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I attended Beverly Hills Catholic School with Butler's two sons. The older one David was in my seventh grade class when we did the annual play for the graduating eighth grade class. We decided to do a parody of Around the World in 80 Days, a popular movie at that time. Our play was not coming together when our teacher asked David to get some help from his father. Not only did Butler rewrite the play, he rehearsed every day with us at the parish hall. The play was funny and a great success. Working with a group of no talent seventh graders could not have been easy, but he never complained and seemed to enjoy his work.

Daws Butler was an incredibly talented man and a great father. I will always remember his work with us.

I saw this movie with my family when it came out in 1954. I was 10 yrs old & laughed & cheered with everyone else in the theatre. The next day I described the movie almost scene by scene for my school bus driver who roared with laughter along with me. I have never written an IMDB review before, & this really isn't a review, just memories of the joy a really good comedy could give people. My dad, a bartender, told his customers about this movie, & they laughed & laughed as well. Seeing it again on TCM two days ago, I appreciated the script, the great Irish actors, Niven & DeCarlo giving great performances, but mostly the memory of seeing this comedy & the joy of telling people about it & enjoying it all over again as we did when this movie first came out.

Thanks for letting me share this with you.