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Frank Loesser

Shows · Frank Loesser

ComposerLyricistBook Writer 1910–1969

Brilliant songwriter who wrote words and music for Guys and Dolls.

Also credited on9 works

Guys and Dolls
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The Most Happy Fella
Where’s Charley?
Greenwillow
The Most Happy Fella (1992 Revival)
Guys and Dolls (1992 Revival)
How to Succeed... (2011 Revival)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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In the literature8 passages

  • The film musical Hans Christian Andersen also raised similar hackles in Denmark, even though screenwriter Moss Hart , composer-lyricist Frank Loesser and producer Samuel Goldwyn made no pretentions that this was a biography. Its star Danny Kaye told a Copenhagen press conference that the film was “just another fairy tale, an entertaining…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • [249] “Never Will I Marry”, from Greenwillow , music and lyrics by Frank Loesser , © Frank Music Corp.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • 156 William Schuman (1910–92), American composer. He formed a dance band while still in high school and was soon collaborating with Frank Loesser, a neighbor who was also at the start of his career (Loesser's first publication, In Love With A Memory of You , has music by William Schuman. With typical modesty Schuman later said “Frank Loes…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • • Thomas L. Riis has added considerably to our knowledge of Guys and Dolls and The Most Happy Fella in his recent book on Frank Loesser. 15ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Acute manifestations of the latter conflict have been attributed to the careers of Gershwin, Rodgers, Weill, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, and Sondheim. The former issue is embodied in (but by no means confined to) the differences between the Rodgers and Hart and the Rodgers and Hammerstein shows; the career of Porter, who, after a st…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Frank Loesser. © AL HIRSCHFELD. Reproduced by arrangement with Hirschfeld’s exclusive representative, the MARGO FEIDEN GALLERIES LTD., NEW YORK. WWW.ALHIRSCHFELD.COMebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt

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