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TITLE Palm Beach Story, The (1942)

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DISABILITY Deaf VERY Minor

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 90

GENRE Comedy

DIRECTOR Preston Sturges

CAST Claudette Colbert

Joel McCrea

Mary Astor

Rudy Vallee

NOTES B/W.

Totally wonderful, crazy comedy with never a dull moment.

Great acting all round (Sturges used a repertory of players).

McCrea and Colbert are great, and Rudy Vallee is a

revelation. Colbert, the wife, thinks her husband, McCrea,

would do better without her and runs away to marry someone

rich who will give money to her ex-husband to finance his

invention. Early on we meet the rich Wienie King whose

deafness is used to comic effect without I hope offending

anyone.

 


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