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    Hands Across the Table

    1935 · Romantic comedy · 1h 20m

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  1. 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 ...

  2. Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray star as golddiggers who team up to marry rich men in this screwball comedy. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film features a classic scene of MacMurray scaring away a rival suitor with a fake gun.

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    • Comedy, Romance
    • Mitchell Leisen
    • 1935-10-18
  3. A manicurist uses her beauty and emery board to snag a rich husband in this classic comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen. Watch clips, read reviews, and learn more about the cast and crew of Hands Across the Table.

    • Mitchell Leisen, Edgar Anderson
    • Carole Lombard
  4. 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), who falls for her ...

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    • Carole Lombard
    • Mitch Leisen
    • Romance, Comedy
  5. A comedy about two golddiggers who agree to marry for money, but fall in love instead. Regi Allen and Theodore Drew III are a manicurist and a playboy who meet in a hotel barber shop and form an uneasy alliance.

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  7. Sparkling, enjoyable romance. Kalaman 23 November 2002. "Hands Across the Table" is a sparkling and enjoyable screwball romance, directed with an airy grace by the underrated Paramount stylist Mitchell Leisen, whose "Easy Living" (1937) and "Swing High, Swing Low" (1937) are two of the greatest classics of the 1930s.

  8. 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.

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