Look Who's Laughing is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Allan Dwan It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures.
[3] It is also known by the alternative title Look Who's Talking.In New York, Edgar Bergen does his last radio performance of the season, a doctor's sketch with his puppet, Charlie McCarthy, and his assistant, Julie Patterson (Lucille Ball).
Learning of Fibber's plans, Bergen offers to convince Hilary, his friend, to build his factory at Wistful Vista.
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve (Harold Peary), secretly working for Ironton Realty, a rival company wanting to purchase Horton's factory, gets a scoop of Fibber and Bergen's plans.
Gildersleeve's trickery continues when he meets Charlie McCarthy, fed up staying at Wistful Vista and wanting to find a way to leave town.
"[5] In a March 12, 1941 story on its pre-production, the New York Times headlined "Lucille Ball and Husband, Desi Arnaz, to Co-Star.
Film historians Richard Jewell and Vernon Harbin in The RKO Story (1982) considered Look Who's Laughing a surprise winner at the box office.
"Released just after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, it had a certain topicality and lunatic attractiveness, but the precise reasons for the picture's sizeable box-office success must forever remain a mystery.
"[3] Film reviewer Jim Craddock in a review of Look Who's Laughing in the VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever: 2002 compendium was charitable about a film where radio stars conveniently drop into a town, writing, "Not much plot here, but it might be worth a look to fans of the stars, including Jim and Marion[sic] Jordan, better known as Fibber McGee and Molly.