The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown
1933 short story by Damon Runyon
"The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" is a short story by Damon Runyon telling of the improbable — but eventually triumphant — love between an inveterate gambler (Sky Masterson) and a missionary girl (the Miss Sarah Brown of the title). It was the basis for the musical Guys and Dolls, with a similar plot, but with many twists added before the lovers are reunited and live happily ever after. It was first published in Collier's Weekly in 1933.[1] In 1949, it was dramatized on radio as part of a program titled Damon Runyon Theatre.[2]
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Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows's Guys and Dolls (1950)
- Damon Runyon's "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure"
- Guys and Dolls (1955 film)
- "A Bushel and a Peck"
- "Adelaide's Lament"
- "Fugue for Tinhorns"
- "If I Were a Bell"
- "I've Never Been in Love Before"
- "Luck Be a Lady"
- "More I Cannot Wish You"
- "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat"
- "A Woman in Love" (film only)
- Guys and Dolls Like Vibes (1958)
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