hands across the table

August 17 movie: Hands Across the Table. Speaking of unwinding after a long drive by watching a movie, that's just what I'm doing tonight. It's Carole Lombarde day on TCM. I had never seen this one before. Lombarde plays a manicurist who is loved by her customer Ralph Bellamy, a rich former pilot in a wheelchair, but she falls for Fred MacMurray, a poor gigolo who's dodging his rich fiance. This movie kind of depressed me. MacMurray's character is supposed to be an unconventional free spirit, but I found him childish and annoying. And yet, it was obvious from the start that she would end up with him and not Bellamy. He laughs it off though, as people in the movies strangely do. Why is Ralph Bellamy always the loser in romantic comedies? I need to see a movie where Bellamy gets the girl.