Biography
Frank Loesser was born in 1910 in New York City and is among the most versatile composers and lyricists of American music theatre. Unlike many of his colleagues, he usually wrote both music AND lyrics himself. He first became known as a songwriter in Hollywood (including "Baby, It's Cold Outside", Academy Award 1949) before creating one of the greatest successes in musical history with the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls (1950). His musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1962 — one of the rare honours of its kind for a musical. Loesser died in 1969 in New York.
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