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October 2009

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Among connoisseurs of popular song, Frank Loesser is universally regarded as a master. Not only did he write the scores for two major Broadway musicals, Guys and Dolls (1950) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961), but he also wrote or co-wrote numerous songs that became standards after being introduced in Hollywood films, including “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” “I Don’t Want to Walk Without You,” and “On a Slow Boat to China.” In addition, Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying were both turned into hit movies, and How to Succeed won a Pulitzer Prize for drama.


About the Author

Terry Teachout,COMMENTARY's chief culture critic and the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal, is the author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, out in December from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He blogs about the arts at www.terryteachout.com.

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