Personal Life
Loesser divorced his first wife, Lynn, in 1957. They had two children together: John Loesser and Susan Loesser, an author who wrote her father's biography A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter (1993, 2000).
He married his second wife Jo Sullivan (born Elizabeth Josephine Sullivan) on April 29, 1959. Loesser was introduced to Jo by his first wife Lynn. Jo Sullivan had played a lead in The Most Happy Fella. They had two children, Hannah and Emily. Emily is a performer who is married to Don Stephenson.
Loesser died of lung cancer at age 59 in New York City.
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