Thanks, Dani!
This was a fun tribute to CC and summer! Glad I was available to see it!
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Relationships saved by highly unlikely but totally acceptable in-movie coincidence!!
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Claudette Colbert in “The Palm Beach Story” (1942). She passed away at age 96 on this day in 1996 after a 60+yr career of nearly 80 films and approximately 2 dozen theater roles. She was a 1989 Kennedy Center honoree (youtu.be/Pg8f-qYVe0Q?...)
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Rent-a-Band strikes again! 🎼
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“The Palm Beach Story” (1942) came under heavy scrutiny by the production code for “light treatment of marriage and divorce” and it’s original title of “Is Marriage Necessary?”
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You can really tell the difference between who has watched “Design for Living” (1933) and who hasn’t
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Impossible to determine that guy's language or nationality.
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Weenie King or Cupid in a giant hat? 💘
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“… a tall, dark haired girl with big eyes..”
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That’s popular crooner Rudy Vallée as her new sugar daddy.
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"There's a posse going throuigh the train!"
Passengers generally do not want to hear this announcement during the night.
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Drunk guys in a bar on a train with loaded shotguns playing shooting games. It'll be fine.
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“[The sausage industry]’s a good industry to be in if you know where to get the meat cheap”
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"Mr. Osborne doesn't always hold his liquor to perfection."
I'm going to remember this if I get overserved at a bar.
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WOW I’d forgotten how close they cut it language-wise in this one😂
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Robert Dudley was originally a Dentist but after feeling unsatisfied with that he started working in films in 1917. By the 1940s he became part of the informal stock company of Preston Sturges. He passed away in 1955 after a career of more than 110 films
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"I refuse to understand what you are talking about."
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$700 in 1942 money is worth just under $14K in 2025 money.
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The presence of Malarky™️ means that Joe Biden is decidedly not a fan of “The Palm Beach Story” (1942).. it’s his loss, tbh
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I love the opening to “The Palm Beach Story” (youtu.be/jeVZFsMS7mQ?...). It’s dramatic and funny and wild-everything you’d come to expect from a Preston Sturges film condensed into 3min
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And now a few words from Matthew Broderick (youtu.be/JECQVTD139k?...) before our feature presentation: “The Palm Beach Story” (1942) (youtu.be/wTbc_exCaj4?...)
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You know I'm a movie guy. Just throwing out my Top 10.
Your favorites are?
1) #ChungkingExpress
2) #SilenceoftheLambs
3) #GrossePointeBlank
4) #AllThatJazz
5) #LocalHero
6) #TheWildBunch
7) #SevenSamurai
8) #NightoftheLivingDead
9) #ShallWeDance
10) #ThePalmBeachStory
11) #UruseiYatsura2
Bring on the Weenie King! #TCMParty #ThePalmBeachStory
We've gone from #TheEggAndI to a movie that has the "man with the cock in his voice." #ThePalmBeachStory #TCMParty
How am I supposed to get anything done when the Weinie King is on? #TCMParty #ThePalmBeachStory
Bill Hader going bonkers over Preston Sturges one best things I've seen in eons. Laughing so hard I'm crying. @Criterion #ThePalmBeachStory