Are You Listening? (1932)
Don't touch that dial.
73 min
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.
- Release date
- March 21, 1932
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- William Haines as Bill Grimes
- Madge Evans as Laura O'Neil
- Anita Page as Sally O'Neil
- Karen Morley as Alice Grimes
- Neil Hamilton as Jack Clayton
- Wallace Ford as Larry Barnes
- Jean Hersholt as George Wagner
- Joan Marsh as Honey O'Neil
- John Miljan as Ted Russell
- Murray Kinnell as Carson
Crew
- Harry Beaumont · Director
- Dwight Taylor · Writer
- J.P. McEvoy · Writer
- Harold Rosson · Cinematographer
- Frank Sullivan · Editor