[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":46},["ShallowReactive",2],{"movie-seo-archive-ed-gardners-duffy-s-tavern-1945-all-star-cast-tavern":3},{"movieId":4,"title":5,"year":6,"sources":7,"relatedMovies":17,"similarMovies":18,"collections":43,"is_curated":44,"verified":44,"lastUpdated":45},"archive-ed-gardners-duffy-s-tavern-1945-all-star-cast-tavern","Ed Gardner's DUFFY' S TAVERN (1945 All Star Cast, Tavern)",1945,[8],{"channelId":9,"sourceId":10,"id":10,"title":5,"description":11,"size":12,"addedAt":13,"language":14,"year":6,"downloads":15,"type":9,"channelName":16},"archive.org","ed-gardners-duffy-s-tavern-1945-all-star-cast-tavern","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 \u002F Bing Crosby as himself \u002F Betty Hutton as herself     Paulette Goddard as herself \u002F Alan Ladd as himself \u002F Dorothy Lamour as herself     Eddie Bracken as himself \u002F Brian Donlevy as himself \u002F Sonny Tufts as himself     Veronica Lake as herself \u002F Arturo de Córdova as himself \u002F Barry Fitzgerald as Bing Crosby's Father     Cass Daley as herself  \u002F Diana Lynn as herself \u002F Victor Moore as Michael O'Malley     Marjorie Reynolds as Peggy O'Malley \u002F Barry Sullivan as Danny Murphy \u002F Charles Cantor as Finnegan     Eddie Green as Eddie the Waiter \u002F Ann Thomas as Miss Duffy \u002F Robert Benchley as himself     William Demarest as himself \u002F Howard Da Silva as Tough Guy \u002F Billy De Wolf e as Doctor     Walter Abel as Director \u002F Johnny Coy as Dancer\u002FWaiter \u002F Miriam Nelson as Dancer     Charles Quigley as Ronald \u002F Olga San Juan as Gloria \u002F Bobby Watson as Masseur \u002F Gary Crosby as himself     Phillip Crosby as himself \u002F Dennis Crosby as himself \u002F Lindsay Crosby as himself \u002F William Bendix as himself     James Brown as himself \u002F Joan Caulfield as herself \u002F Gail Russell as herself     Helen Walker as herself \u002F Jean Heather as herself  and  Maurice Rocco as himself --Wikipedia TRIVIA : 01 ) The film was placed 15th in the list of highest-grossing movies in the US in 1945. 02) Bosley Crowther of The New York Times summarized it as \"Take it for what it is, a hodge-podge of spare-time clowning by the gang, including a large hunk of Archie, and you’ll find Duffy’s Tavern fair enough.\"[2] 03 ) Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide gave the film a BOMB rating. 04) Film Daily commented : \"There isn’t much to the story itself, which merely offers an excuse for bringing in such topflighters as Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour, Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, to name but a handful, so that they may do their bit in the manner of guest stars. Most of the big names are introduced at the end in a benefit show staged to raise money to permit Victor Moore to reopen his record factory and put a lot of nice guys back to work.\"[3] --Wikipedia TRIVIA : 01) One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA\u002FUniversal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. 02) Joan Caufield's debut. 03) This movie was followed in 1958 with a TV show of same name. --IMDb ** The non-profit streaming of the commercial free, quality films I have very much enjoyed and therefore uploaded to archive.org , are for educational purposes. I have uploaded each movie for posterity , with the hope that all present and future generations will learn from and enjoy them, as much as I have. I own zero rights to this film, nor to any other I have uploaded, and I receive nothing for the uploads nor for the information I put with those uploads. 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