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Guys and Dolls is a 1955 American musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine. The picture was made by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay.
Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, [1] [2] and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, such as "Pick the Winner".
[5] When the song was cut from the movie, because producer Samuel Goldwyn "neither liked nor understood the song," [5] Loesser added the song to Guys and Dolls. [6] To devise some of the singular lyrics, Loesser derived "with a sheep's eye" from "making sheep's eyes at" to describe "the imagined lover's almost pitiable adoration of the girl."
Frank Sinatra (recorded for a special Reprise compilation album entitled Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre Presents 'Guys and Dolls') [4] The song was also recorded by Barbra Streisand in 1993 for her album Back to Broadway. [5] Laufey recorded the song for her album Everything I Know About Love (2022)
Guys and Dolls is a 1950 stage musical. Guys and Dolls may also refer to: Guys and Dolls, a 1932 book of short stories by Damon Runyon, on some of whose tales the 1950 musical is based; Guys and Dolls, a 1955 adaptation of the musical "Guys and Dolls" (Married... with Children), an episode of the TV series Married... with Children; Guys 'n ...
The song was introduced in the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, [1] which opened at the 46th Street Theater on November 24, 1950. It was performed on stage by Vivian Blaine and a women's chorus as a nightclub act at the Hot Box. It is the first of two nightclub performances in the musical.
Guys 'n' Dolls continued as a quartet, with their third album Together (1977) depicting just the four remaining members. The group scored a final minor hit in the UK in 1978, and, after failing to renew their contract with Magnet Records , concentrated on their success in the Netherlands, where they continued having hits for the next few years.
The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote: "Evans is still in his tough, boppish salad days, and when paired with Costa's equally brisk and searching solos the six Guys and Dolls themes come in for productive scrutiny." [2] The AllMusic reviewer commented that "Costa and Evans mesh beautifully throughout, and Costa's solos are well crafted". [1]