Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

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X-10, Cincinnati 25, Ohio WML COUPON ilNQJ-ANJ)RDE| * vertised at $8.y» ana wou. | J Name ' ' ' SI Address g B Stale --J^J mm City ~ ~s,s^s^Mt (Continued from page 12) Robert Sully are both comparative newcomers to Hollywood. Miss Richards was Australia's top woman star before coming to America and Sully was a Pittsburgh steel engineer just two years ago. DUFFY'S TAVERN Duffy's Tavern, the hilarious radio symposium of wisecracks and malapropisms, has been transferred to the screen. All the regular habitues of Duffy's are in it, including Archie (Ed Gardner), Finnegan (Charlie Cantor), Eddie (Eddie Green) and Miss Duffy (Ann Thomas). A few more ingredients in the form of Victor Moore, Marjorie Reynolds and Barry Sullivan, have been added. Paramount has whipped up a plot which calls for the services of Alan Ladd, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Betty Hutton and practically every other star on the lot. The result is really A Thing. Duffy has gone away on a vacation, and left Archie to run the Tavern. That was Duffy's error, as you might imagine. Archie has been letting fourteen ex-soldiers eat there, on the cuff, and fourteen hungry GIs, ex or otherwise, can make quite a dent in the profits of a joint like Duffy's. Now Archie hears that Miss Duffy is being sent home to look over the accounts, and he realizes that he's just half a jump ahead of the sheriff. His only hope is Mr. O'Malley (Victor Moore) who owns the factory down the road. Archie believes O'Malley is rich, and is thinking of marrying his beautiful daughter, Peggy, (Marjorie Reynolds) to O'Malley in order to recoup his fortunes. But alas! O'Malley turns out to be broke, too. It is lack of dough, not lack of shellac, that is holding up his manufacture of phonograph records. Archie's last hope expires. Then Finnegan gets an idea — his first in years. "Listen, Arch," he says, "being as how you know Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton so well, and went to school with Bob Hope, why don't you get 'em to put on a benefit show for the soldiers? Then the boys could pay you back what they owe you, and you wouldn't go to jail." It's a fine idea. Only Archie's "friendship" with the stars is just something he dreamed up in an' idle moment. If you want to get literal about it, the whole thing is a pack of lies. So no one is more surprised than Archie when the benefit actually comes off! It's a superduper whooper of a benefit. All the stars put on some kind of an act, and the whole thing couldn't be more fun. You'll be glad somebody thought of making "Duffy's Tavern" into a movie. — Par. P. S. Wow, what a cast! Drips with the biggest galaxy of stars ever to appear in a Paramount picture — just try to name one of the stars on the lot who doesn't finally pass through the swingin' doors of Duffy's — "where the elite meet to eat." . . . On hand to greet the arrivals are radio's originals — Ed Gardner as Archie, Charley Cantor as Finnegan, and Eddie Greene as Eddie, the waiter. ... Ed Gardner used to be a WPA worker, but was so talented at mutilating the English language that the radio industry decided he was worth S5,000 a week. Hollywood agreed — and then some. . . . Though the "Tavern" is as familiar to listening audiences as the corner saloon, this is the first chance the old regulars get to actually see it. For those who have a fond remembrance for the old "sawdust on the floor, swingin' (Continued on page 18) FREE OFFER! We've got 500 FREE DELL Mags waiting to be mailed to 500 alert people who'll fill out the Questionnaire below and send it in to us by September 20th! Read all about your favorite stars, their pics, their lives! We're not asking you to rush your answers any more, the mags will be sent out to 500 people chosen at random, NOT the first 500 that come in. So take time to read MODERN SCREEN, answer the questionnaire thoughtfully, and take your chances on getting a DELL Mag — FREE! QUESTIONNAIRE What stories and features did you enj 2, 3 at the right of your 1st, 2nd and Those Hollywood Parties! by Hedda Hopper □ Up in Central Park (Dane Clark). . □ "The House I Live In" (Frank Sinatra) □ Tom Drake Life Story, concluded . . □ Lucky Bum (Bob Mitchum) □ Baby Talk (Payne-DeHaven) □ oy most in our October issue? Write 1, 3rd choices. Last Leave ( Lon McCallister) □ Junior Dream Man (Gregory Peck) □ "My Daughter" by Natalie Bacall . . . □ "Wicked Williams" (Esther Williams) □ Johnny Come Lately (John Dall) . . □ "Pride of the Marines" . . . □ Good News by Louella Parsons □ Which of the above did you like LEAST? What 3 stars would you like to read about in future issues? List them 1, 2, 3 in order of preference My name is My address is: City Zone. . . . State. I am years old. ADDRESS THIS TO: POLL DEPT.. MODERN SCREEN 149 MADISON AVENUE. 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