The Palm Beach Story

Love is fickle! Love is is blind! She runs 'round the country...with him behind!

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.

Comedy Romance

Claudette Colbert

(Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers)

Joel McCrea

(Tom Jeffers)

Mary Astor

(The Princess Centimillia)

Rudy Vallee

(John D. Hackensacker III)

Sig Arno

(Toto)

Robert Warwick

(Mr. Hinch)

Arthur Stuart Hull

(Mr. Osmond)

Torben Meyer

(Dr. Kluck)

Jimmy Conlin

(Mr. Asweld)

Victor Potel

(Mr. McKeewie)

William Demarest

(First Member Ale and Quail Club)

Jack Norton

(Second Member Ale and Quail Club)

Robert Greig

(Third Member Ale and Quail Club)

Roscoe Ates

(Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club)

Dewey Robinson

(Fifth Member Ale and Quail Club)

Chester Conklin

(Sixth Member Ale and Quail Club)

Sheldon Jett

(Seventh Member Ale and Quail Club)

Robert Dudley

(Wienie King)

Franklin Pangborn

(Manager)

Arthur Hoyt

(Pullman Conductor)

Al Bridge

(Conductor)

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

(Colored Bartender)

Charles R. Moore

(Colored Porter)

Frank Moran

(Brakeman)

Harry Rosenthal

(Orchestra Leader)

Esther Howard

(Wife of Wienie King)

Frank Faylen

(Taxi Driver (uncredited))

J. Farrell MacDonald

(Officer O'Donnell (uncredited))

Edward McNamara

(Officer in Penn Station (uncredited))

Bert Moorhouse

(Diner on Train (uncredited))

Marcelle Corday

(Elderly Maid (uncredited))

Bess Flowers

(Gerry's Maid of Honor/Nightclub Extra (uncredited))

Max Wagner

(Tom's Best Man (uncredited))

Byron Foulger

(Jewelry Salesman (uncredited))

Joe Gilbert

(Store Employee (uncredited))