Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Artie Shaw, 35, bandleader; ex-husband of Cinemactress Lana Turner; and Ava Gardner, 21, starlet, ex-Mrs. Mickey Rooney; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Hollywood...
Paramount's latest block party is typical of all these potpourris. It is based this time on the popular radio program, Duffy's Tavern, and it is held together, flimsily as usual, by the attempts of amiable Ed Gardner, the inimitable Archie, aided and abetted by the perennial Victor Moore, to put together a block party (surprisingly enough) with all the available talent from the Paramount...
...long list of stars must take a back seat to Paramount's latest find, though Ed Gardner's many fans could have told us years ago about this new-found "Maggotism, personal maggotism." This modern Malaprop steals the show with his classic but chering of the King's English, and his latest crack about Duffy and his money--"That guy, if he can't take it with him to Heaven, positively won't go!"--more than atones for the rest of the ordeal...
Archie (Ed Gardner), the Duffy bar tender, is feeding and boozing 14 unemployed exservicemen in the back room, strictly on his frayed cuff. Their former employer, O'Malley (Victor Moore), is clumsily trying to connive the shellac and the funds to reopen his record factory...
There is a friendly, disreputable air about much that goes on in Duffy's Tavern. Victor Moore, in handling everything from a glass of brandy to a paintbrush, is a virtuoso of the fumble. Ed Gardner, who rather suggests a ravaged Randolph Scott, is as agreeable to see as he is to hear. His specialty is straight verbal misfires such as "satisfied public accountant," his proud claim to sexual "maggotism" and his wistful reference to his Harvard days ("good old Eli"). But he also delivers a permanent description of a moneybag: "If he can't take it with...