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The Palm Beach Story (1942) - The Zipper II

Director: Preston Sturges With Joel McCrea & Claudette Colbert

The Palm Beach Story Trailer (French Subtitles) (1942)

The Palm Beach Story Trailer (French Subtitles) (1942)

The Palm Beach Story 1942 - Bookshelf


The Palm Beach story, screenplay
314 pages
The Palm Beach story, screenplay


Reading Cavell
262 pages
Reading Cavell

After Cavell drops an aside about Preston Sturges's The Palm Beach Story (1942), he at once passes on, never again to mention that remarkable film. ...

The Palm Beach Story 1942 - News


TV and art films: April 29 to May 5
"The Palm Beach Story" (1942; 9:45 pm) has crackpot inventor McCrea trying to win back estranged wife Claudette Colbert, as each is wooed respectively by millionaire siblings Mary Astor and Rudy Vallee. Only Sturges could have pulled off the surreal

The Roundup: The week's TV picks, podcast connections, and more
The Roundup: The week's TV picks, podcast connections, and more Wednesday The Palm Beach Story (1942) (TCM @ 6:45pm), "Modern Family" (ABC @ 9pm), "Don't Trust The B---- In Apartment 23" (ABC @ 9:30pm), "America Revealed" Made In The USA (PBS SoCal/KOCE @ 10pm), Amy Poehler and Daniel Dae Kim on Fallon.

Three cheers for Sue Heck
Joel McCrea stars in two comedy masterpieces directed by Preston Sturges: 1941's "Sullivan's Travels" (8 pm, TCM) and 1942's "The Palm Beach Story" (9:45 pm, TCM). "Survivor" (8 pm, CBS, TV-PG) Pranks on "Betty White's Off Their Rockers" (8 pm,

Romney calls proposed Wright ads the 'wrong course'
Romney calls proposed Wright ads the 'wrong course' Romney had initially passed on commenting this morning, saying he hadn't seen the story, before taping a radio interview this morning condemning the proposal. Mary Altaffer / AP Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, speaks May 17 at the River

Mother-Daughter Share Deep Commitment to Service
Back in 1942, Kurtz joined in the women's reserve of the Coast Guard in World War II. Under the leadership of Captain Dorothy Stratton, the reserve became known as SPARs, a combination of the Coast Guard motto, "Semper Paratus" and its English