Listen, Darling (1938)

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Directed by

Edwin L. Marin

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Judy Garland
'Pinkie' Wingate

Freddie Bartholomew
'Buzz' Mitchell

Mary Astor
Dottie Wingate

Walter Pidgeon
Richard Thurlow

Alan Hale
J.J. Slattery

Scotty Beckett
Billie Wingate

Barnett Parker
Abercrombie

Gene Lockhart
Mr. Drubbs

Written by

Anne Morrison Chapin
(screenplay)

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Listen, Darling

4 years, 10 months ago at Jun 25 2:40

JxSxPx

Rarely has 75 minutes feel so interminable as it does during Listen, Darling. The plot is a bit of nonsense that plays like the lamest of sitcom conceits: two siblings (Judy Garland and Scotty Beckett) enlist their best friend (Freddie Bartholomew) to help kidnap their mom (Mary Astor) so she doesn’t enter a loveless marriage. Ha ha ha…. You can guess what follows – a proper bachelor th... read more

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Dottie Wingate (Mary Astor), a widow taking care of her daughter, Pinkie (Judy Garland), and her son, Billie (Scotty Beckett), decides to marry Arthur Drubbs (Gene Lockhart), a dour banker, for the financial sake of her children. Horrified at the prospect, the children kidnap Dottie with the help of their Uncle Joe (Charley Grapewin). At a camping site, Pinkie and Buzz meet free-spirited lawyer Richard Thurlow (Walter Pidgeon) and scheme to bring him together with their mother.

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Listen, Darling

“Rarely has 75 minutes feel so interminable as it does during Listen, Darling. The plot is a bit of nonsense that plays like the lamest of sitcom conceits: two siblings (Judy Garland and Scotty Beckett) enlist their best friend (Freddie Bartholomew) to help kidnap their mom (Mary Astor) so she doesn’t enter a loveless marriage. Ha ha ha…. You can guess what follows – a proper bachelor that the kids like and the mom finds reminds her of her dead husband (Walter Pidgeon), a couple musical interludes by Garland (“Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart” in a minor reading is the obvious highlight), and groan-inducing child actor performances abound. Bartholomew was nearing the end of his time as a movie star, and I never quite got his appeal. He seems so grossly artificial next to Ga” read more