FILMOGRAPHY: MOVIE LISTINGS
Duffy's Tavern (1945) 
Genre: Comedy
Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Betty Hutton, Veronica Lake, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, William Bendix, Eddie Bracken (Guests).
Robert Benchley, James Brown, Sonny Tufts, Dennis Crosby, Gary Crosby, Lin Crosby, Phillip Crosby, Cass Daley, Arturo de Córdova, Paulette Goddard, Barney Dean, William Demarest, Brian Donlevy, Dorothy Lamour, Helen Walker, Maurice Rocco, Jean Heather, Alan Ladd (Themselves).
CAST
- Walter Abel (Director)
- Veronica Lake (Guest)
- Ann Thomas (Miss Duffy)
- Charles Cantor (Finnegan)
- George M. Carleton (Mr. Richardson)
- Johnny Coy (Dancer-waiter)
- Catherine Craig (Nurse)
- Howard Da Silva (Heavy)
- Billy De Wolfe (Doctor)
- Frank Faylen (Customer)
- Barry Fitzgerald (Crosbys father)
- Miriam Franklin (Dancer)
- Ed Gardner (Archie)
- Eddie Green (Eddie the waiter)
- Matt McHugh (Regan)
- James Millican (Assist. director)
- Victor Moore (Michael O'Malley)
- Marjorie Reynolds (Peggy)
- Addison Richards (Mr. Smith)
- Bobby Watson (Masseur)
- Olga San Juan (Gloria)
- Barry Sullivan (Danny Murphy)
- Emmett Vogan (Make-up man)
REVIEWS:
Blink and you miss them.. Ladd and Lake do a skit that must have been old hat even back in the 40's.
It's nice to see them and that's about all you can say.
Thrown together tat using big names to sell a pretty lacklustre plot.
No-one tries very hard to make something out of this really fractured plot and it's obvious everyone turned up for a pay cheque but it does have some charm in it's lightly made plotting.
Ladd and Lake are paired up for a couple of very short scenes totalling under 3 minutes. One where they are overheard practising lines and thought to be plotting a murder and another (very awkward) scene where Ladd intervenes as Lake's date slaps her face.
Mostly it's lightweight fluff that's inoffensive, dated and forgettable.
Author: Mark R Nash (Wales, UK)
