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...crap games and has been affianced for 14 years to a nightclub singer (Vivian Elaine) who longs for "a home with wall paper and bookends." The other guy, Sky Masterson (Robert Alda), will bet on any thing - even that he can persuade a "Save-A-Soul Mission" lassie (Isabel Bigley) to go with him to Havana. While the law is missing out on dice games in sewers and Salvationist missions, love gets Sky firmly into its clutches, and leaves him out to make converts rather than points...
...standards, Café was well above average, a briskly paced, lighthearted series of variety acts with a minimum of Berlesque mugging. The Continental flavor was supplied by Swiss yodeling, Gypsy music and French acrobatics. But top honors went to shapely Singer Isabel Bigley, a New Yorker who went to London in 1947 as the lead in Oklahoma! and hopes that another year abroad will give her enough experience for a successful assault on Broadway. "But if M-G-M would like to twist my arm," she says, "I'd be happy to go into pictures...