FILM

    Guys and Dolls

    Guys and Dolls

    Presented by The Colonial Theatre

    June 26, 2011


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    “Guys and Dolls is a bang-up film musical in the top-drawer Goldwyn manner, including a resurrection of the Goldwyn Girls.

    The casting is good all the way. Much interest will focus, of course, around Marlon Brando in the Robert Alda stage original and Jean Simmons as the Salvation Army sergeant (created by Isabel Bigley), and they deport themselves in inspired manner. They make believable the offbeat romance between the gambler and the spirited servant of the gospel.

    Vivian Blaine is capital in her original stage role. Frank Sinatra is an effective vis-a-vis in the Sam Levene original of Nathan Detroit and among the four they handle the burden of the score.

    The action shifts from the Times Square street scenes to the Havana idyll, where Brando had taken the mission doll (‘on a bet’). ” (Variety, 1955)

    1955: Nominations: Best Color Cinematography, Color Costume Design, Color Art Direction, Scoring of a Musical Picture

    Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. US. 1955. NR. Running time: 150 min.


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        $8 / $6 / $5

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        Dates:
        June 26, 2011

        Times:

        2:00PM


         

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