{"id":11,"date":"2008-12-02T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T23:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11"},"modified":"2025-03-23T21:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T01:39:58","slug":"the-palm-beach-story-1942-preston-sturges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11","title":{"rendered":"The Palm Beach Story (1942, Preston Sturges)"},"content":{"rendered":"

An update of one of my earliest entries. Practically all I wrote last time was “funniest movie ever, when drinking.”<\/p>\n

Stubborn failed inventor Joel McRea (fresh off Sullivan’s Travels<\/a><\/em>) is in love with his wife Claudette Colbert (puffy-cheeked oscar-winner, played the modern girlfriend in The Smiling Lieutenant<\/a><\/em>). Thanks to a random cash infusion by the Weenie King (below), she’s able to leave him and go searching for a new husband, a rich one, so she can support Joel’s ridiculous airplane net idea.
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Along the way she meets… William “Muggsy” Demarest!
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And other members of the Ale & Quail club, who torment her until she almost crawls into bed with this extremely rich Rockefeller stand-in (played by former megaphone crooner Rudy Vallee, who would appear in two more Sturges movies)
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Ah, but Joel also got random cash from the Weenie King and flew down to intercept her. He’s caught in a web of lies and ends up an object of lust of Rudy’s flighty sister Mary Astor (who was on a roll, having just won an oscar and starred in The Maltese Falcon<\/em>)
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Toto ain’t too happy with this, since he was after Mary Astor before Joel arrived.
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Uh oh, Joel and Claudette are still in love. How can we keep nice rich guy Rudy from being disappointed and keep our happy-again couple from returning to their life of poverty?
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Easy: Joel and Claudette are both identical twins<\/strong>, and their twins marry the lusty megawealthy siblings for an extremely goofy happy ending!
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Katy wasn’t too sure about the goofy happy ending, because she’s unable to be satisfied by any comedy that does not star Reese Witherspoon (see also My Man Godfrey<\/a><\/em>). We both thought Joel needed to lighten up a bit. It’s hard to be the straight man.<\/p>\n

March 2025:<\/strong> Watched again with K’s mom, who pronounced it “weird.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An update of one of my earliest entries. Practically all I wrote last time was “funniest movie ever, when drinking.” Stubborn failed inventor Joel McRea (fresh off Sullivan’s Travels) is in love with his wife Claudette Colbert (puffy-cheeked oscar-winner, played the modern girlfriend in The Smiling Lieutenant). Thanks to a random cash infusion by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,380,470,1224,228,3391,294],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-claudette-colbert","tag-identical-twins","tag-joel-mccrea","tag-preston-sturges","tag-remarriage","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17452,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/17452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}