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Hands Across the Table is a 1935 American romantic screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Carole Lombard as a manicurist looking for a rich husband and Fred MacMurray as a poor playboy, with Ralph Bellamy as a wealthy ex-pilot in a wheelchair. The teaming of Lombard and MacMurray was so ...
Hands Across the Table: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn. A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.
Regi Allen, a New York manicurist who was reared in poverty, is determined to marry a wealthy man. She becomes the favorite manicurist of Savoy-Carleton Hotel client Allen Macklyn, a former aviator now confined to a wheelchair because of a flying accident.
Hands Across the Table. Regi Allen (Carole Lombard) becomes a manicurist at a hotel in order to meet a rich husband, and soon she finds wealthy Allen Macklyn (Ralph Bellamy),...
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Nov 15, 2011 · Hollywood legends Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray star in the classic screwball comedy Hands Across the Table. Regi Allen (Lombard) is a marriage-minded manicurist employed in a swanky hotel barbershop where she hopes to find herself a wealthy husband.
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Regi Allen works as a manicurist in the barber shop at the upscale Savoy-Carlton Hotel in New York City, it a job she doesn't much like or sees as her future as her goal in it is to meet and marry a wealthy man to get her out of her poverty. Love is not to factor into who she marries.
Hands Across the Table is a 1935 American romantic screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Carole Lombard as a manicurist looking for a rich husband and Fred MacMurray as a poor playboy, with Ralph Bellamy as a wealthy ex-pilot in a wheelchair.
Hands Across the Table set the template for a number of Leisen romantic comedies to come: An independent woman falls, despite all her best intentions, for a guy with no discernable skills or abilities beyond his easy charm. Here, Lombard’s manicurist mistakes MacMurray’s wisecracking batchelor for a man of means.
Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore ‘Ted’ Drew III. After a date with Ted, she lets him sleep on her couch when he’s too drunk to go further; but what is she to think when he wants to extend the arrangement?
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love. Mitchell Leisen. Director. Norman Krasna. Screenplay. Vincent Lawrence. Screenplay. Herbert Fields. Screenplay.
