Claim: Marlon Brando was in a film adapted from a work.

Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows . It is based on `` The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown '' and `` Blood Pressure `` two short stories by Damon Runyonand also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon storiesmost notably `` Pick the Winner '' .   The premiere on Broadway was in 1950 . It ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical . The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals , as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando , Jean Simmons , Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine .   Guys and Dolls was selected as the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . However , because of writer Abe Burrows ' troubles with the House Un-American Activities Committee -LRB- HUAC -RRB- , the Trustees of Columbia University vetoed the selection , and no Pulitzer for Drama was awarded that year .