I've never seen GUYS AND DOLLS before! This is a true masterpiece! Love the one-liners and the very cool double entendre jokes. Great costuming, dancing and music! SO digging this movie!
This is the Musical to make you fall in love with musicals, from a Old NYers point of view. It doesnt begin here, but this is the live beating heart of musical theater ala Broadway.
If you enjoyed the always delightful Stubby Kaye as Nicely Nicely in this you might also enjoy his running duet as narration alongside the incomparable Nat King Cole in the Jane Fonda comedy western Cat Ballou.
Played Nicely in a production of this musical during my junior year of high school back in fall 2008. My dad will never forget my singing of "Sit Down, You're Rockin the Boat". Love this musical.
im curently a sophmore in a highschool production of guys and dolls (im a gambler and also part of sit down you're rocking the boat) and coincidentaly i was born in 2008 lol
The lack of commercials compared to most of the free movies was wonderful. Thank you for this movie, it is wonderful to see Marlon Brando and my mo ther's favorite Frank Sinatra, the music is so enjoyable.
I love that the stars in this movie sang with their own voices. Lots of musicals back then were dubbed with singers for the actors. But Brando insisted using his voice.
@@sloburnjoHe also says so in his autobiography. He mentions that he was only able to sing due to a hard editing process that edited his many takes into one
Wonderful movie. For ages I've heard about this film but never cared to watch it, though I knew many of the tunes played in it. Joseph Mackiewicz was a f***ing genius, for only a genius could shoot "All About Eve" and this film and do it both in a convincing way and with such good results.
@@munjister177 He directed and also wrote the dialogues for G&D. Earlier, he directed the Shakespearean play, Julius Caesar, in which Brando played Mark Antony.
People always mention Sinatra and Brando, but the real star is Vivian Blaine. She's spectacular. Stars like Sinatra were notoriously reluctant to rehearse and wanted everything to be perfect in the 1st or 2nd take. Vivian was a consummate professional and could meet everyone at their level of performing.
Im wildly aplauding this release while simultaneously wondering how it was managed while Hollywood Accountants, copyright lawyers and IP managers still walk the earth. Well done.
G & D was the last show that I did in community theatre umpteen years ago; I was a mission lady. We had had occasional sound issues in the auditorium we were using but nothing too bad. Then one night, Nicely-Nicely started Sit Down and the track just wouldn't play. 😬 There was a momentary pause, then our actor, who really was excellent, just picked the song up and ran with it like he was going for a 100 yard touchdown and we all stayed right with him! An a capella version of Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat!! 😃 The audience applauded long and hard. We amazed ourselves because we all stayed together and didn’t drag or rush the song. It was awesome! 😄
54:50 “Adelaide’s Lament” taught me about psychosomatic stress when I was 6 years old. What a tremendous gift for a child to learn so young! All should learn that part. 🙌 Thank you, writer Vivian Blaine!! 🙏🥰🙏❤️🩹🙏
This is one of my all time favorite shows. In the early 1970s, in Summer Repertory Theater, I was stage manager and rehearsal accompanist for G & D. i was also understudy for Miss Adelaide. Thankfully, our actress stayed well through the entire run. I got to see the Broadway road company show in SF.
I went with my Mom to see a live "road" production of this starring Lorna Luft at the Fair Park Music Hall in Dallas back in the mid 90's(?). I think it was during intermission my Mom made the comment to the effect that Lorna Luft in the role of Sister Sarah was not NEARLY as impressive as she was hoping it would be but that she thought the Miss Adelaide performance was MUCH MUCH more entertaing and enjoyable. I chuckled a bit and then revealed to her that the Miss Adelaide performance she had been enjoying so much up to that point WAS Judy Garland's "other Daughter". I have always had a similar reaction to the movie version. I've always felt like Vivian Blaine's Miss Adelaide is what makes this version of Guys and Dolls so incredibly enjoyable. This movie and the Fair Park Lorna Luft performance are the only performances of this particular masterpiece of American musical theater I've ever seen so I don't know for certain but from my experience of it I'm guessing maybe Miss Adelaide has been written and ALWAYS performed to "steal the show". Other than the incredibly gorgeous vision of a young Marlon Brando in his absolute prime it's always been Vivian Blaine's and a VERY young Frank Sinatra's performances that have been the reason I keep coming back to watch this movie over and over again.
