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Third Finger, Left Hand is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. The screenplay concerns a woman who pretends to be married to fend off would-be suitors and jealous wives, then regrets her deception when she meets an artist.

The Middle Finger: The middle finger, Saturn, stands for balance, justice, the law, responsibility, and soul-searching. Soothing stones such as rose quartz, coral, and aquamarine are appropriate for rings. The Ring Finger: The ring finger represents Apollo and symbolizes relationships, creativity, and the love of beauty. Complimentary gemstones.

Plot[edit]

New York magazine editor Margot Sherwood 'Merrick' (Myrna Loy) invents a husband (who is conveniently away in remote corners of the world) mainly to safeguard her job; the magazine publisher's jealous wife has had the last two women in her position fired after mere months. It also comes in handy keeping aggressive men at bay, as Margot is determined to succeed in her career. Magazine photographer August Winkel (Felix Bressart) helps by writing letters supposedly from 'Tony Merrick'.

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One day, she goes to meet a friend arriving on a passenger ship. However, when she enters her friend's cabin, she finds some paintings, but no friend. Soon after, art dealer Mr. Flandrin (Donald Meek) shows up to examine the works. Irritated by Flandrin's brusk attitude and certain that she can get a better deal for her friend, Margot orders him to leave. However, Margot's friend had gotten off at a prior stop, and the paintings actually belong to Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas). Jeff runs into Flandrin on deck, only to learn that the insulted dealer is no longer interested in selling his artwork.

When Jeff confronts Margot, she promises to straighten things out. Masquerading as an enthusiastic rival dealer, she manipulates Flandrin into offering Jeff a much better deal than he had ever expected. Mollified, Jeff offers to take her out to dinner to celebrate. She declines, but when her lawyer boyfriend Philip Booth (Lee Bowman) has to cancel their date, she changes her mind.

At the nightclub, a drunken acquaintance spots Margot and mentions her husband, forcing Margot to improvise and tell Jeff that it was merely a passing infatuation in Rio de Janeiro. He believes her at first, but then some inconsistencies in her story cause him to check up on her; he concludes that there is no Tony Merrick.

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To teach her a lesson, he shows up at her family mansion and announces to her father (Raymond Walburn), younger sister (Bonita Granville), and butler (Halliwell Hobbes) that he is Tony. He is welcomed with open arms. Margot has no choice but to go along with the deception.

The next morning, she confesses all to Philip in order to get some legal advice. Philip tells her she cannot 'divorce' a man to whom she is not even married. He suggests she first marry him discreetly, then divorce him publicly. Philip convinces a reluctant Jeff to go along. The couple head off to Niagara Falls to get married. At the falls, Jeff runs into some friends from his Ohio hometown, Wapakoneta. Margot takes the opportunity to exact some revenge, pretending to be a very uncouth wife, complete with an exaggerated New York accent.

Margot, Jeff, and Philip then board a train to drop Jeff off in Ohio. Margot and Philip plan to go on to Reno to secure the divorce, then get married themselves. However, Jeff starts having second thoughts. To buy time, he hires African-American train porter Sam (who has been studying law by correspondence) to draw out the property settlement negotiations. It works. When Jeff gets off the train, Margot goes with him.

Cast[edit]

• Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick
• Melvyn Douglas as Jeff Thompson
• Raymond Walburn as Mr. Sherwood
• Lee Bowman as Philip Booth
• Bonita Granville as Vicky Sherwood
• Felix Bressart as August Winkel
• Donald Meek as Mr. Flandrin
• Ann Morriss as Beth Hampshire
• Sidney Blackmer as Hughie Wheeler
• Ernest Whitman as Sam
• Halliwell Hobbes as Burton
• Jeff Corey as Minnesota newlywed (uncredited)

Reception[edit]

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times dismissed it as 'a trifling but sometimes amusing distortion of life—and little more.'^[1]Variety described the film as 'sufficiently light and fluffy in its farcical setup to provide diverting entertainment.'^[2]

