Ladies Should Listen

Ladies Should Listen

NR 1934 · 62 min · ★ 5.9 · Comedy, Romance

The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.

Directed by Frank Tuttle · Written by Claude Binyon

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