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The Palm Beach Story (Criterion Collection)

The Palm Beach Story (Criterion Collection)

Paramount Pictures (1942)
Blu-ray
NR (Not Rated)
715515135917
Comedy | Romance
USA | English | Black & White | 01:28

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.


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Claudette Colbert Gerry Jeffers
Joel McCrea Tom Jeffers
Mary Astor The Princess Centimillia
Rudy Vallee J.D. Hackensacker III
Sig Arno Toto
Robert Warwick Mr. Hinch
Arthur Stuart Hull Mr. Osmond
Torben Meyer Dr. Kluck
Jimmy Conlin Mr. Asweld
Victor Potel Mr. McKeewie
William Demarest First Member Ale and Quail Club
Jack Norton Second Member Ale and Quail Club
Robert Greig Third Member Ale and Quail Club
Roscoe Ates Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
Dewey Robinson Fifth Member Ale and Quail Club
Chester Conklin Sixth Member Ale and Quail Club
Sheldon Jett Seventh Member Ale and Quail Club
Robert Dudley Wienie King
Franklin Pangborn Manager
Arthur Hoyt Pullman Conductor
Al Bridge Conductor
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones Colored Bartender
Charles R. Moore Colored Porter
Frank Moran Brakeman
Harry Rosenthal Orchestra Leader

Trailer

Edition details

Edition The Criterion Collection
Packaging HD Case
Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios Academy Ratio (1.37:1)
Audio Tracks LPCM Mono [English]
Subtitles English (SDH)
Distributor Criterion Collection
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Jan 20, 2015
Regions Region A

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Index 2152
Added Date Dec 26, 2018 14:29:08
Modified Date Jun 12, 2022 00:34:49

Notes

Beth's movie.
Christmas 2018 gift from me


SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interview with writer and film historian James Harvey about director Preston Sturges
New interview with actor and comedian Bill Hader about Sturges
Safeguarding Military Information, a 1941 World War II propaganda short written by Sturges
Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation of the film from March 1943
PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
New cover by Maurice Vellekoop

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