DVD
The Palm Beach story
Call Number
- DVD COMEDY (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, William Demarest, Sig Arno, Robert Warwick, Arthur Stuart Hull.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
In a seemingly amicable agreement, Gerry, the frustrated wife of a struggling engineer, hops a train to Palm Beach where divorces come easy. Desperate to escape a group of obnoxious millionaires on the train to Florida, she hides out in a sleeping car where she meets, unbeknownst to her, one of the world's richest men, who is relentless in his attempt to romance her. Upon their arrival in Palm Beach, Gerry is met by her husband who has come to claim her back, only to find that the rich man's man-crazy sister is after him!
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1942.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; new interview with writer and film historian James Harvey ; new interview with actor and comedian Bill Hader ; Safeguarding military information, a 1941 World War II propaganda short written by Preston Sturges ; Screen guild theater radio adaptation of the film from March 1943.