Hands Across
the Table
Stars Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly
Directors: Mitchell Leisen
Theatrical Release Date: October 25, 1935
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Synopsis Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match
in Theodore 'Ted' Drew III. After a date with Ted, she lets him sleep on her
couch when he's too drunk to go further; but what is she to think when he wants
to extend the arrangement?
The Princess Comes Across
Stars Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth,
George Barbier
Directors: William K. Howard
Theatrical Release Date: May 22, 1936
Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Synopsis A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting
career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader
returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows
she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers
with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away
under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five
international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find
him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the
killer themselves - before he finds them.
We're Not
Dressing
Stars Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman
Directors: Norman Taurog
Theatrical Release Date: April 26, 1934
Genres: Comedy, Musical
Synopsis Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests
on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way
to an island with the help of singing sailor Stephen Jones. Her friend Edith,
Uncle Hubert, and Princes Michael and Alexander make it to the same island but
all prove to be useless in the art of survival. The sailor is the only one with
the practical knowhow to survive but Doris and the others snub his leadership
offer. That is until he starts a clam bake and wafts the fumes in their starving
faces. The group gradually gives into his leadership, the only question now
is if Doris will give into his charms.
True Confession
Stars Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel, Porter Hall
Directors: Wesley Ruggles
Theatrical Release Date: December 24, 1937
Genres: Comedy
Synopsis Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar,
and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts
a new job, and when her employer is found dead, all the (circumstantial) evidence
points at her. She is put on trial for murder, and her husband defends her.
He thinks she is lying again when she says she didn't do it, and insists she
plead that she did, but in self defense. Charlie, a shady, odd character who
may or may not know something about what really happened, hangs around the courtroom
and jail making rude comments and noises. After Helen is acquitted, he tries
to blackmail them.
Man of the
World
Stars William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee, Lawrence Gray
Directors: Richard Wallace
Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 1931
Genres: Comedy
Plot Outline A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and
her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what
she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her
uncle.
Love Before
Breakfast
Stars Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero, Janet Beecher, Betty Lawford
Directors: Walter Lang
Theatrical Release Date: March 9, 1936
Genres: Comedy
