Film
The Palm Beach Story
Fri, Aug 17, 2012
- 4:30PM
- 9:15PM
LOCATION:
BAM Rose Cinemas
RUN TIME: 90 minutes
RATED: NR
GENERAL ADMISSION: $12
BAM CINEMA CLUB MEMBERS: $7
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
$9 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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August 2012
Friday August 17, 2012
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2012
series American Gagsters: Great Comedy Teams
Directed by Preston Sturges
With Claudette Colbert,Joel McCrea,Mary Astor,Rudy Vallee,Sig Arno
Opening with a breakneck wedding sequence cheekily punctuated by a question mark, this classic screwball romance quickly cuts to bankrupt architect husband (McCrea) and ever-pragmatic wife (Colbert) facing eviction from their Park Avenue apartment five years later. But when she decides to use her powers of flirtation to nab a wealthier mate, a whirlwind of comic mayhem conspires to bring them back together and her affection for her husband proves unshakable. Among the most spryly paced and verbally pyrotechnic films of Sturges’ astonishing 1940s output, The Palm Beach Story also stars Robert Dudley and Rudy Vallee as idle-rich buffoons who fall for the heroine’s charms.