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This is from The Ed Sullivan Show for October 9, 1955 — which, incidentally, was called Toast of the Town until September of '55. Ed takes us on the set of the movie version of Guys & Dolls, which I think was a good movie but not a great movie. Did I ever tell you what I think would have made it a great movie? Frank Sinatra as Sky Masterson instead of him playing Nathan Detroit…Phil Silvers as Nathan Detroit…and no new songs written for the film. Oh — and I also think they should have sprung for more extras because New York looks like a ghost town in many scenes. One of these days, I'll have to go back in time and tell Samuel Goldwyn so he would have made the movie right…