page_title: Vivian Blaine
section_title: Stage
hierarchical_section_title: Vivian Blaine / Stage
caption_attribution_description: English: Vivian Blaine and Sam Levene in the Original Broadway Production of Guys and Dolls
context_page_description: Vivian Blaine was an American actress and singer, best known for originating the role of Miss Adelaide in the musical theater production of Guys and Dolls, as well as appearing in the subsequent film version, in which she co-starred with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra.
context_section_description: Following her Fox years, Blaine returned to the stage, making her Broadway debut as Miss Adelaide in the Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls in 1950. Her character Miss Adelaide has been engaged to inveterate gambler Nathan Detroit played by Sam Levene for 14 years, a condition which, according to her song "Adelaide's Lament", has given her a psychosomatic cold as well as chronic heartbreak. 
  After the show's 1,200-performance Broadway run, Vivian Blaine and Sam Levene reprised their original show stopping Broadway performances as Miss Adelaide and Nathan Detroit in the first UK production of Guys and Dolls which opened at London's West End Coliseum a few days before the 1953 Coronation; the two stars performed their roles   553 times, including a Royal Command Variety Performance for Queen Elizabeth on November 9, 1953. Vivian Blaine as Miss Adelaide, Sam Levene as Nathan Detroit and Robert Alda as Sky Masterson also recreated their original Broadway performances twice daily in a reduced version of Guys and Dolls when the first Las Vegas production opened a six-month run at the Royal Nevada, September 7, 1955, the first time a Broadway musical was performed on the strip. Vivian Blaine also recreated her role as Miss Adelaide in the film version of film in 1955.
  Blaine also appeared on Broadway in A Hatful of Rain, Say, Darling, Enter Laughing, Company, and Zorba, as well as participating in the touring companies of such musicals as Gypsy.
caption: Vivian Blaine as Miss Adelaide and Sam Levene as Nathan Detroit in the 1950 original Broadway production of Guys and Dolls.
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