July 1 of this year marks the 10th anniversary of actor Marlon Brando’s death. While most people know Brando as a leading man, not everyone knows of his wide and varied exploits beyond the screen. Here are four things you might not have known about Marlon Brando, as provided by Austin Wilkin, archivist for the […]
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It’s been ten years today since the world’s most famous Method actor died. Did we even know the guy? Consider these lesser-known facts. By Jonathan Kiefer on July 1, 2014 HE WAS IN A CHARLIE CHAPLIN MOVIE. That is, a movie directed by Chaplin. The 1967 romantic comedy A Countess from Hong Kong, also starring Sophia Loren. This was […]
Link to Photos: http://life.time.com/culture/marlon-brando-early-photos-of-a-movie-icon-in-the-making/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#1 Text from the article, as written by Ben Cosgrove, Editor of LIFE.com: The year was 1949, and 25-year-old Marlon Brando — “the brilliant brat,” as LIFE magazine called him following his astonishing work on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire — had finally answered the call of Hollywood. He was preparing for his movie debut in The […]
Illustration by Jackie Lay. Photos by Bert Reisfeld/Picture-Alliance/dpa/AP; ASSOCIATED PRESS; Mondadori/Getty TOM SHONE JUN 25 2014 Hollywood extracted entirely the wrong moral from the story of Marlon Brando. Working when the studio-contract system crumbled in the 1950s, he quickly leveraged the power he had accrued from his theatrical performances into a series of one-picture […]
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,” […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
From The Tetiaroa Society Blog: The traditional blessing of our Ecostation took place on April 24, to instill the spirit and knowledge of Tahitian demi-god Honuura. The ceremony was led by spiritual leader Teihotaata Punitai, with the support of the Committee of Elders from Te Pu Atiti’a, an association that works to preserve Tahitian culture and […]