Wonderful film. Mankievick never was pictured as a Musical Film Director but being such a great director he was able to cope with everything.. And last but not least, Brandon sings🎉🎉 🎉. So how could ask for anything more
I get you but let's honest ... Brando's "singing" is only juust a bit more competent than Rex Harrison's Professor Higgins😉. You don't watch Guys and Dolls (1955) for Brando's singing ... you watch Guys and Dolls (1955) because Marlon Brando is SO GORGEOUS to look at.
@@amherst88 Well, there was La Boheme with Pavarotti, too. Still love this. And a Mario Lanza album. She didn't buy much music, but I do. I knew who Miss Adelaide was before I knew who Bozo the Clown was, let me put it that way. You might like Bobby's take on this...ua-cam.com/video/49pxZJblM-s/v-deo.html
@@hudsony777 mine too one of my earliest memories of the Guys and Dolls soundtrack is my mom singing “ Adelaide’s Lament” to me as she baby while feeding me.
Movies made around 60's reflects the life style of Americans. It was like heaven on earth. People really had a great time. People of that time must be recalling "Those Good Olden Days"
First it wasn’t the 60s. It’s based on a great Broadway musical that premiered 1948. The lead was played by Robert Alda (father of Mash’s Allen Alda.) Two of the original cast reprised their stand-out roles in the movie - Stubby Kaye and Vivian Blaine. It was based on NYC stereotype characters created by famous writer Damon Runyon.
Count the blessings. What i meant was after the 2nd world war, US became strong and finally emerged as super power in 60's. Though these are old stories, but its like "old wine in new bottle".
I saw this great musical play in San Francisco back in the 1980s. I find it amusing that in this movie the actor who played The Godfather actually sang and danced when he was younger.
It's the real thing--the score, the choreography, the technicolor. I'm so-so about the casting but it's fool-proof. Did I mention how great the choreography is? That's Michael Kidd. Classic opening niumber...and the Gambler's dance in the sewer....did I menton how great the choreography is?
I'm on a Frank Sinatra kick lately, watched From Here To Eternity, The Joker Is Wild, Suddenly, now Guys and Dolls. The guy was a totally underrated actor, he was such a good singer that it outshone his acting skills completely.
In "Adelaide's Lament" where she sings "the female remaining single, constantly in suspense", the on-stage lyric was "the female remaining single, just in the legal sense". They cleaned up that one!
@@hudsony777 Maybe the stage production I saw ("legal sense") was a change from the original, which I am not old enough to have seen, so it's possible it's the other way round.
In "I'll Know," where Sky sings (in the stage version), "You have wished yourself a Scarsdale Galahad, the breakfast-eating Brooks-Brothers type," was changed in the film as "You have wished yourself a small-town Galahad, the breakfast-eating four-button type." To avoid offending Scarsdale residents and Brooks Brothers tailors, I suppose. Frank Loesser's lyrics are so descriptive.
Did anyone find it amazing and delightful that Jean Simmons could throw a decent punch, and hurl tableware like a major league baseball pitcher, in the Havana fight scene? Whoever coached her for that choreography did a great job. You wouldn't expect to see something like that in a 1950s production.
Yes, Jean Simmons is truly amazing in this movie. In an interview, she said her entire family was very athletic; her father was Britain's gymnast entry to the Olympics in his time. You should also find amazing her hard slap at Brando's face at the end of "I'll Know" (after the stolen kiss). I think Brando was really shaken by it, he almost forgot his next line. 😜
When i saw this as a small child, i really believed that this movie was filmed in NYC. i didn't realize that it was a sound stage until i was in my 20s! 😆🤣
The highlight of this movie - Guys & Dolls - was the hit number 'Woman in love' which was sung by Marlon Brando in his own voice. Commercially, the song was a chart-buster in circa 1956-57 sung by Frankie Laine and broke all records. Oh yes, it's fun to see both Marlon and Jean Simmons [ a personal fave] dance up a storm in this film..
