Separate Tables (1958) on Netflix
Approved19581h 40mDramaRomance
In Bournemouth, Major Pollock tries to keep a newspaper article about himself from his fellow hotel guests. Mrs Railton-Bell wants him expelled, and Anne arrives to see her former husband John.
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At the Hotel Beauregard in Bournemouth, Major David Angus Pollock fails to keep a newspaper article about himself hidden from the other residents. Two guests take note of his evasions: the severe Mrs Railton-Bell and the gentler Lady Matheson. The article reports that the Major pleaded guilty to harassing women in a cinema. Mrs Railton-Bell demands that he be expelled and calls the residents together to settle the matter before putting it to the manager, Miss Pat Cooper. Outside the hotel, Anne and John, once married to one another, meet again. Anne teases John and tells him she is engaged; he says he is as well. John tells her that she chose him, a man of lower economic standing, so that she could manipulate and degrade him. She invites him up to her room.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Separate Tables (1958)
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- David Niven won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Separate Tables, which still holds the record for the shortest performance ever to win the award.
- Top billing on Separate Tables was split between its two leading women: Rita Hayworth was billed above Deborah Kerr on the posters, but Kerr was billed above Hayworth in the film itself, a practice later followed by James Stewart and John Wayne on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman on All the President's Men.
