Love is fickle! Love 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.
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Comic, classical in form, warm and relentless.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20257/10
“Men don’t get smarter as they get older, they just lose their hair”! That’s the view of “Gerry” (Claudette Colbert) who is married to frustrated designer “Tom” (Joel McCrea). He needs $90,000 to build a state of the art airport but all of the traditional investment sources have politely declined. She decides that he would do better on his own, or better yet - she could divorce him the go marry a millionaire and try to fund him that way. He thinks this is bonkers, but next thing she is on a train to Palm Beach where she encounters “J.D.” (Rudy Vallee) who just happens to be a very rich gent who is happy to dispense his largesse generously. Hooked up with this man, they meet his open-minded sister (Mary Astor) to whom “Gerry” spins some fanciful yarns about her husband that only come home to roost when that poor soul, determined not to give up on his wife, arrives and risks spoiling her carefully stacked line of fibbing dominoes. What chance they can get the money without someone in this ostensibly spoiled and vacuous scenario cottoning on? The story is a bit on the far-fetched side, but Colbert has excellent comedy timing and there are quite a few pithy gems amidst the fairly relen
Read the whole review on TMDB - barrymoston TMDB · Oct 20199/10
A woman leaves her inventor husband, believing that it would be better for him if she were gone. She heads to Palm Beach to get a divorce, and meets kind billionaire John D. Hackensacker the III during crazy train ride there. The energy is bursting in every scene thanks to film's great, seasoned cast. Watch for early scenes with the endearing, little old "Wienie King". The film is a wonderful, joyfully hilarious romp. Would I recommend? Yes. The quintessential screwball comedy.
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Cast
- Claudette ColbertGeraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers
- Joel McCreaTom Jeffers
- Mary AstorThe Princess Centimillia
- Rudy ValleeJohn D. Hackensacker III
- Sig ArnoToto
- Robert WarwickMr. Hinch
- Arthur Stuart HullMr. Osmond
- Torben MeyerDr. Kluck
- Jimmy ConlinMr. Asweld
- Victor PotelMr. McKeewie
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- Preston SturgesDirector
- Preston SturgesScreenplay
- Victor MilnerDirector of Photography
- Victor YoungOriginal Music Composer
- Stuart GilmoreEditor
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