Director: Preston Sturges
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee
Mrs. Jeffers (Colbert) decides to leave her husband because he can't pay the rent, and she feels that if he were free of her, he could really succeed and save his money. And, after all, she wants to be rich anyway, and have money while she's young and can enjoy it!
She runs away from her husband Tom Jeffers (McCrea), and takes a train to Palm Beach, Florida. On the train, she meets a multi-millionaire (Vallee), who falls for her and starts taking care of her. Meanwhile, her husband, still in love with her, flies down to Palm Beach to meet her and get her back. When she sees him, she tells her millionaire that he is her brother, and the fight is on for her heart. Her plan is to get a divorce from her husband, who supposedly won't give her a divorce until he is paid $99,000, or so she tells her millionaire, on purpose so that her husband will get his money.
Personally, I don't know why Tom Jeffers fights for his wife. Let her have her divorce- you're better off! That whole "for richer or poorer" phrase she obviously ignored.
Best part: "You have no idea what a long-legged woman can do without doing anything."
-Claudette Colbert in The Palm Beach Story
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