Are You Listening?
Are You Listening?
Release: 1932-03-21
·Runtime: 73m
·★ 5.0
Drama
Crime
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Anita Page
as Larry Barnes
Karen Morley
as Alice Grimes
Hank Mann
as Radio station sound effects man
Murray Kinnell
as Mr. Carson
Hattie McDaniel
as Performer entering radio station
William Haines
as Bill Grimes
Madge Evans
as Laura O'Neil
Wallace Ford
as Larry Barnes
John Miljan
as Ted Russell
Ethel Griffies
as Mrs. Peters
Jean Hersholt
as George Wagner
Charley Grapewin
as Pierce
Neil Hamilton
as Jack Clayton
Lucien Littlefield
as Fred
Joan Marsh
as Honey O'Neil
