Bells Are Ringing

Jun 23, 1960

2h 6m

★ 6.3

The screen is singing M.G.M. is bringing Broadway's Bell-Ringer of a Musical to the World!

Overview

Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Bells Are Ringing Trailers

Cast

Ella Peterson

Judy Holliday

Jeffrey Moss

Dean Martin

Larry Hastings

Fred Clark

J. Otto Prantz

Eddie Foy Jr.

Sue

Jean Stapleton

Gwynne

Ruth Storey

Inspector Barnes

Dort Clark

Blake Barton

Frank Gorshin

Francis

Ralph Roberts

Olga

Valerie Allen

Joe Kitchell

Bernie West

Gangster (uncredited)

Steve Peck

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