The Palm Beach Story is a 1942 romantic screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor and Rudy Vallée. Victor Young contributed the lively musical score, including a fast-paced variation of William Tell Overture for the opening scenes. Typical for a Sturges movie, the pacing and dialogue of The Palm Beach Story are very fast.
Thomas and Geraldine Jeffers (Joel McCrea and Cla...
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The Palm Beach Story is a 1942 romantic screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor and Rudy Vallée. Victor Young contributed the lively musical score, including a fast-paced variation of William Tell Overture for the opening scenes. Typical for a Sturges movie, the pacing and dialogue of The Palm Beach Story are very fast.
Thomas and Geraldine Jeffers (Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert) are a married couple in New York City who are down on their luck financially, which is pushing the marriage to an end. But, there is another deeper issue with their relationship. One that is brought up in the first sequence of the movie as the opening credits roll, but many people miss.
In the opening sequence we see Claudette Colbert bound and gagged in a closet, but then we see her a second later in a wedding dress, caught by the maid with a penchant for fainting at every emotional conflict. Colbert is playing twins, both of...
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