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Danny's eleven consists of himself and ten other ruffians, all former members of a commando-like World War II unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. The old soldiers are played by such members of Sinatra's off-screen Clan as Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr., and a jollier lot has not tripped the screen since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Their idea of a veterans' meeting is not to salute the flag and then sit down to play pinochle; they decide, with the help of an imaginative racketeer (Akim Tamiroff...
...that the traits of the "real" Paar are very like those of the TV Paar-the difference being that off screen they loom much bigger. Says he: "It is not true that my personality is split. It is filleted. On the air all I do is hold back. If I gave too much of myself on the show, it would be too much for the cable." If the on-screen Paar can be kind and sentimental, the off-screen Paar often weeps like a baby. If the public Paar can be waspish and oddly defensive, the private Paar often seems...
...entirely too far in the other direction; she looks like a nun who had been only mildly unattractive until she met with a nasty accident. Since her beauty is the fulcrum of the plot, it sags heavily whenever she is around; happily enough, she spend most of the time off-screen in the arms of her lover...
...daughter is played by Josette Day; she is Fernandel's daughter in private life, but could not be accused of being in the least like Fernandel. Since her baby is born off-screen, she does not have a great deal to do except look beguiling and innocent, which she does very nicely...
...Shush, Baby." Instead of an ego-massaging entourage of yesmen, the old ham had only his personal valet, Lorenzo Chestnut, by his side. In Chestnut's hands were the familiar Berle off-screen props: a soiled towel for mopping the star, a glass of water, a fistful of Dunhill's Larranaga cigars with big white billing on the cellophane: "SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR MILTON BERLE." Said Lorenzo: "I keep one lit for him when he comes off." As Berle waited glumly for his cue, he scowled at a monitor and frazzled the seven-in. Larranaga. "Shush, baby, shush...