The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story

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

1942•1h 28m•7.0/10

ComedyRomance

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.0/10(205)

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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Production

Paramount Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert

Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers

Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Tom Jeffers

Mary Astor

Mary Astor

The Princess Centimillia

Rudy Vallee

Rudy Vallee

John D. Hackensacker III

Sig Arno

Sig Arno

Toto

Robert Warwick

Robert Warwick

Mr. Hinch

Arthur Stuart Hull

Arthur Stuart Hull

Mr. Osmond

Torben Meyer

Torben Meyer

Dr. Kluck

Jimmy Conlin

Jimmy Conlin

Mr. Asweld

Victor Potel

Victor Potel

Mr. McKeewie

William Demarest

William Demarest

First Member Ale and Quail Club

Jack Norton

Jack Norton

Second Member Ale and Quail Club

Robert Greig

Robert Greig

Third Member Ale and Quail Club

Roscoe Ates

Roscoe Ates

Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club

Dewey Robinson

Dewey Robinson

Fifth Member Ale and Quail Club

Chester Conklin

Chester Conklin

Sixth Member Ale and Quail Club

Sheldon Jett

Seventh Member Ale and Quail Club

Robert Dudley

Robert Dudley

Wienie King

Franklin Pangborn

Franklin Pangborn

Manager

Arthur Hoyt

Arthur Hoyt

Pullman Conductor

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