Listen, Darling | |
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Directed by | Edwin L. Marin |
Written by |
Katharine Brush (story) Anne Morrison Chapin Elaine Ryan Noel Langley (uncredited) |
Produced by | Jack Cummings |
Starring |
Judy Garland Freddie Bartholomew Mary Astor Walter Pidgeon |
Cinematography |
Charles Lawton Jr. Lester White |
Edited by | Blanche Sewell |
Music by | William Axt |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $566,000 [1] |
Box office | $583,000 [1] |
Listen, Darling is a 1938 American musical comedy film starring Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, Mary Astor, and Walter Pidgeon. It is best known as being the film in which Judy Garland sings " Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart", which later became one of her standards. [2]
Pinky Wingate ( Judy Garland) is worried about her widowed mother, Dottie ( Mary Astor), who is pursuing a loveless relationship with the town's banker, knowing he can help her fund her children's lives. To help her realize this, Pinky and her friend Buzz ( Freddie Bartholomew) "kidnap" Dottie and her younger brother Billie ( Scotty Beckett), taking them on a road trip to get away from the banker. While they do this, they meet two men, Richard Thurlow ( Walter Pidgeon) and J.J Slattery ( Alan Hale), who they think would be nice husbands for her mother. Her mother falls in love with Richard Thurlow ( Walter Pidgeon) and they go home.
According to MGM records, the film earned $381,000 in the US and Canada and $202,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $17,000. [1]