The Palm Beach Story
Struggling architect Tom Jeffers needs cash to develop his big idea. His wife, who loves him, decides to raise it for him by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.
14 April 1875, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
2 September 1889, Brooklyn, New York, USA
5 January 1906, North Carolina, USA
23 April 1893, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 November 1882, Nova Scotia, Canada
6 March 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 April 1892, Helena, Montana, USA
18 March 1887, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
19 March 1873, Georgetown, Colorado, USA
17 August 1898, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
January 28, 2016
In many ways this screwball comedy is a precursor to Some Like It Hot, but with a silkier wit and some gorgeous fashions.
April 11, 2015
This might not be the funniest film of Sturges' brilliant '40s heyday ("The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"), or the most subversively romantic ("The Lady Eve"), or the best made ("Sullivan's Travels"), but it's definitely a censor-baiting treat.
February 07, 2015
one of the outright funniest movies of its era, a veritable parade of wicked-rapid dialogue, absurdist narrative loops, and socially subversive attitude
February 09, 2007
Rudy Vallee turns in his best performance as a gentle, puny millionaire named Hackensacker in this brilliant, simultaneously tender and scalding 1942 screwball comedy by Preston Sturges.
February 04, 2015
Even as Colbert and McCrea trade fast-paced dialogue and fall into each others' arms, they sell their characters' marriage as one whose fire desperately needs tending.
March 14, 2015
Leave it to Preston Sturges to create the sexiest and most grown-up romantic comedy of his day.
May 20, 2003
It should have been a breathless comedy. But only the actors are breathless -- and that from talking so much.
February 28, 2015
It's about as breezy, carefree, and anarchic as romantic comedies get. 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.
November 13, 2007
This Prestton Sturges production is packed with delightful absurdities.
