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Earlier that year, Eaton had married a former tavern maid with a supposedly lurid past. Brando needed millions to climb his way out of debt, and he needed to kick his drug habit to maintain visitation rights with his children.
He promised Marchak he would limit himself to one Valium a day, and he agreed to make three pictures—but only if the parts required no more than three weeks of shooting. To keep track of potential roles, she subscribed to the Hollywood Reporter.
Brando found the magazine in her office and went ballistic. Marchak left the house and stayed away for days, waiting for Brando to cool down. One morning, while she was reading the magazine that had driven her boss into a frenzy, she saw that Paramount was still looking for an actor to play the godfather. When Brando finally called her and asked her to return, she went straight to the mail that had piled up in her absence.
Marchak took the book to Brando. He tossed it back to her. Marchak took the book home and read it over the weekend. Her best chance was to appeal to the weak spot he shared with virtually every Hollywood actor: professional jealousy.
Every time she heard of another actor being mentioned for the part of Vito Corleone, no matter how implausible, she would nonchalantly mention it to Brando. He listened in annoyance to the growing list of rivals being considered by Paramount, but ultimately ignored her. Brando never mentioned it to her, but she knew he had read the letter because she noticed it had been moved. He surprised her by bringing it up, unprompted.
Marchak had one more card to play. She casually informed Brando of the news. From the moment he was hired as director, Coppola had two actors in mind for the leading role. At forty-seven, Brando might have seemed too young to play an aging Mafia don. Olivier, at sixty-four, was old enough, but his proper British persona might make him a tough sell as an Italian American crime boss. Coppola, who had suffered from epilepsy as a teenager, resorted to cheap theatrics: He fell to the floor in convulsions and pretended to have a fit.
At least let me pursue it. He dismissed the likes of Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable , claiming they were always the same in each movie. However, Brando did acknowledge and respect Paul Muni and James Cagney for their naturalistic approach to acting.
Only made one appearance on live TV, after Brando felt that a technical hitch hampered his performance during the broadcast. Credited Stella Adler with being the one who taught Brando everything he would know about acting. By contrast, the actor didn't like Lee Strasberg and claimed to have received no guidance at all.
Brando admitted that the reason he chose not to perform in the theatre again, was because he had concerns he would be psychologically exhausting himself in acting the same character day after day. As an actor, he felt that cinema was the only medium for him to display any kind of range. Before joining his older sister in New York during the s, Brando confessed to having no idea what else to do with his life.
Rated Karl Malden as one of the finest actors he had ever worked with. Suffered a broken nose during a performance of "A Streetcar Named Desire. Brando's success as an actor did little to heal any wounds between he and his father. Even though he kept Brando senior on the payroll, he still had as little contact with him as possible.
When Brando arrived in Hollywood, he refused to abide by anyone's terms except his own. Developed a reputation as a prankster whilst beginning his acting career in New York. Brando would relate bogus information to those involved in advertising by saying he had been born and raised in Calcutta.
For years, it has been documented that Marlon Brando stood at 5 ft 9 inches. However, the actor wore lifts on his shoes for most of his films. His actual height is 5 ft 7 inches. He used to imitate the sounds made by various animals from nearby fields, during his childhood. As his interest in acting declined, Brando began to focus his attention of civil rights causes. Claimed to have memorized hundreds of songs from various genres, usually after hearing a song just once.
Various biographers believe that Brando's indifferent attitude to acting, began with the passing of his mother. Close associates reckon the actor wasn't quite the same person again after this tragedy.
For his appearance in The Formula , Brando insisted upon designing his character's look. Had an intense dislike for being involved in any publicity for his films.
Alumnus of Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Was heavily criticized throughout his career, for refusing to act in the theatre after becoming successful in movies. On a film set, Brando insisted that the director be open and straight with him at all times.
If the opposite was proven to be the case, then Brando admitted that he would deliberately become difficult to work with. Credited Elia Kazan as one of the few directors who could successfully communicate with actors during a production.
Described himself as having a solitary childhood, rarely inviting anyone to the family home. Fellow actor Rod Steiger had a falling out with Brando, following the filming of the taxi scene in On the Waterfront However, the two men did communicate with each other about 40 years later.
Initally, Brando was joining his sister in New York without knowing what to do for a job, before deciding on a career in acting. Although Brando enjoyed being directed by the likes of Elia Kazan , he hated working with directors like John Huston and Charles Chaplin. Was neighbors with Jack Nicholson for many years, although they seldom socialized.
