The Palm Beach Story

Lillian Randolph,Frank Faylen,Mary Astor,William Demarest

Faced with daunting financial problems, struggling engineer Tom Jeffers and his adoring wife, Gerry, find themselves with their backs to the wall. And then, after a chance encounter with a benevolent deus ex machina, Gerry decides to forget all about her vows and a little thing called love to get a divorce in the best place this time of year: sun-kissed Palm Beach. However, not if Tom can help it. Unfortunately, Gerry bumps into refined millionaire John D. Hackensacker the Third, and things start to look bleak. Can the penniless husband win his wife back?—Nick Riganas