Marlon Brando is the greatest actor because of his unmatched acting range. From 1950-60 he played a paraplegic in THE MEN, Stanley Kowalski in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, a Mexican revolutionary in VIVA ZAPATA, Mark Anthony in JULIUS CEASAR, a Hell's Angel, Terry Malloy in ON THE WATERFRONT, Napoleon in DESIREE, sang and danced in GUYS AND DOLLS, a Japanese man(!!!) in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, a contrite nazi in YOUNG LIONS then directed ONE EYED JACKS.
The first film I saw Marlon Brando in, which I enjoyed immensely, was Bedtime Story, with David Niven. I much prefer Brando in these types of roles when he was young.
You forgot the guitarist Val Xavier in the movie The Fugitive Kind, and Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara (1957). I thought his performance as a Japanese in 'Teahouse" was terrible. As much as i think he was a great actor, imo Montgomery Clift was better and more focused, Brando could be very focused sometimes and other times he was lazy and didn't care.
I love, love, love, love these 1950's Michael Jackson gangster clothes. ..."You been hit by, you been struck by....a smooth criminal!"..HEEEEEEEEE...........
Very interesting. It's not only a musical movie, but as much as I understood, it's a movie about the missionary. Though a bet was taken, but the sinners came to the prayer meeting and confessed their sins.
Because they never pulled in the crowds at the box office. Oliver and Hello Dolly were the last of the two though they did OK at the Box Office they did not do great.
@@NRTSean According to Wikipedia (referencing Variety), G & D was the number one moneymaking film in 1956. In his autobiography, "Songs My Mother Taught me," Brando says that at the Opening Night, the limousine that was taking him and Jean Simmons to the celebration on Times Sq got stuck in an enormous crowd that the car's window broke and injured a fan. He and Jean had to be physically taken out of the car and carried by police to the site. Brando likened the huge mob to what Frank Sinatra used to encounter in his "bobby-sox days," and when the Beatles came to the U.S. Brando disapproved of such adulation of celebrities.
@@LauLentil I agree, just imagine Frank Sinatra singing Luck Be A Lady. Marlon Brando can't sing! Jean Simmons might have acted well but she couldn't sing either. I have seen this live on stage with leads who could sing, much better!
Ditto! MGM and Mankiewicz brought to the screen a Broadway classic that most of us would otherwise not get to see. THE GENERATION GAP. Despite the mostly favorable response here, naysayers alledge miscasting mostly, ignoring the splendid score, the smart dialogue, Vivian Blaine's Adelaide (!), Michael Kidd's cinematography or the MGM production values of a once popular vanishing genre. One of Sinatra's less involved performances, but Brando and Simmons in their early confrontation convey the chemistry between their characters, as they had in 'Desirée' a year or so earlier. Sheldon Leonard, tv legend, is featured early on with Stubby Kaye.
@@LauLentil100% agreed. I've always believed that if Dean Martin had played Sky Masterson along with Frank as Nathan, this film would have been a classic!
@@mjd4502 Sinatra could have played Sky Masterson, so Dean Martin would play Nathan Detroit. And outside of this movie, Marlon Brando would be excellent. 🤭
Very colorful and fun film to watch. I watched this movie on Tubi weeks ago. Brando should've won an Oscar for his character in this movie (For Best Actor). 😊
@@markblass4490 Orbach is in this film. He is the first to recognize Nathan Detroit in the barbershop scene, singing one line in the "Oldest Established," i.e., "Why, it's good old reliable Nathan..."
Frank Sinatra wanted to do the Sky Masterson part but the producers chose the hot property Marlon Brando . Sinatra had hard feelings towards Brando but did the Nathan Detroit part . The leading lady Jean Simmons was not a singer but she was pretty potent in the 1950s box office . Miss Simmons along with Elizabeth Taylor were considered for the Audrey Hepburn part in Roman Holiday . Vivian Blaine who had done movies mainly in the 1940s was recreating her Broadway role . Stubby Kaye , B S Pully and Johnny Silver were also hold overs in their original Broadway roles .
If I could change one thing about this musical, it would be to get rid of the girly numbers at the club. They don't add a thing, and make my skin crawl. That said, this is still one of the best musicals of all time. It was so fresh and unlike any other. Today's musicals are not musical at all for the most part. The songs are not memorable and creative like the songs in Guys and Dolls are.
