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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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- Mitchell Leisen
- Approved
- Carole Lombard, Fred Macmurray, Ralph Bellamy
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 ...
- October 18, 1935
- E. Lloyd Sheldon
Director Mitchell Leisen's Hands Across the Table, from 1935, shows that there's good Lombard to be found beyond the four famous pictures in her body of work. Hands Across the Table is not a classic. It's just a charming, three-star romantic comedy.
- 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 Bellamy),...
- (21)
- Carole Lombard
- Mitch Leisen
- Romance, Comedy
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.
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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.
- DVD
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.
