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Bells Are Ringing

6.3 126 mins Comedy   Romance   1960
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli

Release Date: 23 Thu, Jun 1960

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.

Casts of Bells Are Ringing

Judy Holliday

as Ella Peterson

Dean Martin

as Jeffrey Moss

Fred Clark

as Larry Hastings

Eddie Foy Jr.

as J. Otto Prantz

Ruth Storey

as Gwynne

Dort Clark

as Inspector Barnes

Frank Gorshin

as Blake Barton

Ralph Roberts

as Francis

Valerie Allen

as Olga

Bernie West

as Joe Kitchell

Steve Peck

as Gangster (uncredited)

Gerry Mulligan

as Ella's Blind Date

Jimmy Ames

as Bernie

Lela Bliss

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Donna Douglas

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Oliver Blake

as Ludwig Smiley (uncredited)

Herb Vigran

as Barney Lampwick (uncredited)

Len Lesser

as Charlie Bessemer (uncredited)

Barbara Hines

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Marina Koshetz

as Mme Grimaldi (uncredited)

Hal Linden

as Singer (uncredited)

Titus Moede

as Beatnik (uncredited)

Nina Roman

as Actress (uncredited)

Maida Severn

as (uncredited)

Olan Soule

as Nervous Man (uncredited)

Doris Wiss

as Actress (uncredited)

Elizabeth Montgomery

as Girl Reading Book (uncredited)

Jean Moorhead

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Doria Avila

as Carl (Uncredited)

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