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Are You Listening? (1932)

Are You Listening? (1932)

Drama Crime

Don't touch that dial.

Release Date: 1932, March 21
Directors: Harry Beaumont
Countries: United States of America
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast: John Miljan, Hattie McDaniel, Charley Grapewin, Wallace Ford, Hank Mann, Lucien Littlefield, Ethel Griffies, Karen Morley, Murray Kinnell, Neil Hamilton, Joan Marsh, Jean Hersholt

Overview:

WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes is bounced from his job, setting in motion this movie’s turn from comedic to darkly tragic. William Haines, two years removed from being Tinseltown’s top male star, plays Grimes in a melodrama noted for its glimpses of live radio production and for a Depression-era ethos that includes peroxide cuties eager to land a job, a sugar daddy or both.

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