Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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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...
...movie version is best when it stays closest to the stage show, which, fortunately, it does much of the time. The book, first pieced together by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling from some Damon Runyon stories, suffers very little in the transition. It still traces the frantic efforts of Nathan Detroit the manager of "the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York," to find a home for his business activities safe from annoying policemen. Detroit thinks his rent-money problem is solved when he bets one of his customers, Sky Masterson, that Sky cannot take a certain female...