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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 2, 1956 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 19, 1955 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...women, the virility of Cuban men and the fame of Havana as a city of tradition and culture as well as of rum and rumbas, manned their typewriters again last week. This time the assault was on film: the sequence in Guys and Dolls that shows Gambler Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) and friends living it up with Havana bawds and bravos in a lowdown nightspot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Righteous Wrath | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Strangely enough, several of these characters lose part of their whiskey-soaked charm when they make the trip to Hollywood. Strangely, that is, because they are played by some of the best movie actors. Marlon Brando, as Sky Masterson, acts well enough, but his style seems cramped by the good manners the role requires. Moreover, he can not really sing. Frank Sinatra, however, who can, has fairly little opportunity, and his Nathan Detroit comes out much more sullen than worried. Only Vivian Blaine is at her best as a nightclub singer who has been engaged to Detroit for fourteen years...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Guys and Dolls | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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