I agree with you. However, as was the genre of musicals at that time, there were musical interludes in between the acts. At least the girly numbers in G&D are not as creepy as the Harem dream sequence in Oklahoma. In the junior high school version of G&D, the girly numbers afford for more participants to join in the show.
I've never seen GUYS AND DOLLS before! This is a true masterpiece! Love the one-liners and the very cool double entendre jokes. Great costuming, dancing and music! SO digging this movie!
This is the Musical to make you fall in love with musicals, from a Old NYers point of view. It doesnt begin here, but this is the live beating heart of musical theater ala Broadway.
If you enjoyed the always delightful Stubby Kaye as Nicely Nicely in this you might also enjoy his running duet as narration alongside the incomparable Nat King Cole in the Jane Fonda comedy western Cat Ballou.
@@davidrichards6509 My all time favorite movie with Jane Fonda! Master class!
There's always a new generation to discover GUYS AND DOLLS!
RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH...................!!!!! YAWN YAWN
Played Nicely in a production of this musical during my junior year of high school back in fall 2008. My dad will never forget my singing of "Sit Down, You're Rockin the Boat". Love this musical.
I LOVE that number!
Beautiful memory! Congrats!
Played Nathan in my High School production in 1982
That’s the song I wanted to sing…had the high note and everything. We did the show in the Spring of 1982, my senior year.
im curently a sophmore in a highschool production of guys and dolls (im a gambler and also part of sit down you're rocking the boat) and coincidentaly i was born in 2008 lol
One of my favorite lines is "this would be a great way to get children to drink milk." Makes me laugh every time.
Thankyou for coming to youtube. Can't believe these movies so hard to find once can be watched in UA-cam. Thankyou again.
The lack of commercials compared to most of the free movies was wonderful. Thank you for this movie, it is wonderful to see Marlon Brando and my mo ther's favorite Frank Sinatra, the music is so enjoyable.
How did you manage to see it without the commercials in it?
I love that the stars in this movie sang with their own voices. Lots of musicals back then were dubbed with singers for the actors. But Brando insisted using his voice.
imdb trivia states that his final vocals on tape were spliced together from many takes lol
@@sloburnjoHe also says so in his autobiography. He mentions that he was only able to sing due to a hard editing process that edited his many takes into one
@@sloburnjo It was done that way with every song in every musical film. Brando just wanted to appear self-deprecating.
I know many people disagree but I loved Marlon as Sky Masterson.
me as well. perfectly cast!!!!
I loved everyone as everybody.
He brought so much swag and charisma to that role, he owned it.
@@fernandomaron87 yep!
I played Adelaide in a stage version many years ago. It was one of my favourite roles. Many memories.
Wonderful movie. For ages I've heard about this film but never cared to watch it, though I knew many of the tunes played in it. Joseph Mackiewicz was a f***ing genius, for only a genius could shoot "All About Eve" and this film and do it both in a convincing way and with such good results.
Sensational!!!
Wait so... The same guy that directed the excellently tight All About Eve directed this film!? Now I've GOTTA watch them!
@@munjister177 He directed and also wrote the dialogues for G&D. Earlier, he directed the Shakespearean play, Julius Caesar, in which Brando played Mark Antony.
Wonderful choreography, songs words, film’s script, happy ending. Perfect film!!! ❤
And…rewatchability!😁
Absolutely WONDERFUL!
So glad we watched it again after all these many decades.
I love old movies. Like wine getting better with time.
You know you're in for a great ride! Compare that to movies of today.
People always mention Sinatra and Brando, but the real star is Vivian Blaine. She's spectacular. Stars like Sinatra were notoriously reluctant to rehearse and wanted everything to be perfect in the 1st or 2nd take. Vivian was a consummate professional and could meet everyone at their level of performing.
Im wildly aplauding this release while simultaneously wondering how it was managed while Hollywood Accountants, copyright lawyers and IP managers still walk the earth. Well done.
Well done, indeed, and my gratitude.
Me, too. Its copyright does not expire for another 30 years or so. And yet we are, enjoying it for free.