When Brando studied acting under Stella Adler, she was the first person who showed faith in his potential. Before choosing a career in acting, Brando was nearly resigned to a life of digging ditches for a living.
During his theatre career, Brando was approached by Hollywood talent scouts with attractive offers. However, the actor refused to be tied down to the standard seven year contract. The actor embraced the lifestyle of being a free spirit during his time in New York during the late s. Apart from the intrusion on his privacy by the press, another intense dislike Brando had for fame was being pursued by fans for autographs. He only directed one film and that was 'One Eyed Jacks' in which he also starred.
Before being cast as Stanley Kowalski in the Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in , Brando had been keeping a low profile within New York and hadn't worked as an actor for several months. Had the dubious distinction of being the most difficult actor to work with in Hollywood. Was criticized by fellow "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, for allegedly cashing in on his own notoriety.
The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalised, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much. I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass. I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive.
Really, it's like a kind of armour because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out. If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for.
But if you're unsuccessful, it's worse than having a skin disease. He never wondered, he never doubted. His ego was very secure. And he had the kind of brutal aggressiveness that I hate. I'm afraid of it. I detest the character. I don't want to spread the peanut butter of my personality on the mouldy bread of the commercial press. The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. I put on some makeup, stuffed Kleenex in my cheeks and worked out the characterization first in front of a mirror, then on a television monitor.
After working on it, I decided I could create a characterization that would support the story. The people at Paramount saw the footage and liked it, and that's how I became the Godfather. They say, "What did you do while you took time out? But the fact is, making movies is time out for me because the rest, the nearly complete whole, is what's real for me.
I'm not an actor and haven't been for years. I'm a human being - hopefully a concerned and somewhat intelligent one - who occasionally acts. Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse.
It's a bum's life. Quitting acting is a sign of maturity. Even today I can't pay a check in Little Italy. It was an ass-breaker. You work yourself to death. You're the first one up in the morning I mean, we shot that thing [ One-Eyed Jacks ] on the run, you know.
You make up the dialog the scene before, improvising, and your brain is going crazy. I don't like to think that way. Everybody has their own value in different ways, and I don't like to think who's the best at this. I mean, what's the point of it?
I've made all the money I need to make. I won a couple of Academy Awards if I ever cared about that. I've been nominated I don't know how many times and I'm in a position of respect and standing in my craft as an actor in this country. So what the hell, I don't need to gild the lily.
I don't think ever in my life that so many people were so directly responsible for my being so very, very happy. If the vacuum formed by Dr. He had to be done away with. The American government couldn't let him live. If 23 million blacks found a charismatic leader like he was, they would have followed him. The powers that be couldn't accept that. It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
It seems to me hilarious that our government put the face of Elvis Presley on a postage stamp after he died from an overdose of drugs. His fans don't mention that because they don't want to give up their myths. They ignore the fact that he was a drug addict and claim he invented rock 'n' roll when in fact he took it from black culture; they had been singing that way for years before he came along, copied them and became a star.
I'm one of those people who believes that if I'm very good in this life I'll go to France when I die. Even today, I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but it is troubling. A movie that I was in, called On the Waterfront : there was a scene in a taxicab, where I turn to my brother, who's come to turn me over to the gangsters, and I lament to him that he never looked after me, he never gave me a chance, that I could have been a contender, I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum And people often spoke about that, "Oh, my God, what a wonderful scene, Marlon, blah blah blah blah blah.
The situation was wonderful. Everybody feels like he could have been a contender, he could have been somebody, everybody feels as though he's partly bum, some part of him.
He is not fulfilled and he could have done better, he could have been better. Everybody feels a sense of loss about something. So that was what touched people. It wasn't the scene itself. There are other scenes where you'll find actors being expert, but since the audience can't clearly identify with them, they just pass unnoticed.
Wonderful scenes never get mentioned, only those scenes that affect people. Most people want those fantasies of those who are worthy of our hate - we get rid of a lot of anger that way; and of those who are worthy of our idolatry. Whether it's Farrah Fawcett or somebody else, it doesn't make a difference. They're easily replaceable units, pick 'em out like a card file. Johnnie Ray enjoyed that kind of hysterical popularity, celebration, and then suddenly he wasn't there anymore. The Beatles are now nobody in particular.
