The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Struggling to maintain an upper middle class lifestyle with her inventor husband Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert decides that her only option is to get a divorce in Palm Beach and find a rich man to marry and support them both. On the train to Florida, she manages to make headway on the second part of that plan when she attracts the attention of the wealthy Rudy Vallée. A bold Mary Astor provides the necessary second female for the foursome. It’s filled with amiable, silly fun with an unexpected ending that doubles back to the frantic, bewildering beginning.