G & D was the last show that I did in community theatre umpteen years ago; I was a mission lady. We had had occasional sound issues in the auditorium we were using but nothing too bad. Then one night, Nicely-Nicely started Sit Down and the track just wouldn't play. 😬 There was a momentary pause, then our actor, who really was excellent, just picked the song up and ran with it like he was going for a 100 yard touchdown and we all stayed right with him! An a capella version of Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat!! 😃
The audience applauded long and hard. We amazed ourselves because we all stayed together and didn’t drag or rush the song. It was awesome! 😄
There's no business like show business...the show must go on! Great memory!
Well done, all of you!❤
@@eshaibraheem4218 - 😊
It's amazing what you can do when the adrenalin kicks in. You run on instinct.
Jean Simmons & Marlon Brando are incredible singing IF I WERE A BELL and A WOMAN IN LOVE.
I love their chemistry! "Chemistry?!"
@@sigil8386 "Yeah! Chemistry."
@@romanclay1913 😄. The whole movie makes me happy.
I played Sarah in my high school musical way back in 1976. It was so much fun. 😊
54:50 “Adelaide’s Lament” taught me about psychosomatic stress when I was 6 years old. What a tremendous gift for a child to learn so young! All should learn that part. 🙌 Thank you, writer Vivian Blaine!! 🙏🥰🙏❤️🩹🙏
This is one of my all time favorite shows. In the early 1970s, in Summer Repertory Theater, I was stage manager and rehearsal accompanist for G & D. i was also understudy for Miss Adelaide. Thankfully, our actress stayed well through the entire run. I got to see the Broadway road company show in SF.
I went with my Mom to see a live "road" production of this starring Lorna Luft at the Fair Park Music Hall in Dallas back in the mid 90's(?). I think it was during intermission my Mom made the comment to the effect that Lorna Luft in the role of Sister Sarah was not NEARLY as impressive as she was hoping it would be but that she thought the Miss Adelaide performance was MUCH MUCH more entertaing and enjoyable. I chuckled a bit and then revealed to her that the Miss Adelaide performance she had been enjoying so much up to that point WAS Judy Garland's "other Daughter". I have always had a similar reaction to the movie version. I've always felt like Vivian Blaine's Miss Adelaide is what makes this version of Guys and Dolls so incredibly enjoyable. This movie and the Fair Park Lorna Luft performance are the only performances of this particular masterpiece of American musical theater I've ever seen so I don't know for certain but from my experience of it I'm guessing maybe Miss Adelaide has been written and ALWAYS performed to "steal the show". Other than the incredibly gorgeous vision of a young Marlon Brando in his absolute prime it's always been Vivian Blaine's and a VERY young Frank Sinatra's performances that have been the reason I keep coming back to watch this movie over and over again.
Such a legendary classic packed filled with the best of 'em.
Wonderful film. Mankievick never was pictured as a Musical Film Director but being such a great director he was able to cope with everything.. And last but not least, Brandon sings🎉🎉 🎉. So how could ask for anything more
I get you but let's honest ... Brando's "singing" is only juust a bit more competent than Rex Harrison's Professor Higgins😉. You don't watch Guys and Dolls (1955) for Brando's singing ... you watch Guys and Dolls (1955) because Marlon Brando is SO GORGEOUS to look at.
@@davidrichards6509... Something like that 😜
My mother played the original Broadway score for this again and again throughout my childhood. Over and over. And over. And over.
Mine too (though not only this one :)
@@amherst88 Well, there was La Boheme with Pavarotti, too. Still love this. And a Mario Lanza album. She didn't buy much music, but I do. I knew who Miss Adelaide was before I knew who Bozo the Clown was, let me put it that way. You might like Bobby's take on this...ua-cam.com/video/49pxZJblM-s/v-deo.html
@@hudsony777 mine too one of my earliest memories of the Guys and Dolls soundtrack is my mom singing “ Adelaide’s Lament” to me as she baby while feeding me.
@@SwampNymph522 You have an exceptional memory.
@@hudsony777 I just remember my mom telling me about it repeatedly not when it really happened but thats what I associate it with.
Movies like this are no longer made. It's sad@😢 love this movie, Marlon Brando had a beautiful voice.😊❤
Yeah, so deeply, so masculine. Now, look at girly Leo di C!🎉
Movies made around 60's reflects the life style of Americans. It was like heaven on earth. People really had a great time. People of that time must be recalling "Those Good Olden Days"
Seems to me there were riots in Watts & Chicago, & US lads were in danger of getting sent to Vietnam 🇻🇳 during the 60s. Not quite heaven.
