Editing Frank Loesser (section)

==Awards and legacy==
Loesser received the 1951 [[Tony Award|Tony Award for Best Musical]] for his ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'' music and lyrics. He was nominated for the Tony Award for book, music and lyrics for ''[[The Most Happy Fella]]'' and as Best Composer for ''[[How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical)|How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Loesser Tony Awards Info |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/tonyawardspersoninfo.php?nomname=Frank%20Loesser |access-date=August 6, 2022 |website=www.broadwayworld.com}}</ref> Loesser was awarded a [[Grammy Award]] in 1962<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/frank-loesser/11848 |title=Frank Loesser - Wins* 1 Nominations* 1 |access-date=August 6, 2022 |website=www.grammy.com}}</ref> for [[Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album|Best Original Cast Show Album]] for ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying''.

Loesser is regarded as one of the more talented writers of his era, noted for writing witty lyrics and clever musical devices. He also introduced a complex artistic style that challenged shaped the compositional approach of Broadway musicals. He was also noted for using classical forms, such as [[imitative counterpoint]] ([[Fugue for Tinhorns]] in ''Guys and Dolls'').<ref name="Maiers 2009 1–3"/>

Loesser won the 1950 [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]] for "[[Baby, It's Cold Outside]]." He was nominated four more times:
: "Dolores" from ''[[Las Vegas Nights]]'' (1941)
: "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" from ''[[Thank Your Lucky Stars (film)|Thank Your Lucky Stars]]'' (1943)
: "[[I Wish I Didn't Love You So]]" from ''[[The Perils of Pauline (1947 film)|The Perils of Pauline]]'' (1947) (a hit that year for both [[Vaughn Monroe]] and the film's star [[Betty Hutton]])
: "[[Thumbelina (Frank Loesser song)|Thumbelina]]" from the movie musical ''[[Hans Christian Andersen (film)|Hans Christian Andersen]]'' (1953)

The PBS documentary ''[[Heart & Soul: The Life and Music of Frank Loesser]]'' was released in 2006.<ref>[http://www.loessermovie.com/ "Heart & Soul, The Life and Music of Frank Loesser"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130110040705/http://loessermovie.com/ |date=January 10, 2013 }} www.loessermovie.com, accessed January 11, 2013</ref>

[[42nd Street Moon]] artistic director Greg MacKellan developed ''Once in Love with Loesser'' in 2013 as one of his musical tributes dedicated to exploring and celebrating the work of some of Broadway's great songwriters. The performance was built around the three stages of Loesser's career: Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood, and Broadway. [[Jason Graae]] performed "Once in Love with Amy" and ''The King's New Clothes;'' [[Emily Skinner (actress, born 1970)|Emily Skinner]] sang Cleo's "Ooh! My Feet", and Rosabella's "[[Somebody Somewhere (1956 song)|Somebody, Somewhere]]" (from ''[[The Most Happy Fella]]''); Ashley Jarrett performed "[[If I Were a Bell]]"; and Ian Leonard provided a tongue-in-cheek rendition of "Sing a Tropical Song".<ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/some-like-it-shot_b_3498021|title = Some Like It Shot|date = June 26, 2013|access-date = September 30, 2016|first = George|last = Heymont|newspaper = [[Huffington Post]]}}</ref>

{{anchor |The evil of two Loessers}}Loesser, contrasted to his brother [[Arthur Loesser|Arthur]] (1894-1969) in a humorous wordplay on the principle of "[[Lesser of two evils principle|the lesser of two evils]]", was reportedly once referred to as "[[The evil of two lessers|the evil of two Loessers]]".  The two half-brothers died less than seven months apart in 1969.<ref name="DillonMalone2007">{{cite journal | url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/20633039| title = Obiter dicta| date =Summer 2007 |access-date=September 12, 2020 | journal = Books Ireland | publisher= Wordwell Ltd.| issue = 295 | pages = 141–143 | last = Dillon-Malone | first = Aubrey | jstor = 20633039|quote=My favourite, though, has to be Michael McDowell's comment on Gay Mitchell: 'He is the evil of two lessers' even if this witticism is culled from a comment once made even more piquantly about Frank Loesser and his brother.}} Note: [[Michael McDowell (politician)|Michael McDowell]] was comparing [[Gay Mitchell]] to his brother [[Jim Mitchell (politician)|Jim]].</ref>