Directed by Preston Sturges • 1942 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor
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-water mark 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.
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No Time for Love
Directed by Mitchell Leisen • 1943 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka ChaseLove blossoms in the unlikeliest of places—the muddy underground river tunnels of New York City—in this screwball delight directed with characteristic panache by Mitchell Leisen. After ace p...
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The Egg and I
Directed by Chester Erskine • 1947 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie MainBased on the humorous memoir by Betty MacDonald, this diverting fish-out-of-water comedy casts frequent screen partners Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray as a pair of Manhattan newlywe...
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Thunder on the Hill
Directed by Douglas Sirk • 1951 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Robert DouglasIntrigue unfolds within the cloistered world of a convent in this atmospheric mystery-melodrama from Douglas Sirk. A torrential rainstorm forces convicted murderer Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth)—who ...