This film was made in 1956@@aclark903
First it wasn’t the 60s. It’s based on a great Broadway musical that premiered 1948. The lead was played by Robert Alda (father of Mash’s Allen Alda.) Two of the original cast reprised their stand-out roles in the movie - Stubby Kaye and Vivian Blaine. It was based on NYC stereotype characters created by famous writer Damon Runyon.
this is based on characters and mores from the 20 & 30s adapted to stage in 1950 then filmed in 1954/55
Count the blessings. What i meant was after the 2nd world war, US became strong and finally emerged as super power in 60's. Though these are old stories, but its like "old wine in new bottle".
I saw this great musical play in San Francisco back in the 1980s. I find it amusing that in this movie the actor who played The Godfather actually sang and danced when he was younger.
Movie sooo funny! Cute! Well done! I love these old timeless classics! Thank you!😊🎉
It's the real thing--the score, the choreography, the technicolor. I'm so-so about the casting but it's fool-proof. Did I mention how great the choreography is? That's Michael Kidd. Classic opening niumber...and the Gambler's dance in the sewer....did I menton how great the choreography is?
you can do it again and I would not mind
nice to watch a good old fashioned movie no profanity no violence good old fashioned human nature
Marlon hadn’t tangoed in Paris yet.
@@aclark903or made anyone an offer they couldn’t refuse 😊
@@aclark903 or Kurtzed in Vietnam yet...
Exactly
Guess you missed the bar fight in Havana
I absolutely LOVE this movie---the chemistry was palpable, the best chemistry I think I've ever seen in any movie!
One of my favorites! Thanks for posting..
Thanks very much for uploading old time movies
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I'm on a Frank Sinatra kick lately, watched From Here To Eternity, The Joker Is Wild, Suddenly, now Guys and Dolls. The guy was a totally underrated actor, he was such a good singer that it outshone his acting skills completely.
He had great sensitivity!
Never hurts to have a horse's head placed in a studio head's bed.
I like Sinatra's self-deprecating gag in G&D - when he steps on a barbershop scale to show that he weighs a mere 120 lbs.
In "Adelaide's Lament" where she sings "the female remaining single, constantly in suspense", the on-stage lyric was "the female remaining single, just in the legal sense". They cleaned up that one!
Never knew that.
@@hudsony777 Maybe the stage production I saw ("legal sense") was a change from the original, which I am not old enough to have seen, so it's possible it's the other way round.
In "I'll Know," where Sky sings (in the stage version), "You have wished yourself a Scarsdale Galahad, the breakfast-eating Brooks-Brothers type," was changed in the film as "You have wished yourself a small-town Galahad, the breakfast-eating four-button type." To avoid offending Scarsdale residents and Brooks Brothers tailors, I suppose. Frank Loesser's lyrics are so descriptive.
Vivian Blaine was great as the endearble Miss Adelaide
Did anyone find it amazing and delightful that Jean Simmons could throw a decent punch, and hurl tableware like a major league baseball pitcher, in the Havana fight scene? Whoever coached her for that choreography did a great job. You wouldn't expect to see something like that in a 1950s production.
Yes, Jean Simmons is truly amazing in this movie. In an interview, she said her entire family was very athletic; her father was Britain's gymnast entry to the Olympics in his time. You should also find amazing her hard slap at Brando's face at the end of "I'll Know" (after the stolen kiss). I think Brando was really shaken by it, he almost forgot his next line. 😜
GREAT MOVIE, GREAT COLOUR MUSIC TO ONE'S EARS FOREVER TO REMEMBER, THANK YOU.
Took a week for this to show up on my playlist choice after wishing I could see it. Thank you Universe! Excellent writing.
Jean Simmons can sure throw a punch 👊🏽
42:04 - what a shock! It caught me totally unprepared. Didn't wait such imprudence from mister M.Brando.
