Duffy's Tavern

Duffy's Tavern (1945)

The Biggest star party in Hollywood history!

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

Date of release
1945-09-28
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 37m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Hal Walker

Casting

Interesting facts

Duffy's Tavern is a 1945 American all-star cast musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and written by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. Produced and released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars Ed Gardner, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Paulette Goddard, Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour, Eddie Bracken and Brian Donlevy, with Victor Moore, Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Cantor and Eddie Green.

Production

Multiple studios attempted to buy the film rights to Duffy's Tavern including Leo Spitz representing Universal Pictures, who offered $250,000 for the screen rights and Jack Moss representing Columbia Pictures. On August 17, 1943, Paramount won the bid for the film rights to Duffy's Tavern for an undisclosed amount, outbidding six other Hollywood studios.

The film was originally meant to be produced by Paul Jones and adapted for the screen by Mac Benoff, a writer from the Duffy's Tavern radio show, but they were replaced by Danny Dare, Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. Buddy DeSylva assumed general supervision of the film at the start of its production.

Ed Gardner temporarily relocated to Hollywood in March, 1944 to work on the film. Filming was slated to begin on July 1, 1944. Instead filming started on September 25, 1944 and ended on December 15th, 1944.

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