"hoopla digital." . . "Inventors Drama." . . "Comédies (cinéma)" . . "Man-woman relationships." . . "Man-woman relationships Drama." . . "Spouses Drama." . . "Married people United States Drama." . . "Married people." . . "Florida" . . "Paramount Pictures, Inc.," . . . . "United States." . . "Palm Beach (Fla.)" . . "Paramours Drama." . . "Criterion Collection (Firm)," . . "Marital conflict Drama." . . "Universal Pictures (Firm)," . . . . "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en . . . . "Among the earliest writers to set his sights on the director's chair, Preston Sturges brought a frank, unsentimental view of the war between the sexes to his mid-'40s features that exemplify his style, as demonstrated in this prescient 1942 gem. Architect Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and his wife, Gerry (Claudette Colbert), further refine the archetypal Sturges couple--the male embodying strength, idealism, and a certain naivete, the female ultimately stronger, smarter, and (as revealed early on in an astonishing speech by Colbert) clearer-eyed and more pragmatic about the subtext of sex. This giddy shaggy-dog story follows the couple's split, and Gerry's subsequent flight to Palm Beach. This head-snapping frolic is paced by double-entendres and lampooning looks at the very rich, with standout performances by the predatory Princess Centimillia (the delicious Mary Astor), who's more than ready to comfort Tom, and the wealthy, dim-witted John D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee, staking out a new career, post-crooner, as comic foil), Gerry's new suitor. Even the predictable reunion of the star-crossed lovers is achieved with an antic surrealism. Sturges's strength in building strong character ensembles is matched by his affection for coupling screwball dialogue with physical slapstick, seldom to better effect than in the drunken target practice of the Ale and Quail Club, who make Colbert's train ride to Florida a different kind of shoot-'em-up. --Sam Sutherland --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition. DVD." . . . . "Comedy films" . "Comedy films"@en . "The Palm Beach story"@en . "The Palm Beach story" . . . . . . "The Palm Beach story (Film)" . . . . . . . . . "A comedy satire on the rich in which a poor engineer's wife runs away to Florida in search of a millionaire husband who will finance her first husband's inventions." . . . . . . . "Madame et ses Flirts" . . . . "A young wife leaves her husband and heads for Palm Beach where she meets one of the world's richest men. When the husband shows up to reclaim his wife, the millionaire's man-mad sister falls for him."@en . . . . . "Eine Frau hat das Leben an der Seite ihres mausarmen Mannes satt und beschliesst, sich scheiden zu lassen und sich dann einen Milionär zu angeln." . "A young wife leaves her husband and heads for Palm Beach where she meets one of the world's richest men. When the husband shows up to reclaim his wife, the millionaire's man-mad sister falls for him!" . "A young wife leaves her husband and heads for Palm Beach where she meets one of the world's richest men. When the husband shows up to reclaim his wife, the millionaire's man-mad sister falls for him!"@en . . . "Academy Award winner Claudette Colbert stars as a pretty, but destitute fortune-hunting wife who is forced to fend for her naive architect husband. She travels to Florida to obtain a divorce and, using her beauty, ingenuity, luck and charm, seeks cash support for a multi-millionaire to advance her husband's career. Coupling his trademark screwball dialogue with physical slapstick, Struges builds the film to a dizzying, hilarious cilimax. Summary from container insert."@en . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Drama" . . "Drama"@en . . . "A wife walks out on her husband and heads for Palm Beach. Her train trip includes a wild escapade in the club car with a group of rich sportsmen. In Palm Beach, one of the world's richest men tries to steal her heart, but the arrival of her husband creates complications." . . . "\"A bride and groom are inexplicably prevented from attending their wedding by their exact doubles, who then marry. Six years later, Tom and Gerry Jeffer's Park Avenue apartment manager shows their apartment to prospective tenants while they are still in residence because they are behind in rent. An elderly sausage manufacturer, known as the 'Wienie King, ' who is looking at the apartment is so smitten by Gerry that he gives her $700 to pay all the bills. Gerry is tired of being broke and is doubly frustrated because Tom, a struggling architect, has continually rejected her attempts to use her beauty to get financial backers for his projects. Although she is still in love with Tom, Gerry so firmly believes that she has held her husband back that she leaves him, despite his earnest efforts to deter her. At Pennsylvania Station, Gerry uses her feminine wiles to get the Ale and Quail Club, a men's hunting club that has reserved an entire car, to buy her a ticket on the train headed for Palm Beach, Florida. The Club proves too rowdy, however, and after the men shoot out the windows she escapes into a sleeper car, where she accidentally breaks John D. Hackensacker III's spectacles while climbing