The Palm Beach Story (1942)

1942 · Feature film · 87 min · dir. Preston Sturges

Love is fickle! Love is blind! She runs 'round the country...with him behind!

• Romance
• Comedy

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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.

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Details

Director

Preston Sturges

Writer

Preston Sturges

Composer

Victor Young

Cinematography

Victor Milner

Studio

Paramount Pictures

Released

1942-08-28

Running time

87 minutes

Cast & crew

• Preston Sturges Director
• Claudette Colbert
• Joel McCrea
• Mary Astor
• Rudy Vallee
• Sig Arno
• Robert Warwick
• Arthur Stuart Hull
• Torben Meyer

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