Hands Across the Table

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Hands Across the Table ★★★ 1935

Regi Allen (Lombard) is a fortune-hunting manicurist in a swanky hotel barber shop. Has-been millionaire playboy Theodore Drew III (Mac-Murray) falls for her but he's about to marry money (Allwyn) and Regi's got a wheelchair-bound rich man (Bellamy) just waiting for her to say “I do.” Snappy dialogue and light-hearted performances. Based on the story “Bracelets” by Vina Delmar. 80m/ B VHS, DVD . Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Marie Prevost, William Demarest, Edward (Ed) Gargan; D: Mitchell Leisen; W: Norman Krasna, Vincent Lawrence, Herbert Fields; C: Ted Tetzlaff.