The Palm Beach Story (1942)
"Love is fickle! Love is blind! She runs 'round the country...with him behind!"
ThumbScore
👍 85%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 97%
(RT: 97%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Claudette Colbert as Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers
Joel McCrea as Tom Jeffers
Mary Astor as The Princess Centimillia
Rudy Vallee as John D. Hackensacker III
Sig Arno as Toto
Robert Warwick as Mr. Hinch
Arthur Stuart Hull as Mr. Osmond
Torben Meyer as Dr. Kluck
Is The Palm Beach Story good?
Yes. 85% audience score, estimated from 214 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 97%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
