The Palm Beach Story
This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple 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. A mix of the witty and the utterly absurd, The Palm Beach Story is a high watermark of Sturges’s brand of physical comedy and verbal repartee, featuring sparkling performances from its leads as well as hilarious supporting turns from Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor as a brother and a sister ensnared in Tom and Gerry’s high jinks.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with writer and film historian James Harvey about director Preston Sturges
- New interview with actor and comedian Bill Hader about Sturges
- Safeguarding Military Information, a 1941 World War II propaganda short written by Sturges
- Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation of the film from March 1943
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
New cover by Maurice Vellekoop
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with writer and film historian James Harvey about director Preston Sturges
- New interview with actor and comedian Bill Hader about Sturges
- Safeguarding Military Information, a 1941 World War II propaganda short written by Sturges
- Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation of the film from March 1943
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
New cover by Maurice Vellekoop
Cast
- Claudette Colbert
- Gerry Jeffers
- Joel McCrea
- Tom Jeffers
- Mary Astor
- The Princess Centimillia
- Rudy Vallee
- J.D. Hackensacker III
- Robert Warwick
- Mr. Hinch
- Jimmy Conlin
- Mr. Asweld
- William Demarest
- First member, Ale and Quail Club
- Franklin Pangborn
- Manager
- Arthur Hoyt
- Pullman conductor
- Alan Bridge
- Conductor
Credits
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Director of photography
- Victor Milner
- Music
- Victor Young
- Art direction
- Hans Dreier
- Art direction
- Ernst Fegté
- Editor
- Stuart Gilmore
- Ms. Colbert’s gowns by
- Irene
- Makeup artist
- Wally Westmore
- Sound
- Harry Lindgren
- Sound
- Walter Oberst
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