into the upper berth. In the morning, Gerry discovers that the conductors have disconnected the Club's car because of their unruliness and have thereby left her without her suitcase. John, one of the wealthiest men in the world, takes an interest in Gerry and disembarks with her in Jacksonville, Florida. There the normally frugal multimillionaire takes pleasure in buying Gerry an entire wardrobe of extravagant clothes and a ruby bracelet. Gerry is thrilled when she discovers she has made the acquaintance of one of the richest men in the world, and accompanies him on his yacht to Palm Beach. When she sees Tom waiting at the dock for her, Gerry introduces him as her brother, 'Captain McGloo.' John's sister, the much-divorced Princess Maud Centimillia, who is ready to discard yet another suitor, Toto, immediately makes advances toward Tom. Gerry and Tom stay at the Hackensacker mansion, and while John woos Gerry, Maud woos Tom. Gerry, meanwhile, successfully interests John in becoming a financial backer of Tom's plans for a suspended airport. One evening, John, who has fallen in love with Gerry, serenades her underneath her balcony to the accompaniment of an orchestra, not realizing that he is providing the romantic background for Gerry and Tom to reunite. The next morning, Gerry gently rejects John's marriage proposal and reveals to a stunned John and Maud that she and Tom are not brother and sister, but are husband and wife. Always pragmatic, John vows to fulfill his commitment as a backer for Tom's project, and he and Maud are delighted when they learn that Tom and Gerry have twin siblings. A joint marriage soon takes place\"--AFI catalog, 1941-1950."@en . . "The Palm Beach Story" . . "\"Tom and Gerry are a married New York couple who are on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair's money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner\"--Container."@en . . . "The Palm Beach story Atemlos nach Florida" . . . . "\"Money makes the world go 'round, or so Gerry (Claudette Colbert) believes when she decides to divorce her struggling husband (Joel McCrea) to support him by marrying a millionaire.\""@en . . "Sophisticated comedies" . "Sophisticated comedies"@en . . "Fiction films"@en . . "Fiction films" . . . "A comedy of love and money, divorce and marriage, brothers and sisters."@en . "Mariée depuis 5 ans à Tom, Gerry Jeffers est lasse des déboires financiers dans lesquels senlise son couple et dont elle tient son inventeur de mari comme responsable. Aussi, dun commun accord, ils décident de se séparer, pensant réussir chacun de son côté. Gerry rencontre alors un milliardaire qui désire lépouser, mais son amour pour Tom est toujours aussi fort." . "A young wife leaves her husband and heads for Palm Beach where she meets one of the world's richest men, who then proceeds to ardently chase her. When the husband shows up to reclaim his wife, the millionaire's man-mad sister falls for the husband, ardently chasing him." . . . . . . . . . . "Films for the hearing impaired"@en . . . "Sophisticated comedy films" . "The Palm beach story" . . . . "A woman leaves her husband and heads for Palm Beach and fun. There, she meets a pompous rich man, but her husband shows up to reclaim her."@en . . . . "comédie (fiction)" . . "Palm Beach story (Motion picture)"@en . . . . . . "Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple who are on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair's money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner."@en . "The Palm beach story. [Trailer]" . . . . . "Features" . "Features"@en . . . . . . . . "Advertising" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Feature films" . "Feature films"@en . . "The palm beach story" . "Palm Beach story" . "Madame et ses flirts" . . . . . . . . . . . . "Romantic comedy films"@en . "The Palm Beach story = Ritrovarsi" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Geraldine \"Gerry\" Jeffers (Colbert) is the frustrated wife of a struggling engineer, Tom (McCrea). In a seemingly amicable agreement, Gerry catches a train to Palm Beach where divorces come easy. Desperate to escape a group of obnoxious millionaires on the train, she hides in a sleeping car where she meets, unbeknownst to her, one of the world's richest men, John D. Hackensacker III (Vallee) who is relentless in his attempt to romance her. On arriving in Florida, Gerry is met by her husband who has come to claim her back, only to find that Hackensacker's sister is after him!" . . "The captivating Claudette Colbert stars as the frustrated wife of struggling engineer Joel McCrea. In a seemingly amicable agreement, Colbert hops a train to Palm Beach where divorces come easy. Desperate to escape a group of obnoxious millionaires on the train to Florida, Colbert hides out in a sleeping car where she meets, unbeknownst to her, one of the world's richest men (Rudy Vallee) who is relentless in his attempt to romance her. Upon their arrival in Palm Beach, Colbert is met by her husband who has come to claim her back only to find that Vallee's man-crazy sister (Mary Astor) is after him! The foursome's story unfolds through intensely humorous dialogue, flirtatious situations and a splendid soundtrack."@en . . . . . . . . . "Cinéma Etats-Unis." . .