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CREDITS
1938, 71 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Jack Cummings; Director, Edwin L. Marin; Screenplay, Elaine Ryan, Anne Morrison Chapin and Barbara Brush; Cinematography, Charles Lawton, Jr.; Music Direction, George Stoll.
CAST
Pinkie Wingate, Judy Garland; Buzz Mitchell, Freddie Bartholomew; Dottie Wingate, Mary Astor; Richard Thurlow, Walter Pidgeon; J.J. Slattery, Alan Hale; Billie Wingate, Scotty Beckett; Abercrombie, Barnett Parker; Mr. Drubbs, Gene Lockhart; Uncle Joe, Charles Grapewin.
SONGS
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart by James Hanley; Ten Pins in the Sky by Joseph McCarthy and Milton Ager; On the Bumpy Road to Love by Al Lewis, Al Hoffmann and Murray Mencher.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
". . . Pinkie Wingate [Judy Garland] - a sensitive young lady. . . is unwilling to let her widowed mother (Mary Astor) marry just anyone. . .Along with brother Billie and pal Buzz, Pinkie is determined to find a new father who the whole family can love. Having set her sights on the eligible but free-spirited Mr. Thurlow (Walter Pidgeon), Pinkie is unprepared when a new suitor (Alan Hale) enters the picture. Soon, everybody has to make some pretty big decisions about what love and happiness are really all about."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc
NOTES
"Listen Darling was the kind of bright, light and touching little family film at which MGM excelled."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"Inauspicious start for the Garland-Bartholomew team. . .mediocre story hurts."
- Variety
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