She sang onscreen in her role as the missionary Sarah Brown with Marlon Brando (far left) as Sky Masterson, Frank Sinatra (third from left) as Nathan Detroit and Vivian Blaine as Miss Adelaide in Joseph L Mankiewicz's 1955 film of the stage musical Guys and Dolls. The producer, Sam Goldwyn, had wanted Grace Kelly, but Mankiewicz insisted on Simmons
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