Directed by:
Preston SturgesScreenplay:
Preston SturgesCinematography:
Victor MilnerComposer:
Victor YoungCast:
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno, Jimmy Conlin, William Demarest, Robert Greig, Roscoe Ates, Dewey Robinson, Chester Conklin (more)VOD (1)
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Claudette Colbert stars as the frustrated wife of struggling engineer Joel McCrea. In a seemingly amicable agreement, Colbert hops a train to Palm Beach where divorces come easy. Desperate to escape a group of obnoxious millionaires on the train to Florida, Colbert hides out in a sleeping car where she meets, unbeknownst to her, one of the world's richest men (Rudy Vallee) who is relentless in his attempt to romance her.
Upon their arrival in Palm Beach, Colbert is met by her husband who has come to claim her back only to find that Vallee's man-crazy sister (Mary Astor) is after him!
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Claudette Colbert
France
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Midnight (1939)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Joel McCrea
USA
Best movies:
Union Pacific (1939)
These Three (1936)
Colorado Territory (1949)
Mary Astor
USA
Best movies:
Midnight (1939)
Little Women (1949)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Rudy Vallee
USA
Best movies:
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
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Sig Arno
Best movies:
Fair People (1930)
The Great Dictator (1940)
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Jimmy Conlin
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
William Demarest
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Mountain (1956)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Robert Greig
Australia
Best movies:
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Roscoe Ates
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
City Girl (1930)
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Dewey Robinson
USA
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Scarlet Street (1945)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Chester Conklin
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Franklin Pangborn
USA
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Carefree (1938)
Stage Door (1937)
Arthur Hoyt
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Al Bridge
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Harry Rosenthal
USA
Best movies:
Birth of the Blues (1941)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Frank Faylen
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mantan Moreland
USA
Best movies:
It Started with Eve (1941)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Byron Foulger
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Robert Warwick
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
In a Lonely Place (1950)