References[edit]

1. ^Bosley Crowther (December 12, 1940). 'The Screen in Review; Four New Films Open Here: 'Third Finger, Left Hand,' With Myrna Loy--A Dispatch From Reuters, 'Moon Over Burma' and 'Gallant Sons''. The New York Times.
2. ^Third Finger, Left Hand, Variety. December 31, 1939 [sic]

External links[edit]

• Third Finger, Left Hand at the TCM Movie Database
• Third Finger, Left Hand at IMDb
• Third Finger, Left Hand at AllMovie

The ring finger is the third from thumb finger of a human hand. It is located between the third and fifth digits, between the little finger and the middle finger. It is so named for its traditional association with wedding rings in many cultures, though not all cultures use this finger as the ring finger. In some cultures the wedding ring is worn on the 'ring finger' of the left hand and in others it is on the right hand. Traditionally, a wedding ring was worn only by the bride/wife, but in recent times more men also wear a wedding ring. It is also the custom in some cultures to wear an engagement ring on the ring finger.

In anatomy, the ring finger is called digitus medicinalis, the fourth finger, digitus annularis, digitus quartus, or digitus IV. It may also be referred to as the third finger,^[1] excluding the thumb. In Latin, the word anulus means 'ring', digitus means 'finger', and quartus means 'fourth'.

Etymology[edit]

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The origin of the selection of the fourth finger as the ring finger is not definitively known. According to László A. Magyar, the names of the ring finger in many languages reflect an ancient belief that it is a magical finger. It is named after magic or rings, or called nameless (for example, in Chinese: 無名指 / 无名指; pinyin: wúmíng zhǐ; lit. 'unnamed finger').^[2] In Japanese it is called 薬指 (kusuri yubi, 'medicine finger'), deriving its name from the fact, that it was frequently used when taking traditional powdered medicine, as it was rarely used otherwise and hence was considered the cleanest of all.^[3]

In Sanskrit and other languages like Finnish or Russian, the ring finger is called respectively - 'Anamika', 'nimetön' and 'Безымянный' ('nameless'). In Arabic and Hebrew, the ring finger is called respectively – bansur (meaning 'victory') – and kmitsa (meaning 'taking a handful').^{[citation needed]}

History[edit]

Before medical science discovered how the circulatory system functioned, people believed that a vein ran directly from the fourth finger on the left hand to the heart.^[4] Because of the hand–heart connection, they chose the descriptive name vena amoris, Latin for the vein of love, for this particular vein.^[5]

Based upon this name, their contemporaries, purported experts in the field of matrimonial etiquette, wrote that it would only be fitting that the wedding ring be worn on this finger.^{[citation needed]} By wearing the ring on the fourth finger of the left hand, a married couple symbolically declares their eternal love for each other.

In Britain, only women tended to wear a wedding ring until the 1st and 2nd World Wars, when married male soldiers started to wear rings to remind them of their partner.^{[citation needed]}

Contemporary customs[edit]

Western customs[edit]

In Western cultures, a wedding ring is traditionally worn on the fourth finger, commonly called the 'ring finger'. This developed from the Roman anulus pronubis when a man would give a ring to the woman at their betrothal ceremony. Blessing the wedding ring and putting it on the bride's finger dates from the 11th century.^{[citation needed]} In medieval Europe, during the Christian wedding ceremony the ring was placed in sequence on the thumb, index, middle, and ring fingers of the left hand.^{[citation needed]} The ring was then left on the ring finger. In a few European countries, the ring is worn on the left hand prior to marriage, then transferred to the right during the ceremony. For example, a Greek Orthodox bride wears the ring on the left hand prior to the ceremony, then moves it to the right hand after the wedding. In England, the 1549 Prayer Book declared 'the ring shall be placed on the left hand'. By the 17th and 18th centuries, the ring could be found on any finger after the ceremony — even on the thumb.