When i saw this as a small child, i really believed that this movie was filmed in NYC.
i didn't realize that it was a sound stage until i was in my 20s! 😆🤣
The highlight of this movie - Guys & Dolls - was the hit number 'Woman in love' which was sung by Marlon Brando in his own voice. Commercially, the song was a chart-buster in circa 1956-57 sung by Frankie Laine and broke all records. Oh yes, it's fun to see both Marlon and Jean Simmons [ a personal fave] dance up a storm in this film..
i want to watch this movie forever
Great movie, great actors and great music
Love this movie❤️
Thanks - I've never watched the movie or the musical. It's quite a romp with really good writing nad strong performances
Love this so much ❤❤❤❤
Ty for uploading 💗
I have seen some of frank movies. They are simple movies but very very pleasant and you feel like surfing on a wave.
Frank won his title of leader of the rat pack and hollywood mafia based on this movie.
Cool, man.
Marlon Brando is the greatest actor because of his unmatched acting range. From 1950-60 he played a paraplegic in THE MEN, Stanley Kowalski in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, a Mexican revolutionary in VIVA ZAPATA, Mark Anthony in JULIUS CEASAR, a Hell's Angel, Terry Malloy in ON THE WATERFRONT, Napoleon in DESIREE, sang and danced in GUYS AND DOLLS, a Japanese man(!!!) in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, a contrite nazi in YOUNG LIONS then directed ONE EYED JACKS.
The first film I saw Marlon Brando in, which I enjoyed immensely, was Bedtime Story, with David Niven. I much prefer Brando in these types of roles when he was young.
You forgot the guitarist Val Xavier in the movie The Fugitive Kind, and Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara (1957). I thought his performance as a Japanese in 'Teahouse" was terrible. As much as i think he was a great actor, imo Montgomery Clift was better and more focused, Brando could be very focused sometimes and other times he was lazy and didn't care.
I love, love, love, love these 1950's Michael Jackson gangster clothes. ..."You been hit by, you been struck by....a smooth criminal!"..HEEEEEEEEE...........
Very interesting. It's not only a musical movie, but as much as I understood, it's a movie about the missionary. Though a bet was taken, but the sinners came to the prayer meeting and confessed their sins.
The original Sky Masterson role on Broadway was created by Robert Alda, the father of Alan Alda. It was in 1948, I think.
Yes, Marlon and Jean do their own singing. One of the things the director and composer were adamant about was vocal authenticity.
Awesome! Thanks!!
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Thks thks a million thks youtube for these wnderful movies l enjoyed them a lot😊😊😊
Absolute quality film.They sure don't make them like this anymore.
Thank you for this film!
Trevligt att få se denna film nu igen det va ett tag sen ❤❤❤nu tack från pia 190724😊
I really enjoyed watching this movie jean Simmons was lovely in this movie
Magnificent
Fantastic image, fantastic movie! From Brasil...
Wow, why they no longer shot these kinda movies?
Because they never pulled in the crowds at the box office. Oliver and Hello Dolly were the last of the two though they did OK at the Box Office they did not do great.
@@NRTSean According to Wikipedia (referencing Variety), G & D was the number one moneymaking film in 1956.
In his autobiography, "Songs My Mother Taught me," Brando says that at the Opening Night, the limousine that was taking him and Jean Simmons to the celebration on Times Sq got stuck in an enormous crowd that the car's window broke and injured a fan. He and Jean had to be physically taken out of the car and carried by police to the site. Brando likened the huge mob to what Frank Sinatra used to encounter in his "bobby-sox days," and when the Beatles came to the U.S. Brando disapproved of such adulation of celebrities.
I see now where Janet Jackson got the inspiration for her music video for the song "Alight". The music video has Cab Calloway and Cyd Charisse in it.
Glad to see you launching your new boat.
Thank you!
i skipped to 2:12:52
"(gasp) You're at it again? You're runnin' the game!" has been in my head for weeks 😆
"Nicely" done❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
So lovely ❤
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No CG, what a relief!
Heaven. Thank you.
My first time watching it I really enjoyed I now know what I've been missing dreamy
i love this song
Thank you
got sky masterson on my play i now love guys and dolls!
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Marlon Brando was GORGEOUS.
