The Palm Beach Story

Comedy in which a woman runs away from her unfeeling husband, decides to take a holiday in Florida and meets an eccentric millionairess., Screwball romp about a wife who decides to aid her struggling-inventor husband by divorcing him, marrying a rich man and then acting as her ex’s benefactress, so she heads to Florida, playground to a boozy bunch of wacky millionaires., In this delightful screwball comedy, Tom Jeffers hasn’t raised a dime with his pie-in-the-sky inventions. His wife Gerry decides that the only way to help her husband is to divorce him, marry a wealthy man, and use the second husband’s money to finance Tom’s schemes.