Word: murvyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strung on a practically non-existent plot line. This time, Bing and Bob are a couple of broken down vaudevillians who hire themselves out as deep sea divers in a quest for sunken treasure off the island of Vatu. Along the way, they encounter a dastardly South Sea prince (Murvyn Vye), a Balinese princess of Scottish ancestry (Dorothy Lamour), an amorous gorilla and a giant squid. In addition, there are brief, improbable appearances by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Bob Crosby, Humphrey Bogart (pulling The African Queen through the swamps) and Jane Russell (whom Hope conjures from a basket with...
...play tells of a respectable young woman (Martha Scott) who goes to work for a smooth, ruthless bookie (Murvyn Vye). Though his first rule is that employees may not go out with his customers (to avoid the temptation of putting their interests ahead of his), she disobeys and is soon caught up in a heavy love affair with a tough numbers player (Dane Clark). The two are found out, just at the moment when he legitimately wins a big bet, and the rest of the play is a saga of hideaways, getaways and gunfire. Actors Vye and Clark make persuasive...
...play has its lively moments-bits of stage business, cracks about show business, short vaudeville turns, Murvyn Vye's playing of a slimy actor's agent. But the whole thing seems curiously aimless and trivial, not least because it smacks of the very shoddiness it presumably set out to expose...
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