Ladies Should Listen

Ladies Should Listen
Ladies Should Listen
	Lobby card with Cary Grant, Nydia Westman and Edward Everett Horton
Directed by	Frank Tuttle
Written by	Claude Binyon; Guy Bolton; Alfred Savoir (play)
Starring	Cary Grant; Frances Drake; Edward Everett Horton
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 10, 1934;
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Ladies Should Listen is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Cary Grant, Edward Everett Horton, Frances Drake and Nydia Westman.

Plot

Switchboard operator Anna Mirelle falls in love with businessman Julian De Lussac, whom she has come to know only over the phone. When she discovers that De Lussac's current girlfriend Marguerite is part of a scheme to swindle him out of an option on a nitrate mine concession in Chile that he had bought, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artist, Marguerite's husband Ramon Cintos.

De Lussac's friend Paul Vernet, who is in love with Susie Flamberg, is in a jealous rage because Susie has fallen in love with De Lussac. Susie has recruited her millionaire father to force De Lussac to marry her. De Lussac leaves Marguerite to be with Anna.

Cast

Cary Grant as Julian De Lussac
Frances Drake as Anna Mirelle
Edward Everett Horton as Paul Vernet
Nydia Westman as Susi Flamberg
Rosita Moreno as Marguerite Cintos
Joseph North as Butler (as Joe North)
Charles Ray as Henri, the porter
Rafael Corio as Ramon Cintos
George Barbier as Joseph Flamberg
Charles Arnt as Albert, the manservant
Clara Lou Sheridan (Ann Sheridan) as Adele
Henrietta Burnside as Operator

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Frank S. Nugent wrote: "Aside from its theme, the Paramount offering has little to recommend it. There are a few brief moments when the spectator entertains some hope that the picture is getting into the farce stride, but the promise is not kept; the film sags painfully. It resorts to a number of dull and more than faintly reminiscent situations, and the dialogue sparkles but seldom."^[1]

Wolfe Kaufman of Variety wrote that Grant was "brutally miscast" but Rob Wagner of Script wrote that he was "particularly pleased" with Grant, comparing him to Clark Gable in It Happened One Night with his ability to "surprise everyone with his delightful flair for light comedy."^[2]

References

^ Nugent, Frank S. (1934-07-28). "The Screen: Defense of Snooping". The New York Times. p. 16.
^ Deschner 1973, pp. 76–77.

Sources

Deschner, Donald (1973). The Complete Films of Cary Grant. Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-0376-9.

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[1] Nugent, Frank S. (1934-07-28). "The Screen: Defense of Snooping". The New York Times. p. 16.

[FOOTNOTEDeschner197376–77-2] Deschner 1973, pp. 76–77.

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