That Brando sang Luck Be a Lady while the man who was born to sing it stood next to him watching is unbelievable 🤣

@marietta1335

10 ай бұрын

Frank Sinatra is such a great sport in an earlier scene: When he steps on a barbershop scale to show he weighs a mere 125 lbs.

Always loved the movie, for decades. :) I played Sarah Brown in my high school musical. It was just so much fun! :)

I've never seen the movie, but I'm more interested now. And Ed Sullivan actually said "Dig these glamourous kittens...". I was surprised both to hear "dig" being used that way in 1955 and also by Sullivan.

Brando was excellent in the role. Who cares if he could sing or not. He was an actor at the end of the day. Sinatra could sing but couldnt act.

One of the Broadway-to-Hollywood transfers that Broadway loves to hate, but it's always been one of my favorites. It's been called a flop, but it was Sam Goldwyn's second highest grossing movie (after "The Best Years of Our Lives"). How great to hear Frank Loesser defending the non-musical stars. See the movie if you haven't.

Such a quaint time

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The same year Disneyland opened. 🙂

I 💖 Marlon Brando! 😍🔥😱🥵

In Guys and Dolls Ed Sullivan was featured in the trailer as the narrator😀👍🏿

I’ve never seen this before

Samuel Goldwyn(August 17,1879-January 31,1974)

Marlon Brando says " I lika hang out next to a semi pretty lady while an old dude plays sub par piano". Thats the kind of thing people really got off on in those days.

@marietta1335

10 ай бұрын

Jean Simmons was not just "semi-pretty." Marlon Brando, in his autobiography, calls her "beautiful" and "experienced" (meaning accomplished). "Unfortunately," he writes, "she was married to Stewart Granger, the great white hunter." Hm. I wonder why he thought it was unfortunate that she was married.

@franciscodelapaz-om4vb

2 ай бұрын

​@@marietta1335 maybe he was in love with her

When Hollywood was respectable and when Actors and Actresses were more dedicated to their craft then they were to money.....

@edufau815

Жыл бұрын

I'd prefer to say that Hollywood was always Hollywood...for better and for worse...and the money was always flowing...Paying a million 1955 dollars in royalties was a generous payment... and no one can say that the stars at that time didn't charge fabulous rates, considering that they were basically the ones who brought audiences to movie theaters... and they knew it, for this reason they were also demanding in front of the big American studios...

@TheMidnightModder

Жыл бұрын

Lies. Even back then, people like James Dean were suckin' rooster for jobs and roles. Sodom and Gomorrah was "back in the day" too. The world has never been peachy.

Their singing their songs and whiping their tampons around like Indiana Jones fighting a real threat, and his only weapon was a whip. That's why we have the twist.

It seems that Frank Sinatra, the third big casting star, had no filming that day...

@jasonplatt2228

Жыл бұрын

Frank Sinatra was very upset about not getting Marlin Brando's part in the film.

@edufau815

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonplatt2228 It's probably what explains why he didn't show up with Ed that day...

@marietta1335

10 ай бұрын

@@jasonplatt2228 Frank Sinatra did very well as Nathan Detroit, although Frank Loesser wanted him to be more outrageous, more like Nathan Lane on stage. Sinatra insisted on doing it his way, and did great. He sparkled as he sang, "Ever-loving Adelaide."

@christienelson1437

7 ай бұрын

Sinatra was very fortunate that he was cast as the love struck gambler for the role showed off his acting as well as singing chops. He really shined in Guys and Dolls and role made him more lovable than he had ever been.

Sinatra was an excellent actor, not just in the ‘50s but from the very start when his naturalness often made Gene Kelly seem forced. Unfortunately it was Frank who forced the comedy in Guys and Dolls. I suspect he was so jealous of Brando for getting the part he wanted that Sinatra gave perhaps his worst screen performance, while Brando I think was terrific, even in the patched together singing. That said, don’t you think the perfect Sky Masterson would have been Dean Martin? Dino agreed. But when the film was made he was just considered Jerry’s straight man. Thanks for this clip.

its gonna to be a really biggg shoe

Very bad casting Brando was all wrong Simmons a bit better Vivian Blaine was the only one from the show and today her number looks dated

@marietta1335

10 ай бұрын

Brando was perfect as Sky Masterson. He was young (Masterson was 30 in the original Damon Runyon story; Brando was 31 in the film) Sinatra was 40, too old for the role.) As Sky, one's got to be young, good-looking and able to haul off a drunken Jean Simmons on his shoulders to evade the police. Brando did just that. Sinatra would be too svelte and too elegant for that kind of thing.