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The Palm Beach Story

Director: Preston Sturges Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 1942

Starring: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno

Preston Sturges was a comedic genius, and this railway road movie is one of his best films. Nutty wife Colbert up and leaves her inventor husband and heads to Palm Beach by train to get a divorce, with jilted hubby hot on her trail. Mistaken identity, a loopy millionaire, the meddling of the boisterous “Ale and Quail Club,” and an inexplicable pair of twins follow as well.

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