Hands Across the Table

1935
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1h 20m

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Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray in Hands Across the Table (1935)

Feel-Good Romance Screwball Comedy Workplace Drama Comedy Romance

A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.

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Carole Lombard

Regi Allen

Fred MacMurray

Theodore Drew III

Ralph Bellamy

Allen Macklyn

Astrid Allwyn

Vivian Snowden

Ruth Donnelly

Laura

Marie Prevost

Nona

Peter Allen

Jewelry Clerk
(uncredited)

Murray Alper

Cabbie
(uncredited)

Sam Ash

Maitre d'Hotel
(uncredited)

Herman Bing

Barber
(uncredited)

Ralph Brooks

Restaurant Patron
(uncredited)

Sterling Campbell

Barber
(uncredited)

Whitey the Cat

Cat
(uncredited)

Albert Conti

Maitre d' in Speakeasy
(uncredited)

Marcelle Corday

Celeste
(uncredited)

Nell Craig

Saleswoman
(uncredited)

William Demarest

Natty
(uncredited)

Katherine DeMille

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In one scene, Fred MacMurray calls his fiancée, and Carole Lombard continuously interrupts him stating, "Bermuda calling." Director Mitchell Leisen said, "When they finished the take, Carole and Fred collapsed on the floor in laughter; they laughed until they couldn't laugh any more. It wasn't in the script, but I made sure the cameras kept turning and I used it in the picture. It is so hard to make actors laugh naturally - I wasn't about to throw that bit out."

Quotes
[Ted suggests temporarily becoming Regi's platonic roommate]
Regi Allen: Well, I'm not *that* unconventional.
Theodore Drew III: Aw, don't be old-fashioned. What are conventions anyway? Just a bunch of salesmen sitting around and telling stories.

Connections
Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma (1994)

Soundtracks
Hands Across the Table
Music by Jean Delettre
Lyrics by Mitchell Parish
[Played during the opening credits]

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If you've wondered why people loved Carole Lombard so much,

...then you ought to rent this movie. She is just adorable, and charming beyond belief, as avowed gold-digger Regi Allen. All the supporting players here are wonderful. However, male lead Fred MacMurray comes off -- at least to me -- as a very cold fish. His endless "humorous" comments have an angry undercurrent, and the script, while admitting the guy is very shallow (shallow, angry -- sounds like a keeper), also insists he's this wacky dreamboat.

When you get down to it, all he has to offer Regi over the love-struck, crippled Allen Macklyn (Ralph Bellamy, playing what I think is the first of his many second male leads dumped by the leading lady for the first male lead) is that he can walk.