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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.

19421h 28mNRComedy, Romance

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About The Palm Beach Story

Directors
Preston Sturges
Cast
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno, Robert Warwick
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Content rating
NR
Original language
English
Production countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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