Palm Beach Story, The
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Palm Beach Story, The
-- Daffy romantic comedy in which a wife (Claudette Colbert) tries to help her penniless inventor husband (Joel McCrea) by leaving him for a millionaire (Rudy Vallee) who has a marriage-minded sister (Mary Astor), but the husband's only concern is getting his wife back. Written and directed by Preston Sturges, the comic premise sets up a wacky variety of witty confusions and funny incidental characters, but the empty-headed, conniving wife adds a sour note to the otherwise entirely frivolous proceedings. Comic treatment of marriage. (A-III) (br)
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1942
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