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,” […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]