Listen, Darling

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Listen, Darling
Directed byEdwin L. Marin
Written byKatharine Brush (story)
Anne Morrison Chapin
Elaine Ryan
Noel Langley (uncredited)
Produced byJack Cummings
StarringJudy Garland
Freddie Bartholomew
Mary Astor
Walter Pidgeon
CinematographyCharles Lawton Jr.
Lester White
Edited byBlanche Sewell
Music byWilliam Axt
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • October 21, 1938 (1938-10-21)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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]

Plot[edit]

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.

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Box office[edit]

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Fristoe, Roger (March 26, 2004). "Listen, Darling". TCM. Retrieved June 27, 2022.

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