 | THE PALM BEACH STORY
rating: 4
This is a great comedy to add to anyone's DVD movie library. I have watched it a couple of times because it is so funny and I loved hearing singer, Rudy Vallie's rendition of "Goodnight Sweetheart" with a full orchestra. Of course the leading actors, Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea did an outstanding job in their roles.
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Great!
rating: 5
I love the old movies, and I was not born during that time. Goofy humor, sweet story. Love Claudette Colbert!
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Fantastic Campy Film
rating: 4
This film is a riot--definitely not a film to take seriously, but just a fun romp in another reality (yes, based in FL, but still I don't think this could ever happen).
If you don't care for situations that are campy and silly and a whole lot of air...this isn't the film for you. But if you enjoy all those things, then you'll probably love this film.
Just leave logic and sense at the door and have a good time watching this film.
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The Palm Beach Story
rating: 5
Preston Sturges's inspired romantic romp remains delightfully kooky and fresh. McCrea and Colbert create divinely combustible chemistry, and Astor almost steals the picture as the zany heiress (her title alone is priceless). And watch out for Sturges's peerless group of comic stock players (including stand-by William Demarest), seen here in the guise of "The Ale and Quail Club". Irresistible fun.
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"Useless wife" in demand (recommended)
rating: 5
Penniless Geraldine "Gerry" Jeffers (Claudette Colbert), knows how far her good looks can take her in the world. She loves her husband, Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) but doesn't like being poor and he is unwilling to pimp her innocent feminine wiles. The solution? Leaving her husband for Palm Beach to file for a divorce with nothing more than the clothes on her back, she becomes one of the world's best dressed women before she can even set foot in the divorce captiol of the day. (If you know anything about Colbert's movies, you realize she can wear some stunning outfits.) Her gallant husband heads her off to convince her how irrational she is but is surprised to find her stepping off a yacht with a 1940's counterpart to Bill Gates, John D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee). So as not to foil her apparently successful plans, she introduces Tom as her brother -- which makes him an all-the-more attractive flavor of the week to a wealthy man's excentric sister, Princess Centimillia (Mary Astor). What is more important, love or money? Find out who ultimately wins Gerry's heart in this screwball romance story.
Movie quote: "Just because I'm a useless wife doesn't mean I couldn't be very valuable to you as a sister."
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