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    “If I hadn’t been an actor, I’ve often thought I’d have become a con man and wound up in jail.”

    So writes the iconic Marlon Brando in his 1994 autobiography, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, co-written by Robert Lindsey. The smoldering star of A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, The Godfather, and Last Tango in Paris, Brando redefined what it meant to be an actor and a star.

    Yet the man behind the star is a much more slippery affair. Songs My Mother Taught Me reads in part as an apologia from a charming, brilliant, curious, deeply eccentric man who claims he used to be angry, used to be bad to women—without offering much proof of his professed transformation. 

    Brando refused to write about his wives or his eleven children, and uses pseudonyms for the romantic partners he does discuss—meaning that we don’t hear about his alleged relationships with the likes of Richard Pryor, Shelley Winters, Christian Marquand, and Ursula Andress. Though he can’t resis

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    Marlon Brando Biography

    Date of Birth:
    Apr 3, 1924Birth Place:
    Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Biography

    Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924, Marlon Brando's talent for performing developed early, as a way to distract his alcoholic mother (an actress) from the bottle. His impressions and ability to stay in character impressed his friends and family, and after his sister went to study acting in New York, her younger brother followed. A devoted lärling of Stella Adler and the Stanislavsky system, Brando worked to fully embody his roles, both psychologically and physically. The erratic behavior encouraged by the system caused many to distance themselves from the young actor, but as he developed, Brando began to vända in some revelatory performances. In 1946, Brando starred in the Broadway production of "Truckline Café," which earned him the title of "Most Promising ung Actor" bygd the New York teaterpjäs Critics. The play was also his first professional collaboration with legendary director an

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    Marlon Brando

    Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist. He is thought to be one of the best and most important actors of all time.[2] He was given many awards. He was given 2 Academy awards, 3 British Academy Film Awards, 1 Cannes Film Festival Award, 2 Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He is best known for his roles in the movies, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), The Wild One (1953), On the Waterfront (1954), The Godfather (1972), Call Bic (1973), Superman (1978), Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996). Brando died of respiratory failure from pulmonary fibrosis and congestive heart failure at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on July 1, 2004.

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    • Bain, David Haward. The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. ISBN 0-14-303526-6.
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