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...Asked at a Manhattan luncheon why he had changed the music in the movie version of the Broadway musicomedy Guys and Dolls, Producer Sam Goldwyn explained: "I put in three new songs to make the show better, and, to prove my point, two of the songs are already No. 1 on the Hit Parade...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...
According to current Hollywood theory Cinemascope musicals should be as long as they are wide. Sam Goldwyn has therefore made the Broadway show of Guys and Dolls into a bulky picture running well over two and a half hours. Still, the viewer will leave the theatre limp and happy--but probably not as happy as when he saw the original musical...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...
Faithful in detail, the picture is false to the original in its feeling. The Broadway production was as intimate as a hotfoot; the Goldwyn movie takes a blowtorch full of Eastman Color and stereophonic sound to get the same reaction. More specifically, a couple of the principals do not quite deliver. Brando as the gambler has a nylon slickness and the right occupational crimp around the eyes. He dances, too, in one wonderful piece of mambo-jumbo, with a kind of animal rapture that moviegoers will want to see more of but he sings in a faraway tenor that sometimes...