm Beach Story
“Love is fickle! Love is blind! She runs 'round the country...with him behind!”
19421h 28mComedy · Romance
Released
August 28, 1942
TMDB Score
70% match · 218 votes
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About the Movie
Synopsis
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.
DirectorPreston Sturges
- Released
- August 28, 1942
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
Top Billed Cast
Claudette Colbert
Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers
Joel McCrea
Tom Jeffers
Mary Astor
The Princess Centimillia
Rudy Vallee
John D. Hackensacker III
Sig Arno
Toto
Robert Warwick
Mr. Hinch
Arthur Stuart Hull
Mr. Osmond
Torben Meyer
Dr. Kluck
Jimmy Conlin
Mr. Asweld
Victor Potel
Mr. McKeewie
William Demarest
First Member Ale and Quail Club
Jack Norton
Second Member Ale and Quail Club
Robert Greig
Third Member Ale and Quail Club
Roscoe Ates
Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
Dewey Robinson
Fifth Member Ale and Quail Club
Chester Conklin
Sixth Member Ale and Quail Club
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