The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

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

Comedy Romance

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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  • Release Date: 1942-08-28
  • Runtime: 1h 28min
  • Director: Preston Sturges

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    • Trailer

    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

    • Sheldon Jett

      Seventh Member Ale and Quail Club

    • Robert Dudley

      Wienie King

    • Franklin Pangborn

      Manager

    • Arthur Hoyt

      Pullman Conductor

    • Al Bridge

      Conductor

    • Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

      Colored Bartender

    • Charles R. Moore

      Colored Porter

    • Frank Moran

      Brakeman

    • Harry Rosenthal

      Orchestra Leader

    • Esther Howard

      Wife of Wienie King

    • Frank Faylen

      Taxi Driver (uncredited)

    • J. Farrell MacDonald

      Officer O'Donnell (uncredited)

    • Edward McNamara

      Officer in Penn Station (uncredited)

    • Bert Moorhouse

      Diner on Train (uncredited)

    • Marcelle Corday

      Elderly Maid (uncredited)

    • Bess Flowers

      Gerry's Maid of Honor/Nightclub Extra (uncredited)

    • Max Wagner

      Tom's Best Man (uncredited)

    • Byron Foulger

      Jewelry Salesman (uncredited)

    • Joe Gilbert

      Store Employee (uncredited)

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