In his most hilarious exposé of the deleterious mental effects of idle wealth, Preston Sturges pits the billionaire Hackensacker family - Rudy Vallee, his sister (the "princess") Mary Astor, and her pet beau, Toto, a latin-lover from some undesignated land who speaks a peculiar Sturges gibberish - against the wits of those who, with fine-tuned brains, must connive for a living. A distraught Claudette Colbert announces to her impoverished-inventor husband, Joel McCrea, that she is but a "milestone" around his neck, and takes off in search of a more financially hearty companion. She finds him on the train to Palm Beach, in the feeble form of Rudy Vallee, whose acquaintance she makes when she steps on his face - shattering his perennial glasses - en route to her berth. What follows is a series of surprise turns, and twists cleverly engineered by Colbert, compared by James Ursini (in "The Fabulous Life and Times of Preston Sturges") to a Shakespearean comedy of errors - complete with matching sets of twins and a multiple-wedding ending, undercut with Sturges cynicism: our heroes, according to the titles, "Lived Happily Ever After - Or Did They?"