The Curious, Provocative Mind Behind Marlon Brando’s smile
From Los Angeles NPR Station KPCC: It is possible Marlon Brando was a star for too long and became famous for being famous – simplified as a movie star, a sex symbol, a lone wolf. Author Susan Mizruchi pores over Brando’s letters, audiotapes, his writings and research to reveal a self-educated intellectual.. “I can report,” […]
Learn More About The Woman Who Refused an Oscar
Photo Credit: Stephanie Rausser In retrospect, it’s hard to tell whether Roger Moore and Liv Ullmann knew ahead of time that the 45th Academy Awards ceremony was about to get turned upside down. They certainly looked nervous as they announced that Marlon Brando had won the Oscar for best actor, for his role in Francis Ford Coppola’s The […]
Marlon Brando was an inventor!
Listen to Poncho Sanchez play Marlon Brando’s drum invention on NPR: Actor Marlon Brando was an Afro-Cuban drumming enthusiast, as well as an inventor whose lost prototypes became the stuff of urban legend. “In a nondescript storage facility in West Los Angeles sits a little-known bit of Hollywood history. It concerns the late legendary actor […]
Billy Frank Jr. Champion of tribal rights dies at age 83
“In 1964, Adams, an Assiniboine-Sioux, brought actor Marlon Brando to the Northwest to bring attention to native “fish-ins,” expecting him to fish illegally in solidarity with the tribes at Frank’s Landing near the mouth of the Nisqually. He got TV newsman Charles Kuralt to interview Mr. Frank’s father, but Brando ultimately was arrested on the […]
Hollywood’s Brooding Leading Men: From John Barrymore to Tom Hardy, an Honor Roll of Intense Actors On-Screen and Off
5 / 10 PHOTO BY ART SHAY/TIME & LIFE PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES. Was it self-loathing, or a severely allergic reaction to fame, or a toxic combination of both, that compelled the once-ultra-sultry Brando to balloon into the tent-wearer of Don Juan DeMarco? From his galvanic embodiment of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire into a studio-led career of […]
Tour The Insanely Luxurious Resort Opening On Marlon Brando’s Private Island
Soon, you’ll be able to stay on Marlon Brando’s private island. A new insanely luxurious resort, aptly-named The Brando, will open in July on the atoll of Tetiaroa in French Polynesia. Tetiaroa is made up of 12 smaller islands (called motus), with the resort located on Onetahi, the island historically known as a retreat for […]
Marlon Brando: ‘Member Him?
by Jonathan Kiefer Dead for 10 years now, Marlon Brando only just scratched the surface of the 21st century. It’s all right; in the 20th he dug so deep. He’d have turned 90 earlier this month (April 3), so the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, in conjunction with the Marlon Brando Estate, carved out a couple […]
Marlon Brando’s Godfather Transformation
Marlon Brando was 47 years old when “The Godfather” was released in March of 1972, so how was he able to turn into such a believable senior citizen to play Vito Corleone? With the help of makeup artist Dick Smith, who transformed Brando from his youthful self to the old-time gangster. To honor Brando’s birthday […]
When it Comes to Mickey Rooney, I’m With Marlon Brando: Rooney Was Underrated. Here’s Why.
By Chuck Ross – April 7th, 2014 Marlon Brando, who knew something about acting, wrote in his 1994 autobiography, “Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me”: “As I’ve observed before, acting talent alone doesn’t make an actor a star. It takes a combination of qualities: looks, personality, presence, ability. Like Tallulah Bankhead, Greta Garbo wasn’t much […]
In Photography, Cool Rules
By JOHN LELAND The thing about “cool” is that it shows itself equally in moments of distress or pleasure, driving people indifferently to greatness or stupidity. It comes from gritty streets and prices out the people who live there; it pulls couples together or cleaves them apart. And even as its meaning dissipates from overuse, […]
Exclusive first look: Matchless channels Marlon Brando
By Nick Carvell 05 March 14 We first clocked Matchless’ upcoming tribute to Marlon Brando at Jacket Required back in February – an impressive achievement considering the vastly expanded scale of the menswear fair this year. Now we’re bringing you a first look at all the pieces in the collection, each inspired by the actor’s […]
The Unbelievable Story Of Why Marlon Brando Rejected His 1973 Oscar For ‘The Godfather’
Melia Robinson Mar 2 2014, 3:00 PM 407 The man who made offers others couldn’t refuse once refused the movie industry’s heftiest honour. On March 5, 1973, Marlon Brando declined the Academy Award for Best Actor for his gut-wrenching performance as Vito Corleone in “The Godfather” — for a very unexpected reason. Here’s how it […]