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Guys and Dolls (film)

Guys and Dolls
Guys and dolls movieposter.jpg
Theatrical poster
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Produced by Samuel Goldwyn
Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Ben Hecht
Based on Guys and Dolls
by Abe Burrows (book)
Jo Swerling (book)
Frank Loesser
(music & lyrics)
Damon Runyon (stories)
Starring
Music by Frank Loesser
Cinematography Harry Stradling
Edited by Daniel Mandell
Production
company
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • November 3, 1955 (1955-11-03) (US)
Running time
150 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $5.5 million
Box office $20,000,000

Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by MGM. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1950 Broadway musical by composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows based on "The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon. Dances were choreographed by Michael Kidd, who had also staged the dances for the Broadway production.

At Samuel Goldwyn and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's request, Frank Loesser wrote three new songs for the film: "Pet Me Poppa", "(Your Eyes Are the Eyes of) A Woman in Love", and "Adelaide", the last written specifically for Sinatra. Five songs in the stage musical were omitted from the movie: "A Bushel and a Peck", "My Time of Day", "I've Never Been In Love Before" (although portions of these three songs are heard instrumentally as background music), "More I Cannot Wish You" and "Marry the Man Today".

Gambler Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) seeks to organize an unlicensed crap game but the police, led by Lieutenant Brannigan (Robert Keith), are "putting on the heat". All the places where Nathan usually holds his games refuse him entry due to Brannigan's intimidating pressure. Adding to Nathan's problems, his fiancée, Miss Adelaide (Vivian Blaine), a nightclub singer, wants to bring an end to their 14-year engagement and actually tie the knot. She also wants him to go straight, but organizing illegal gambling is the only thing he's good at.


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