The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Comedy, General Film

Director: Preston Sturges

Writer(s): Preston Sturges, Ernst Laemmle

Starring: 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, Ernest Anderson, George Anderson, Wilson Benge, Monte Blue, Ralph Brooks, James Carlisle, James Conaty, Marcelle Corday, Oliver Cross, Laurie Douglas, Frank Faylen, Tom Ferrandini, Bess Flowers, Byron Foulger, Joe Gilbert, Alfred Hall, Sam Harris, Harry Hayden, John Holland, Mike Lally, J. Farrell MacDonald, Edward McNamara, Charles Meakin, Esther Michelson, Howard M. Mitchell, Bert Moorhouse, Mantan Moreland, Odette Myrtil, Monty O’Grady, Paul Power, Lillian Randolph, Keith Richards, Julius Tannen, Harry Tyler, Max Wagner

Synopsis: Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.

Release Date: January 1, 1943 (USA) | Length: 88 min | Genre: Comedy | Certificate: Passed