Saturday, March 2, 2013

Duffy's Tavern - March 2, 1944 - Billie Burke

Actress Billie Burke stops by. Best known today for playing Glinda in The Wizard of Oz (1939), she had been a Broadway star and had played ditzy women in a number of drawing-room comedies (preparing her well to fit in at Duffy's). A pitch for War Bonds is worked conversationally into the first scene, which was a common technique during the war years.

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