🎉🎉🎉thank you I enjoyed it 🎉🎉🎉🎉
i love this movie
HILARIOUS 💚🙏😇🙏💚 movie
Marlon Brando is excellent as ALWAYS
Marlon Brando is extremely ridiculous in this movie. Sinatra's voice in contrast to Brando's voice causes pity. 😂
@@LauLentil I agree, just imagine Frank Sinatra singing Luck Be A Lady. Marlon Brando can't sing! Jean Simmons might have acted well but she couldn't sing either. I have seen this live on stage with leads who could sing, much better!
Ditto!
MGM and Mankiewicz brought to the screen a Broadway classic that most of us would otherwise not get to see.
THE GENERATION GAP.
Despite the mostly favorable response here, naysayers alledge miscasting mostly, ignoring the splendid score, the smart dialogue, Vivian Blaine's Adelaide (!), Michael Kidd's cinematography or the MGM production values of a once popular vanishing genre.
One of Sinatra's less involved performances, but Brando and Simmons in their early confrontation convey the chemistry between their characters, as they had in 'Desirée' a year or so earlier.
Sheldon Leonard, tv legend, is featured early on with Stubby Kaye.
@@LauLentil100% agreed. I've always believed that if Dean Martin had played Sky Masterson along with Frank as Nathan, this film would have been a classic!
@@mjd4502 Sinatra could have played Sky Masterson, so Dean Martin would play Nathan Detroit. And outside of this movie, Marlon Brando would be excellent. 🤭
Marlon Brando was awesome!
As an actor yeah, as a person, not so much.
forever and ever
Jean Simmons Marlon Brando Frank Sinatra singing up a storm😊
Brando - not so much. imdb trivia states that his final vocals on tape were spliced together from many takes - lol
Brandon killed this one too.
Great acting.
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Jean Simmons starred in DESIREE which made her the only actress to do two films with Brando.
And they were a perfect match! One G&D reviewer called Jean's hard slap on Brando's face (after the stolen kiss) as "Desiree's Revenge." 🤣
Very colorful and fun film to watch. I watched this movie on Tubi weeks ago. Brando should've won an Oscar for his character in this movie (For Best Actor). 😊
Frank Sinatra is so incredible here!
Good movie 😊
How many people realise that the intro song "Can Do" is actually a Fugue? Not many, I'll be bound!
The official song’s title is “Fugue for Tinhorns”
@@SwampNymph522 Gee, h'Aint I clever. I worked it out all by myself without knowing the h'official title!
‘’Μάγκες και κούκλες’’ ο Ελληνικός τίτλος! !
15:44, Jerry Orbach in his first film role, he was 20 years old.
Nonsense! Jerry Orbach was not in this film. His first role was in "Cop Hater" 1958.
@@markblass4490 Orbach is in this film. He is the first to recognize Nathan Detroit in the barbershop scene, singing one line in the "Oldest Established," i.e., "Why, it's good old reliable Nathan..."
Frank Sinatra wanted to do the Sky Masterson part but the producers chose the hot property Marlon Brando . Sinatra had hard feelings towards Brando but did the Nathan Detroit part . The leading lady Jean Simmons was not a singer but she was pretty potent in the 1950s box office . Miss Simmons along with Elizabeth Taylor were considered for the Audrey Hepburn part in Roman Holiday . Vivian Blaine who had done movies mainly in the 1940s was recreating her Broadway role . Stubby Kaye , B S Pully and Johnny Silver were also hold overs in their original Broadway roles .
Jean Simmons was a singer, a dancer too, but not famous for that.
This has a lot of the feel of the original bway production!
Regards from Monaco
Greetings from North Wales 😁
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If I could change one thing about this musical, it would be to get rid of the girly numbers at the club. They don't add a thing, and make my skin crawl. That said, this is still one of the best musicals of all time. It was so fresh and unlike any other. Today's musicals are not musical at all for the most part. The songs are not memorable and creative like the songs in Guys and Dolls are.
I agree with you. However, as was the genre of musicals at that time, there were musical interludes in between the acts. At least the girly numbers in G&D are not as creepy as the Harem dream sequence in Oklahoma. In the junior high school version of G&D, the girly numbers afford for more participants to join in the show.
Janet Jackson's Alright video a lot of similarities I wonder if this movie was an inspiration for that video.
Caught it again. Bliss.
I'm here because I watched Robinhood channel about Technical Analysis by John Roque
How to reduce a fantastic song ? Let Brando sing it.
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