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Who Was Marlon Brando?
After early promise in the s and '50s, including a legendary performance in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire, Marlon Brando's film career had more downs than up until his starring role in The Godfather.
Later, he received huge salaries for small parts. He became known for self-indulgence but was always respected for his finest work.
Early Life
Brando was born on April 3, , in Omaha, Nebraska.
Marlon brandos parents New York City: Harry N. Archived from the original on January 11, Archived from the original on May 11, November 23,Brando grew up in Illinois, and after expulsion from a military academy, he dug ditches until his father offered to finance his education. Brando moved to New York to study with acting coach Stella Adler and at Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio. Adler has often been credited as the principal inspiration in Brando's early career, and with opening the actor to great works of literature, music and theater.
While at the Actors' Studio, Brando adopted the "method approach," which emphasizes characters' motivations for actions.
He made his Broadway debut in John Van Druten's sentimental I Remember Mama (). New York theater critics voted him Broadway's Most Promising Actor for his performance in Truckline Caf (). In , he played his greatest stage role, Stanley Kowalski -- the brute who rapes his sister-in-law, the fragile Blanche du Bois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
Hollywood Bad Boy
Hollywood beckoned to Brando, and he made his motion picture debut as a paraplegic World War II veteran in The Men ().
Although he did not cooperate with the Hollywood publicity machine, he went on to play Kowalski in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire, a popular and critical success that earned four Academy Awards.
Brando's next movie, Viva Zapata! (), with a script by John Steinbeck, traces Emiliano Zapata's rise from peasant to revolutionary.
Brando followed that with Julius Caesar and then The Wild One (), in which he played a motorcycle-gang leader in all his leather-jacketed glory. Next came his Academy Award-winning role as a longshoreman fighting the system in On the Waterfront, a hard-hitting look at New York City labor unions.
During the rest of the decade, Brando's screen roles ranged from Napoleon Bonaparte in Désirée (), to Sky Masterson in 's Guys and Dolls, in which he sang and danced, to a Nazi soldier in The Young Lions ().
From to , movie exhibitors voted him one of the top 10 box-office draws in the nation.
During the s, however, his career had more downs than ups, especially after the MGM studio's disastrous remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, which failed to recoup even half of its enormous budget. Brando portrayed Fletcher Christian, Clark Gable's role in the original.
Brando's excessive self-indulgence reached a pinnacle during the filming of this movie. He was criticized for his on-set tantrums and for trying to alter the script. Off the set, he had numerous affairs, ate too much, and distanced himself from the cast and crew.
His contract for making the movie included $5, for every day the film went over its original schedule. He made $ million when all was said and done.
'The Godfather'
Brando's career was reborn in with his depiction of Mafia chieftain Don Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, a role for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor.
He turned down the Oscar, however, in protest of Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans. Brando himself did not appear at the awards show. Instead, he sent a Native American Apache named Sacheen Littlefeather (who was later determined to be an actress portraying a Native American) to decline the award on his behalf.
Later Roles
Brando proceeded the following year to the highly controversial yet highly acclaimed Last Tango in Paris, which was rated X.
Since then, Brando has received huge salaries for playing small parts in such movies as Superman () and Apocalypse Now (). Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for A Dry White Season in , Brando also appeared in the comedy The Freshman with Matthew Broderick.
In , Brando costarred in Don Juan DeMarco with Johnny Depp.
In early , Brando costarred in the poorly received The Island of Dr. Moreau.
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In , Brando starred as an aging jewel thief in pursuit of one last payoff in The Score, also starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, and Angela Bassett.
Personal Life
It has been observed that Brando has perhaps loved food and womanizing too much.
His best acting performances are roles that required him to show a constrained and displayed rage and suffering.
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Time magazine reported, "Brando had a stern, cold father and a dream-disheveled mother- both alcoholics, both sexually promiscuous-and he encompassed both their natures without resolving the conflict." Brando himself wrote in his autobiography, "If my father were alive today, I don't know what I would do.
After he died, I used to think, 'God, just give him to me alive for eight seconds because I want to break his jaw.'"
Although Brando avoids speaking in detail about his marriages, even in his autobiography, it is known that he has been married three times to three ex-actresses. He has at least 11 children.
Five of the children are with his three wives, three are with his Guatemalan housekeeper, and the other three children are from affairs. One of Brando's sons, Christian Brando, told People magazine, "The family kept changing shape. I'd sit down at the breakfast table and say, 'Who are you?'"
In , Christian was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of his sister's fiancee, Dag Drollet, and received a year sentence.
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He claimed Drollet was physically abusing his pregnant sister, Cheyenne. Christian said he struggled with Drollet and accidentally shot him in the face. Brando, in the house at the time, gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Drollet and called At Christian's trial, People reported one of Brando's comments on the witness stand, "I tried to be a good father.
I did the best I could."
Brando's daughter, Cheyenne, was a troubled young woman. In and out of drug rehabilitation centers and mental hospitals for much of her life, she lived in Tahiti with her mother Tarita (one of Brando's wives, whom he met on the set of Mutiny on the Bounty).
Marlon brando genealogy Music [ edit ]. Mario Puzo. Brando had also been diagnosed with liver cancer , as well as simultaneously suffering from congestive heart failure. Daytona Beach Morning Star.People reported in that Cheyenne said of Brando, "I have come to despise my father for the way he ignored me as a child."
After Drollet's death, Cheyenne became even more reclusive and depressed. A judge ruled that she was too depressed to raise her child and gave custody of the boy to her mother, Tarita.
Cheyenne took a leave from a mental hospital on Easter Sunday in to visit her family. At her mother's home that day, Cheyenne, who had attempted suicide before, hanged herself.
Death and Legacy
Brando's years of self-indulgence are visible, as he weighed well over pounds in the mids. The actor died of pulmonary fibrosis in a Los Angeles hospital in at the age of But to judge Brando by his appearance and dismiss his work because of his later, less significant acting jobs, however, would be a mistake.
His performance in A Streetcar Named Desire brought audiences to their knees, and his range of roles is a testament to his capability to explore many aspects of the human psyche.
- Name: Marlon Brando
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- Birth date: April 3,
- Birth State: Nebraska
- Birth City: Omaha
- Birth Country: United States
- Gender: Male
- Best Known For: Legendary screen presence Marlon Brando performed for more than 50 years and is famous for such films as 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Godfather.'
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- Death date: July 1,
- Death State: California
- Death City: Los Angeles
- Death Country: United States
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