The Palm Beach Story
“Love is fickle! Love is blind! She runs 'round the country...with him behind!”
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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Cast
35 people
Claudette Colbert
Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers
Known for
It Happened One Night
Drums Along the Mohawk
Joel McCrea
Tom Jeffers
Known for
Sullivan's Travels
Foreign Correspondent
Mary Astor
The Princess Centimillia
Known for
The Maltese Falcon
Meet Me in St. Louis
Rudy Vallee
John D. Hackensacker III
Known for
Unfaithfully Yours
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Sig Arno
Toto
Known for
Pandora's Box
The Mummy's Hand
Robert Warwick
Mr. Hinch
Known for
Sullivan's Travels
In a Lonely Place
Arthur Stuart Hull
Mr. Osmond
Also in
The Yankee Consul
Within the Law
Torben Meyer
Dr. Kluck
Known for
Judgment at Nuremberg
Sullivan's Travels
Jimmy Conlin
Mr. Asweld
Known for
Anatomy of a Murder
Hail the Conquering Hero
Victor Potel
Mr. McKeewie
Known for
Sullivan's Travels
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
William Demarest
First Member Ale and Quail Club
Known for
Sullivan's Travels
The Lady Eve
Jack Norton
Second Member Ale and Quail Club
Known for
The Bank Dick
The Spoilers
Preston Sturges Director · Victor Young Composer Victor Milner Cinematographer
Budget $950K · United States release December 10, 1942 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$950,000
Production
Paramount Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · August 28, 1942
Limited theatrical · London
United States · December 10, 1942
Limited theatrical · New York City, New York
United States
December 9, 1942 · Premiere · Greenville, South Carolina
December 17, 1942 · Limited theatrical · Detroit, Michigan
January 1, 1943 · Theatrical
Germany
December 17, 1942 · Digital
Italy
September 10, 1948 · Theatrical
Mexico
December 3, 1942 · Theatrical
Portugal
November 27, 1942 · Theatrical
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