The Godfather
1972
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Jul 2, 2004 · July 2, 2004. Marlon Brando, the rebellious prodigy who electrified a generation and forever transformed the art of screen acting, yet whose erratic career, obstinate eccentricities and recurring ...
Jul 25, 2015 · The Story of the Rise and Fall of Marlon Brando, One of the Greatest Actors to Have Ever Lived. John H. Foote. July 25, 2015. Several years ago while lecturing a large group of film students on the cinema of the fifties, the subject of Marlon Brando came up. One of the young men put their had up and asked if he was the actor in The Island of Dr ...
Jul 2, 2004 · Marlon Brando – seen by some as the greatest movie actor of the last half century, and by nearly everyone as a defiant public figure who embraced causes with intense passion and as a steadfastly ...
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Brando died of lung failure at the UCLA Medical Centre, according to a hospital spokeswoman. His agents, citing Brando's long-held desire for privacy, declined to give further details. With his broken nose and maverick persona, Brando perfected a raw, naturalistic style of acting that was at once menacing and tender. He came to define a post-war Am...
Brando was born on April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of a travelling salesman and an actress who coached a local drama group. He was sent to a Minnesota military academy but was soon expelled. He headed to New York, where his two sisters were studying art and drama. There he studied acting with famed teacher Stella Adler and the Actors' St...
Brando, who chafed at having to memorise dialogue, wrote in his 1994 autobiography that he improvised his lines in that famous scene and later relied on cue-cards. Brando was notorious for his out-sized appetites for both women and food, once saying: "I've had far too many affairs to think of myself as a normal, rational man." He consumed ice cream...
Christian Brando, his son by his first wife, Welsh actress Anna Kashfi, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 1990 murder of his half-sister Cheyenne's boyfriend. Cheyenne later killed herself, in 1995, at the age of 25. Brando, who was paid a then-staggering $US14 million for his walk-on performance in 1978's Superman, remained enmeshed in l...
Jul 1, 2016 · The Godfather is no more. Marlon Brando, the rebel who revolutionized American acting and won two Oscars playing a mixed-up boxer in “On the Waterfront” and Mafia don Vito Corleone in “The ...
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Jul 2, 2004 · LOS ANGELES (AP) - Marlon Brando, who revolutionized American acting with his Method performances in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront" and went on to create the iconic character ...
Jul 3, 2004 · It can be no surprise that, at the age of 80, Marlon Brando is dead. Rather, it must speak to his will and need that he lived so long, so out of shape and humour. And he was also so resentful of ...
