Are You Listening?

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.

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  Harry Beaumont

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  William Haines
  Bill Grimes
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  Madge Evans
  Laura O'Neil
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  Anita Page
  Larry Barnes
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  Karen Morley
  Alice Grimes
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  Neil Hamilton
  Jack Clayton
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  Wallace Ford
  Larry Barnes
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  Jean Hersholt
  George Wagner
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  John Miljan
  Ted Russell
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  Hank Mann
  Radio station sound effects man
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  Murray Kinnell
  Mr. Carson
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  Ethel Griffies
  Mrs. Peters
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  Charley Grapewin
  Pierce
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  Lucien Littlefield
  Fred
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  Hattie McDaniel
  Performer entering radio station
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  Joan Marsh
  Honey O'Neil