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Actor Ethan Hawke accepts the Marlon Brando Award during Stella By Starlight, The Stella Adler Studio Of Acting’s 10th Annual Fundraising Gala on May 11, 2015 in New York City. http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Ethan-Hawke-Kate-Mulgrew-and-More-Honored-at-STELLA-BY-STARLIGHT-Gala-Tonight-20150511

“Listen to Me Marlon,” based on Brando’s never-before-heard archive, will open on July 29 at Film Forum in New York and on July 31 at the Landmark in Los Angeles, then expand nationwide throughout the summer and fall. Read More: http://variety.com/…/showtime-sets-theatrical-releases-for…/

The 1926 Spanish Revival house where Marlon Brando once took residence in the Hollywood Hills sells for $3.1 million. Seen prominently in the episode of Person to Person where Edward R. Murrow interviews Brando and his father after the On the Waterfront star won his best actor Oscar in 1955. See the full Person to Person interview […]

Late-1957, with his newly released novel attracting near-universal praise from critics, Beat author Jack Kerouac aimed for the sky and wrote the following passionate letter to Marlon Brando in an effort to bring his work to the big screen. The novel in question was On the Road… Read More and see the letter: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/come-on-now-marlon-put-up-your-dukes.html?utm_content=buffer3de01&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_campaign=buffer  

Shout out to Baltimore’s WYPR radio program Midday and their appreciation of Marlon Brando last Friday on what would have been Brando’s 91st birthday. Host Dan Rodericks and his guests Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellwyn Reed challenge preconceived notions of Marlon Brando in the popular consciousness and explore some of his lesser-known (but by no means […]

On this day in 1955, “On the Waterfront” won the Academy Award for best picture of 1954, while its star, Marlon Brando won best actor.

Attention The Godfather fans in Los Angeles: The American Cinematheque will be showing The Godfather at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica March 26. Come see great movie at a great venue! www.americancinemathequecalender.com/content/the-godfather-7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjPmaneLadQ

NEW YORK (AP) — Albert Maysles, the revolutionary documentary filmmaker who helped pioneer nonfiction movies by turning a keenly observant eye on both the famous and the ordinary in films like “Gimme Shelter” and “Grey Gardens,” has died. He was 88. Read More: http://news.yahoo.com/documentary-filmmaker-albert-mayles-dies-88-172352640.html;_ylt=A0SO81TJD_pUfX0ArBNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzbmMzNW92BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDVklQNTMxXzEEc2VjA3Nj