THE PALM BEACH STORY
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea and Rudy Vallee
Universal Pictures; Directed by Preston Sturges
88 minutes; 1942
Come join us as we screen this slapstick movie from the 1940's. Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) walks out on husband Tom (Joel McCrea), and meets up with the eccentric millionaire Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee), whose favorite pastime is to make minutely detailed lists of his expenditures without ever adding them up. Following his wife to Florida, Tom falls into the clutches of Hackensacker's predatory sister (Mary Astor), and the conclusion resembles a four-ring circus. The film’s most famous sequence deals with a group of peculiar millionaires called the Ale and Quail Club, who run amok through a passenger train with wide-open shotguns and howling hunting dogs.
These events are free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring your own movie snacks! The Gardiner Public Library is located at 152 Water Street, Gardiner, ME 04345.
Please call 582-3312 for more information
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