Are You Listening? (1932)

Crime Drama

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.

Updated May 27 2020

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US -

1932-03-21

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Keywords:

pre-code radio announcer

FACTS

Runtime: 73 mins Rating: 5.0 Tag Line: Don't touch that dial.

Cast

Ethel Griffies

Mrs. Peters

Charley Grapewin

Pierce

Hattie McDaniel

Performer entering radio station

Karen Morley

Alice Grimes

Hank Mann

Radio station sound effects man

Neil Hamilton

Jack Clayton

Jean Hersholt

George Wagner

Lucien Littlefield

Fred