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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".
Guys and Dolls (film) Guys and Dolls. (film) 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.
Songwriter (s) Frank Loesser. " More I Cannot Wish You " is a song written and composed by Frank Loesser and first performed by Pat Rooney in 1950. [1][2] The song was featured in the musical Guys and Dolls. The sentimental lyrics relate the feelings of the oldest character in the play, missionary Arvide Abernathy, [3] who sings it tenderly to ...
Which is where Guys & Dolls and James Corden, post his life on The […] It’s fine to have heavy-lifting dramas by Ibsen or Schiller, but boy-oh-boy laughter is an increasingly uplifting necessity.
Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat. " Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat " is a song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical, Guys and Dolls, which opened at the 46th Street Theatre on November 24, 1950. In the context of the show, gambler Nicely-Nicely Johnson invents a dream about being ...
Songwriter (s) Frank Loesser. " A Bushel and a Peck " is a popular song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950. 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.
Dinah Shore covered the tune on the 1963 Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre album of Guys and Dolls; Sarah Vaughan sang the song as a duet with Joe Williams, backed by the Count Basie Orchestra, on Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan. Dinah Washington covered it for her album In the Land of Hi-Fi (1956). [8]
Frank Henry Loesser (/ ˈlɛsər / "lesser"; June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won a Tony Award for Guys and Dolls and shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for How to Succeed.