Listen, Darling
- October 21, 1938 (1938-10-21)
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
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.
Cast
- Judy Garland as "Pinkie" Wingate
- Freddie Bartholomew as Herbert "Buzz" Mitchell
- Mary Astor as Dorothy "Dottie" Wingate
- Walter Pidgeon as Richard Thurlow
- Alan Hale as J.J. Slattery
- Scotty Beckett as Billie Wingate
- Barnett Parker as Abercrombie
- Gene Lockhart as Arthur Drubbs
- Charley Grapewin as Uncle Joe Higgins
Box office
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
External links
- Listen, Darling at IMDb
- Listen, Darling at the TCM Movie Database
- Listen, Darling at AllMovie
- Listen, Darling at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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