The Palm Beach Story (Criterion Collection)

Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee. A screwball comedy about an angry woman who runs away from her husband to Palm Beach, meeting up with an eccentric millionairess and her bumbling brother. The new digital restoration features an interview with writer and film historian James Harvey about director Preston Sturges, a new interview with actor and comedian Bill Hader also about Sturges, Safeguarding Military Information, a 1941 WWII propoganda short written by Sturges, a Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation of the film from March 1943, an essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek and more. 1942/b&w/88 min/NR/fullscreen.