How to reduce cell heigt in a Table

Hi,
Iam attaching a html code below which displays three rows i.e.
First Name, Last Name and Email Address and each having a corresponding textbox for user to enter. On putting the table border as 1 I see that all the space inside the first row is occupied. But the second and third row there is space around the cells. I do not want this extra space inside the cell. I could not determine what is contributing to the height of the cell and why is that only the first row has no space around it while the second and third row has.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="bcs_styles.css" type="text/css">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM name="f1" method="post" value="">
<TABLE border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<TR> 
<TD width="39%" align="right" class="boldlabels">First Name :</TD>
<TD width="1%"> </TD>
<TD width="60%" align="right">
<INPUT type="text" value="Kishan Kumar" name="first_name_in"
size="35" class="normal" maxlength="40"></TD>
</TR>

<TR> 
<TD width="39%" height="39" align="right" class="boldlabels">Last Name :</TD>
<TD width="1%" > </TD>
<TD width="60%" height="39" align="right">
<INPUT type="password" value="Vemuru" NAME="last_name_in"
size="35" class="normal" maxlength="40"></TD>
</TR>

<TR> 
<TD width="39%" height="39" align="right" class="boldlabels">
E-mail address :</TD>
<TD width="1%" > </TD>
<TD width="60%" height="39" align="right">
<INPUT type="text" value="kishan_kumar_v@yahoo.com" NAME="email_address_in"
size="35" class="normal" maxlength="40"></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
I would like to see all the three rows just below each other without any space between them. Cellpaddig and cellspacing is not helping either.
Thanks in advance
Kishan Kumar

you are assigning the cell a height which is not allowing them to be any closer....