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A hilarious, zany, marital screwball comedy by writer/director Preston Sturges - it was his last romantic comedy and one of the last, classic screwball comedies. The witty, nonsensical film of mistaken identities and deception is a satire on sex as an asset, while the farcical plot skewers the idle rich and the pursuit of money with its story of a penniless, separated couple. Academy Award® winner Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) stars as a pretty but destitute fortune-hunting wife forced to fend for her naïve architect husband (Joel McCrea, star of Sullivan’s Travels). She travels to Florida to obtain a divorce and, using her beauty, ingenuity, luck and charm, seeks cash support from a multi-millionaire to advance her husband's career. Coupling his trademark screwball dialogue with physical slapstick, Sturges builds the film to a dizzying, hilarious climax.