The wedding ring is generally worn on the ring finger of the left hand in the former British Empire, certain parts of Western Europe, certain parts of Catholic Mexico, Bolivia, Chile and Central and Eastern Europe. These include: Australia, Botswana, Canada, Egypt, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK, and the US^[6]; France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Netherlands [if Catholic], Croatia, Slovenia, and Romania. Also in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands (in Spain it's generally worn on the right).

The wedding ring is worn on the ring finger of the right hand in some Orthodox and a small number of Catholic European countries, some Protestant Western European, as well as some Central and South American Catholic countries.^[7] In Eastern Europe, these include: Belarus, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine. In Central or Western Europe, these include: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Netherlands [if not Catholic], Norway and Spain (except in the Catalan-speaking regions). In Central or South America, these include: Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Venezuela.

The ring is worn on the right hand until the actual wedding day, when it is moved to the left hand in Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria as well as in Romania and Brazil.

In western music, for instance the guitar, 'I-M-A' is a style of plucking guitar strings, where 'I' means index finger, 'M' means middle finger, and 'A' means ring finger. This is a popular type of 'finger style' guitar playing, where the 'A' comes from Latin, where the word anulus means ring.^[8]

Middle Eastern, Jewish and South Asian customs[edit]

In Sinhalese and Tamil culture, the groom wears the wedding ring on his right hand and bride wears it on her left hand ring finger. This can be seen in countries like Sri Lanka where there is a rich Sinhalese and Tamil cultural influence in the society.^[9]

A wedding ring is not a traditional part of the religious Muslim wedding and wedding rings are not included in most Islamic countries. However, if a wedding ring is worn in an Islamic country, it may be worn on either the left (such is the custom in Iran) and for example (in Jordan the right ring finger for engagement and the left ring finger for marriage). As opposed to the wedding ring, use of a ring to denote betrothal or engagement is quite prevalent in Muslim countries, especially those in West and South Asia. Muslim engagement rings are typically worn on the right finger^{[further explanation needed]} by men, and the left finger^{[further explanation needed]} by women.

In a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony, the wedding ring is placed on the bride's righthand index finger,^[10] but other traditions place it on the middle finger or the thumb, most commonly in recent times.^[11] Today, the ring usually is moved to the left hand ring finger after the ceremony. Some Jewish grooms have adopted wearing a wedding ring. However, in Orthodox Judaism, most men do not wear wedding rings.

Rings are not traditional in an Indian wedding. However, in modern society, it is becoming a practice to wear rings for engagements and not for actual marriage. Though the left hand is considered inauspicious for religious activities, a ring (not to be called wedding ring) is still worn on the left hand. Men generally wear the rings on the right hand and women on the left hands.

See also[edit]

• Digit ratio, comparative lengths of the index finger and ring finger and androgen levels in utero

References[edit]

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1. ^'Third finger'. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
2. ^Magyar, László A. 'Digitus Medicinalis — the Etymology of the Name' Actes du Congr. Intern. d'Hist. de Med. XXXII., Antwerpen. 175–179., 1990, retrieved September 2, 2009
3. ^Crunchy Nihongo! 'Japanese Vocabularies: Talking about human body'
4. ^George Frederick Kunz (1917). Rings for the finger: from the earliest known times, to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archaeology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc. J. B. Lippincott company. pp. 193–194.
5. ^Mukherji, Subha (2006), Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama, Cambridge University Press, pp. 35–36, ISBN0521850355
6. ^'What hand does a wedding ring go on for a man'. Alpine Rings.
7. ^Why in the Orthodox tradition do we wear the wedding ring on the left hand?, antiochian.org
8. ^Right Hand Planting Techniqur, douglasniedt.com
9. ^'A Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu Wedding'(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-09-03.
10. ^'Guide to the Jewish Wedding'. aish.com.
11. ^David Sperber, in: Daniel Sperber, Minhagei Yisrael Vol. 4, Jerusalem 1995, pp. 92-93 (Hebrew)

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