Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical, based on a Broadway musical titled Guys and Dolls and written by Frank Loesser. His Musical in turn is based on two short stories by highly regarded writer, Damon Runyon. His stories, Blood Pressure and The Idyll of Miss Brown, were turned into a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The same choreographer that worked on the Musical, Michael Kidd, also did the production of the dances for the film.