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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.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Mitchell Leisen
- 1935-10-18
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.
- Mitchell Leisen, Edgar Anderson
- Carole Lombard
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...
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- Carole Lombard
- Mitch Leisen
- Romance, Comedy
"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.
A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance. Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore 'Ted' Drew III.
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Overview. A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love. Mitchell Leisen. Director. Norman Krasna. Screenplay. Herbert Fields.
