The Palm Beach Story
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 1, 2005
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Claudette Colbert & Joel McCrea | |
| Performer: | Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, William Demarest, Sig Arno, Robert Warwick, Torben Meyer & Victor Potel | |
| Directed by | Preston Sturges | |
| Edited by | Stuart Gilmore | |
| Screenwriting by | Preston Sturges | |
| Composition by | Victor Young | |
| Art Direction by | Hans Dreier & Ernst Fegté | |
| Produced by | Paul Jones | |
| Director of Photography: | Victor Milner |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Hilarious, irresistible, impeccably cast.
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Time Out
Rating: A- --
I was impressed with how modern the script was in both tone and candor.
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rachelsreviews.net
Leave it to Preston Sturges to create the sexiest and most grown-up romantic comedy of his day.
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Seanax.com
Rating: 4/5 --
In many ways this screwball comedy is a precursor to Some Like It Hot, but with a silkier wit and some gorgeous fashions.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 4.5/5 --
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.
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The Dissolve
This Prestton Sturges production is packed with delightful absurdities.
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Variety
It should have been a breathless comedy. But only the actors are breathless -- and that from talking so much.
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New York Times
Product Description:
In THE PALM BEACH STORY, directed by Preston Sturges, Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) dumps her husband because he has no money, then goes searching for a rich bachelor.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 119,425
- UPC: 025192685224
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