Hands Across the Table

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Cast

Carole Lombard
as Regi Allen

Fred MacMurray
as Theodore Drew III

Ralph Bellamy
as Allen Macklyn

Astrid Allwyn
as Vivian Snowden

Ruth Donnelly
as Laura

Marie Prevost
as Nona

Joseph R. Tozer
as Peter

William Demarest
as Matty

Edward Gargan
as Pinky Kelly

Ferdinand Munier
as Miles, the Butler

Harold Minjir
as Couturier at Valentine's

Marcelle Corday
as Celeste, the French Maid

Bess Flowers
as Diner

Harold Miller
as Barber Customer

Nell Craig
as Saleslady

Jerry Mandy
as Headwaiter

Phil Kramer
as Supper Club Waiter

Murray Alper
as Cab Driver

Nelson McDowell
as Man in Nightshirt

Sam Ash
as Maitre d'

Edward Peil Sr.
as Barber

Jerome Storm
as Barber

Francis Sayles
as Barber

Chauncey M. Drake
as Barber

S.H. Young
as Barber

Rafael Gavilan
as Barber

Harold Williams
as Barber

Sterling Campbell
as Barber

Mary MacLaren
as Chambermaid

Kateefa
as Piano Player

Albert Conti
as Maitre d' in Speakeasy

John Buettner
as Shoe Clerk

Pat Sweeney
as Manicurist

Alla Mentone
as Saleslady

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
as Porter

James Adamson
as Porter

Peter Allen
as Jewelry Clerk

Ira Reed
as Taxi Driver

Dutch Hendrian
as Taxi Driver

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Critic Reviews for Hands Across the Table

Audience Reviews for Hands Across the Table

• Dec 04, 2019

  Here's an old plotline: cynical schemers who nefariously plan on marrying innocent rich people meet cute, only to see their plans derailed as they inevitably fall for each other --- against their own better judgment. And so, an old cart. How to sell it? Sparkling dialogue and bubbling chemistry, and this has that going for it. Not a lot, mind you, but enough to get by. And Carole Lombard and Fred Macmurray have the chops to deliver both.
  Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
• Dec 14, 2011

  Breezy lark with a sparkling Carole Lombard. She and Fred work well together as always and if you only know him from his years as the retiring dad on My Three Sons he's quite dishy here. Ralph Bellamy is the odd man out again but at lest his Allen is afforded some dignity here instead of being the poor sap he usually got stuck playing.
  jay n Super Reviewer
• Apr 25, 2011

  <I>Hands Across the Table</I> is a variation on probably the most oft-recycled of all screwball plots, that of the gold-digger whose schemes are derailed by the inconvenient intervention of true love. Carole Lombard, as a designing manicurist, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless playboy the former mistakes for her meal ticket, are both wonderful, but there's something odd about the tone of the picture, evidenced by the fact that our sadness for Ralph Bellamy, Lombard's unrequited suitor, outweighs our happiness for Lombard and MacMurray at the close.
  Stephen M Super Reviewer

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