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Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical gold-digger who meets her match in Theodore ‘Ted’ Drew III, the penniless scion of a once-wealthy family who is himself about to marry for money. After a date with Ted, she lets him sleep on her couch when he’s too drunk to get any further. But what is she to think when he wants to extend the arrangement?

A sparky, spunky gem from the underrated Mitchell Leisen featuring a young and more than competent Fred MacMurray alongside the peerless Carole Lombard. Released in 1935 just after the Hays Code came into full force, it somehow smuggled a very pre-code sensibility past the moral enforcers.

This is an ever-so-slightly bittersweet comedy that’s heavily influenced by the screwball style rather than fully representative of it (the imprint of Paramount’s recently-appointed production manager Ernst Lubitsch is unmistakable). It’s often overlooked in discussions of notable 30s comedies, unfairly in my opinion. Hands Across the Table outshines many more celebrated films from the era (Howard Hawks’ Twentieth Century and Gregory La Cava’s My Man Godfrey come to mind).

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Frank S. Nugent wrote:
THE SCREEN; At the Paramount

Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray skip through the formular devices of “Swing High, Swing Low” (née “Burlesque”) with their usual ease at the Paramount, raising a routine story to a routine-plus picture. The plus is extremely small, sometimes being almost invisible. We recall being impressed by the photography of the Panama locks, by a shot of Mr. MacMurray with a beard, by Charles Butterworth’s tropical wardrobe of overcoat and muffler. The rest is so much surplusage: a thin excuse for a film that requires an hour and thirty-five minutes to trace the rise, the fall and the potential ascendancy of a trumpet king.

Mr. MacMurray is the trumpet king. When Miss Lombard finds him he is just an ex-soldier in the Canal Zone. She leads him to Murphy’s café, gets him a chance to express himself, marries him and induces him to accept an offer to appear in New York’s Club El Greco. Does Mr. MacMurray let success go to his head? Does he forget the little woman, hit the skids, wind up with an impressive growth of whisker and the shakes on the night when an important radio sponsor is listening in? Does Miss Lombard steady his tremolo, nestle under his shaking arm and sing “When the trumpet blows, it thrills me, to the marrow of my bones it chills me?”

Your questions embarrass me, and they should embarrass the script writers. “Burlesque” was old hat when George M. Watters and Arthur Hopkins gave it to Broadway ten years ago and when the cinema restated it under another title several seasons back. Camouflaging its hero under a beard and a muted trumpet (which may have been played by Mr. MacMurray but sounds more like Louis Armstrong) does not effectively disguise its antiquity. “Swing High, Swing Low,” like most Ferris wheels, doesn’t go anywhere—at least, nowhere that you have not been. Its players really are worthy of better treatment.
At the ParamountSWING HIGH, SWING LOW, an adaptation of the George M. Watters-Arthur Hopkins play “Burlesque”; screen play by Virginia Van Upp and Oscar Hammerstein 2d; music and lyrics by Sam Coslow and Al Siegel, Ralph Freed and Charley Kisco, Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger, Mr. Freed and Burton Lane; directed by Mitchell Leisen; produced for Paramount by Arthur Hornblow. At the Paramount.

Maggie King . . . . . Carole Lombard
Skid Johnson . . . . . Fred MacMurray
Harry . . . . . Charles Butterworth
Eila . . . . . Jean Dixon
Anita Alvarez . . . . . Dorothy Lamour
Harvey Howell . . . . . Harvey Stephens
Tony . . . . . Charles Judles
Murphy . . . . . Cecil Cunningham
Georgie . . . . . Charles Arnt
Henri . . . . . Franklyn Pangborn

	
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Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is able to build a successful career. When one of his discoveries, Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), rises to stardom and heeds the call of Hollywood, Oscar begins a career slide. He hits the skids and seems on his way out, until he chances to meet Lily again, on a train ride aboard the Twentieth Century Limited. Oscar pulls out all the stops to re-sign his former star, but it’s a battle – because Lily, who is as temperamental as Oscar is, wants nothing to do with her former mentor.

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A couple who have been married for three years are shocked to learn that their marriage is not legally valid.

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A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver–who first meet when she stiffs him for the fare–but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder.

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith represented a change of pace for director Alfred Hitchcock. Out of his 50+ films, this one was his only comedy. Sure, The Master of Suspense usually added humorous touches to all of his films, but Mr. and Mrs. Smith was his only out and out farce.

The plot revolves around the Smiths, an otherwise happily married couple (Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery) who have a shocking conversation over breakfast in which Mr. Smith reveals that if he had to do it all over again, he wouldn’t get married. This sends Mrs. Smith into a huff and she starts PMSing on him. Then the Smiths learn through some contrivance that their marriage isn’t legal and after Mr. Smith doesn’t propose right away, Mrs. Smith goes into a snit and starts seeing other people. From there, the couple vie for each other’s affections by making the other one jealous until they finally realize they’re still in love.

Hitchcock only directed this flick as a favor to his good friend Carole Lombard. Because of this, and the fact that comedy isn’t exactly Hitch’s forte, the film carries few of The Master’s trademarks. Mr. and Mrs. Smith doesn’t really work as a Hitchcock movie and it works even less as a screwball comedy. In fact, the film isn’t really screwy at all. The final act of the flick, which takes place in a snowbound cabin in the woods, doesn’t fit with the rest of the film and really slows the comic momentum down to a crawl. The film does engage the audience in fits and starts (mostly due to the chemistry between the two leads) but never really comes to life and is rarely laugh-out-loud funny.

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