Guys and Dolls | |
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Directed by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Screenplay by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Based on | Guys and Dolls by Abe Burrows (book) Jo Swerling (book) Frank Loesser (music and lyrics) Damon Runyon (stories) |
Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Harry Stradling |
Edited by | Daniel Mandell |
Music by | Frank Loesser |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 150 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $5.5 million |
Box office | $6,874,673 (U.S. and Canada rentals) [1] |
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. The film is based on the 1950 Broadway musical by composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, which, in turn, was loosely based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon.[2] Dances were choreographed by Michael Kidd, who had staged the dances for the Broadway production.