Hands Across the Table

Regi Allen works as a manicurist in the barber shop at the upscale Savoy-Carlton Hotel in New York City, it a job she doesn't much like or sees as her future as her goal in it is to meet and marry a wealthy man to get her out of her poverty. Love is not to factor into who she marries. In this job, she meets two "wealthy" clients in quick succession. The first is Allen Macklyn, who, she posits because he has money, wants people in general including her to marry for love. He becomes her best friend and confidante, she in the process unaware that he has indeed fallen in love with her. The second is happy-go-lucky Theodore Drew III, heir to the Drew fortune. Her initial dislike of him in she not realizing that he is from money changes to nervousness upon discovering who he is in wanting to impress him in seeing him as husband material. All pretense between Regi and Ted goes out the window when he divulges that he is penniless in the Drews having lost their fortune in the 1929 crash, and that he too is marrying for money - his fiancee Victoria Snowden aware of the situation - in never having worked a day in his life and not sure if he could survive if required to do so. Regi and Ted end up spending concentrated time together in she helping him out of a bind. In the process, they have to decide what to do when they too discover that they have fallen in love with each other.