Listen, Darling
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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
Release
Listen, Darling was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on October 21, 1938. 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.[2] Initially, the film was released as home media on VHS in 1992 by MGM/UA Home Video, on Laser Disc in 1995 by MGM/UA Home Video along with Thoroughbreds Don't Cry[3] and on DVD in 2012 by Warner Archive.[4]
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- 1938 films
- 1938 musical comedy films
- 1938 romantic comedy films
- American musical comedy films
- American romantic comedy films
- American romantic musical films
- American black-and-white films
- 1930s English-language films
- Films directed by Edwin L. Marin
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- 1930s romantic musical films
- Films with screenplays by Noel Langley
- 1930s American films
- English-language romantic comedy films
- English-language romantic musical films
- English-language musical comedy films