Ed Gardner's DUFFY' S TAVERN

Ed Gardner's DUFFY' S TAVERN

Rejissyor: Producer: Danny Dare (assoc. producer) / Director: Hal Walker / Writers: Melvin Frank (screenplay), Norman Panama (scre. TAGLINES : 01) Biggest Star Party in Hollywood History 02) Radio Riot Show Screened by Paramount 03) Meet Archie and the Gang at DUFFY'S TAVERN (print ad - Lubbock Evening Journal - Broadway Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - March 5, 1946) PLOT: The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy. STORYLINE : Duffy’s Tavern was another of Paramount’s ‘all-star cast’ films, a large scale musical based upon characters created by Ed Gardner for his popular radio show, Duffy's Tavern. Archie [played by Ed Gardner] (with regulars Eddie (Eddie Green) and Finnegan (Charles Cantor)) was surrounded by many of Paramount Pictures stars playing themselves, including Robert Benchley, William Bendix, Eddie Bracken, Bing Crosby, Cass Daley, Brian Donlevy, Paulette Goddard, Betty Hutton, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and Dorothy Lamour. The film's plot involves a war-displaced record manufacturer whose staff—those not sent off to war—drown their sorrows at Duffy's on credit, while the company owner tries to find ways around the price controls and war attrition that threaten to put him out of business. Bing Crosby makes two appearances in the film, once to sing with a group, which includes Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Diana Lynn, Billy De Wolfe, Cass Daley, Dorothy Lamour and Howard Da Silva, a parody of "Swinging on a Star", and again in a sketch where Robert Benchley tells a bed-time story about Bing to the four Crosby boys. He is also heard, but not seen, singing "Learn to Croon", "Please", and "Love in Bloom" when recordings are presented on an on-screen phonograph. It was the film debut of the four Crosby boys other than Gary Crosby’s walk-on part in Star Spangled Rhythm. - --Wikipedia CAST : Ed Gardne r as Archie / Bing Crosby as himself / Betty Hutton as herself Paulette Goddard as herself / Alan Ladd as himself / Dorothy Lamour as herself Eddie Bracken as himself / Brian Donlevy as himself / Sonny Tufts as himself Veroni

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