Guys and Dolls (1955) |
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Guys and Dolls Cast |
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Jean Simmons
(as Sergeant Sarah Brown)
with Marlon Brando
(as Sky Masterson)
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Other InformationAwardsBest Foreign Actress BAFTA Awards [1957] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Film from any Source BAFTA Awards [1957] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Written American Musical Writers Guild of America, USA [1956] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy Golden Globes [1956] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy Golden Globes [1956] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Academy Awards [1956] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Costume Design, Color Academy Awards [1956] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Cinematography, Color Academy Awards [1956] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Academy Awards [1956] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryThis 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This material was fleshed out into a 2-act libretto by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling, then set to music by Frank Loesser and directe... DiscographySinglesSit Down You`re Rockin` the Boat Sue Me Luck Be a Lady Take Back Your Mink My Time of Day If I Were a Bell Adelaide For He`s a Jolly Good Fellow Adelaide`s Lament I`ve Never Been In Love Before Pet Me Poppa I`ll Know The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game)" Follow the Fold Fugue for Tinhorns A Woman in Love Guys and Dolls |
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Guys and Dolls (1955) was nominated for the following awards:
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Sky Masterson: It is my understanding that the Constitution of the United States allows everybody the free choice between cheesecake and strudel.
Big Jule: If it gets around in Chicago that I went to a prayer meeting, no decent person will talk to me!
Sky Masterson: Daddy, I got cider in my ear
Sky Masterson: General, on behalf of the former sinners of the future I would like to protest the closing of this mission.
Sky Masterson: The companionship of a doll is a pleasant thing even for a period of time running into months. But for a close relationship that can last us through all the years of our life, no doll can take the place of aces back to back.
Sky Masterson: I am not putting the knock on dolls. It`s just that they are something to have around only when they come in handy... like cough drops.
Sky Masterson: For two weeks I gambled in green pastures. The dice were my cousins and the dolls were agreeable with nice teeth and no last names.
Nathan Detroit: I have been running the crap game since I was a juvenile delinquent.
Miss Adelaide: Speaking of chronic conditions, happy anniversary.
Sky Masterson: One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you`re going to wind up with an ear full of cider.
Nathan Detroit: Everybody in the whole world who hates me is now here.
Trivia The song "A Woman in Love" was not in the original show and was written for the movie. It became a hit record for several recording artists. One of the songs not featured in the movie is Adelaide`s and Sarah`s duet "Marry the Man Today," which may have been considered to be too derogatory. Frank Sinatra loathed the non-singing Marlon Brando for getting the starring role, while Sinatra got a lesser part. His nickname for the sometimes barely coherent Brando was "Mumbles." After filming repeated takes of the scene where Sky (Marlon Brando) and Nathan (Frank Sinatra) first meet, they had to quit for the day when Sinatra had too much cheesecake. He said he could not take one more bite. Practical joker (some would say jerk) Brando, knowing how much Sinatra hated cheesecake, purposely flubbed each take so that Sinatra would have to eat piece after piece of cheesecake. The next day, they came back and shot the scene perfectly on the first take. The original choice for the role of Salvation Army worker Sarah Brown was Grace Kelly. Jerry Orbach, who later played Sky Masterson in a 1965 Off-Broadway revival of the stage production, makes an uncredited appearance in one of the early scenes of the film. Twenty years old at the time, Orbach is seen spinning around as a customer in one of the chairs at the barber shop, and shaking Frank Sinatra`s hand as the main part of the song "The Oldest Established" begins. Orbach sings the single line "Why, it`s good old reliable Nathan". The character of Sky Masterson is rumored to be based upon New York sportswriter - and former frontier marshal - Bat Masterson. In another rumor and according to David Blaine`s book, Mysterious Stranger, Sky Masterson was based on one of the few men to successfully con gangster Al Capone. Several of the songs from the Broadway show that were cut from the film were featured in the movie as background music. Among them are "A Bushel and a Peck", "My Time of Day" and "I`ve Never Been In Love Before". Sky Masterson`s real name is Obadiah.
This was the only Samuel Goldwyn production to be released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Gene Kelly was sought for the role of Sky Masterson, but MGM refused to loan Kelly to Goldwyn. The decision to cast Marlon Brando was hotly contested, largely by Frank Sinatra, who wanted the part of Sky Masterson himself. Later in his career, he made Sky`s big number "Luck Be A Lady" part of his stage act. The songs "A Woman in Love", "Pet Me Poppa" and "Adelaide" were written for the screen version and were not in the original Broadway show. On Broadway, Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) doesn`t sing in the title song. That was added for the film to increase Sinatra`s singing part. Marilyn Monroe wanted to play Adelaide, but director Joseph L. Mankiewicz didn`t want to work with her again (she appeared briefly in All About Eve (1950)) and supposedly pretended he never got her phone messages. Betty Grable was in talks to play Adelaide but when she canceled on the director to be with her sick dog, she was dropped. Judy Holliday was also briefly considered for the role. The audio for each of Brando`s musical numbers is constructed from multiple takes.
After a tryout in Philadelphia, the play opened on Broadway on 24 November 1950 and closed on 28 November 1953 after 1200 performances. The play won a Tony for best musical and another for best choreography for Michael Kidd, who staged the dances and musical numbers in this movie. Original cast members included Robert Alda (father of Alan Alda) as Sky Masterson, Isabel Bigley as Sarah Brown, and Sam Levene as Nathan Detroit. Vivian Blaine as Adelaide, Stubby Kaye as Nicely-Nicely Johnson, B.S. Pully as Big Jule and Johnny Silver as Benny Southstreet all appeared in their original Broadway roles for the movie. | ||
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