Guys and Dolls

Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine (starring)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (director, screenwriter)
Ben Hecht (screenwriter)
Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling (book)
Frank Loesser (music)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Two vintage photographs from the 1955 film, a reference photograph of Marlon Brando and a studio still photograph featuring Brando and Frank Sinatra. Each photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso, one with cropping annotations on the verso.

Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana, where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards.

Set in New York and Havana.

From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969.

8 x 10 inches. Reference photograph Near Fine, studio still photograph Very Good plus, with pinholes to the corners and evidence of red wax pencil annotations in the margins, likely from publication.

Rosenbaum 1000.


[Book #173748]