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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". [3]
- Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling
- 1992
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.
Guys & Dolls. The Bridge transforms for one of the greatest musicals of all time. It has more hit songs, more laughs and more romance than any show ever written. The seating is wrapped around the action while the immersive tickets transport you to the streets of Manhattan and the bars of Havana in the unlikeliest of love stories.
Synopsis. Guys and Dolls is a musical romantic comedy involving the unlikeliest of Manhattan pairings: a high-rolling gambler and a puritanical missionary, a showgirl dreaming of the straight-and-narrow and a crap game manager who is anything but. Set in the Manhattan of Damon Runyon’s short stories, Guys and Dolls tells of con-man Nathan ...
Guys and Dolls: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine. In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
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- Comedy, Crime, Musical
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1955-12-23
Guys and Dolls. Nicholas Hytner and Bunny Christie’s game-changing immersive production continues to thrill with its second cast. Monday 15 April 2024. Buy ticket. Written by Andrzej Lukowski.
Guys and Dolls, American musical film, released in 1955, that was adapted from the triumphant stage hit of the same name, which was based on writings by Damon Runyon. The story follows the antic efforts of compulsive New York gambler Nathan Detroit (played by Frank Sinatra ) to stage a high-profile but illegal craps game before the police can stop him—or his long-suffering girlfriend can ...
