The Palm Beach Story 1942 Watch Free in HD

Struggling architect Tom Jeffers needs cash to develop his big idea. His wife, who loves him, decides to raise it for him by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.

Genre:

Romance, Comedy

Actors:

Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno, Robert Warwick, Arthur Stuart Hull, Torben Meyer, Jimmy Conlin, Victor Potel, William Demarest, ...»

Director:

Preston Sturges

Country:

United States

Release:

1942

IMDb:

7.5

Quality:

Duration:

88 min

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Rudy Vallee turns in his best performance as a gentle, puny millionaire named Hackensacker in this brilliant, simultaneously tender and scalding 1942 screwball comedy by Preston Sturges.

February 09, 2007

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Eric Melin

It's about as breezy, carefree, and anarchic as romantic comedies get. Full of absurd comedic digressions and bookends that still don't quite make sense, this eccentric road trip comedy would likely never get made in today's Hollywood climate.

February 28, 2015

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Variety Staff

This Prestton Sturges production is packed with delightful absurdities.

November 13, 2007

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Sean Axmaker

Leave it to Preston Sturges to create the sexiest and most grown-up romantic comedy of his day.

March 14, 2015

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Keith Phipps

Even as Colbert and McCrea trade fast-paced dialogue and fall into each others' arms, they sell their characters' marriage as one whose fire desperately needs tending.

February 04, 2015

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Bosley Crowther

It should have been a breathless comedy. But only the actors are breathless -- and that from talking so much.

May 20, 2003

Kate Muir

In many ways this screwball comedy is a precursor to Some Like It Hot, but with a silkier wit and some gorgeous fashions.

January 28, 2016

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James Kendrick

one of the outright funniest movies of its era, a veritable parade of wicked-rapid dialogue, absurdist narrative loops, and socially subversive attitude

February 07, 2015

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Lou Lumenick

This might not be the funniest film of Sturges' brilliant '40s heyday ("The Miracle of Morgan's Creek"), or the most subversively romantic ("The Lady Eve"), or the best made ("Sullivan's Travels"), but it's definitely a censor-baiting treat.

April 11, 2015

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