Once they set screaming crowds running after them, they ran in fear of their lives, they had special tunnels for them. They can walk almost anyplace now. Because the fantasy is gone. Elvis Presley - bloated, over the hill, adolescent entertainer, suddenly drawing people into Las Vegas - had nothing to do with excellence, just myth. It's convenient for people to believe that something is wonderful, therefore they're wonderful. If Wally [ Wally Cox ] had been a woman, I would have married him and we would have lived happily ever after.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money. Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
This is a false world. It's been a struggle to try to preserve my sanity and sense of reality taken away by success. I have to fight hard to preserve that sense of reality so as to bring up my children. I always enjoyed watching John Wayne , but it never occurred to me until I spoke with Indians how corrosive and damaging and destructive his movies were - most Hollywood movies were.
You can't even get mad at it; it's so insane that there's just nothing to say about it. He would be, according to his point of view, someone not disposed to returning any of the colonial possessions in Africa or Asia to their rightful owners.
He would be sharing a perspective with B. Vorster if he were in South Africa. He would be on the side of Ian Smith. He would have shot down Gandhi [ Mohandas K. Gandhi ], called him a rabble rouser. The only freedom fighters he would recognize would be those who were fighting Communists; if they were fighting to get out from under colonial rule, he'd call them terrorists. The Indians today he'd call agitators, terrorists, who knows?
If John Wayne ran for President, he would get a great following I think he's been enormously instrumental in perpetuating this view of the Indian as a savage, ferocious, destructive force. He's made us believe things about the Indian that were never true and perpetuated the myth about how wonderful the frontiersmen were and how decent and honorable we all were.
Everybody ought not to turn his back on the phenomenon of hatred in whatever form it takes. We have to find out what the anatomy of hatred is before we can understand it. We have to make some attempt to put it into some understandable form. Any kind of group hatred is extremely dangerous and much more volatile than individual hatred. Heinous crimes are committed by groups and it's all done, of course, in the name of right, justice.
It's John Wayne. It's the way he thinks. All the crimes committed against Indians are not considered crimes by John Wayne. I don't see anybody as evil. When you start seeing people as evil, you're in trouble. The thing that's going to save us is understanding.
Just to dispense with them as evil is not enough, because it doesn't bring you understanding. You have to see them for what they are. You have to examine John Wayne.
He's not a bad person. Who among us is going to say he's a bad man? He feels justified for what he does. The damage that he does he doesn't consider damage, he thinks it's an honest presentation of the facts. Three or four times, I've pulled a gun on somebody. I had a problem after Charles Manson , deciding to get a gun.
But I didn't want somebody coming in my house and committing mayhem. The Hillside Strangler victims - one of the girls was found in back of my Los Angeles house.
My next-door neighbor was murdered, strangled in the bathroom. Mulholland Drive is full of crazy people. We have nuts coming up and down all the time. Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people think about me.
But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing. I know I'm not an easy person to get along with, I'm no walk in the park.
Superduper patriots like John Ford could never say that the American government was at fault. He made the evil cavalry captain a foreigner. John Ford had him speak with a thick accent, you didn't know what he was, but you knew he didn't represent Mom's apple pie.
You're not going to call The Rolling Stones artists. I hate rock 'n' roll. It's ugly. I liked it when the blacks had it in Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Humphrey Bogart played himself in every movie. Clark Gable always played Clark Gable. He ought to get away from this rather nervous character that he's played since Midnight Cowboy Then we'd really be able to see that he's a complete actor. The good directors that I've worked with will say I'm a good guy. The other fellows will say I'm a bad guy. She had been beaten down, but had a strong emotional intelligence -- a keen intuition for the feelings of others, the most refined type of intelligence.
We had an affair and saw each other intermittently until she died in It's been speculated that she had a secret rendezvous with [ Robert F. Kennedy ] that week and was distraught because he wanted to end an affair between them. But she didn't seem depressed to me, and I don't think that if she was sleeping with him at the time she would have invited me over for dinner. I'm sure she didn't commit suicide.
I have always believed that she was murdered. At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk. Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died?
Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: "How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty Most New York and Beverly Hills psychoanalysts are a little crazy themselves, as well as highly motivated to separate patients from their money while making their emotional problems worse.
Some people worshipped him, but I never knew why. I bumped into Marilyn Monroe at a party. While other people drank and danced, she sat by herself in a corner almost unnoticed, playing the piano. If given the choice between Kenneth Branagh 's production of Henry V or Arnold Schwarzenegger 's The Terminator , there's hardly a question of where most television dials would be turned.
If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.
When I saw The Godfather the first time, it made me sick; all I could see were my mistakes and I hated it. But years later, when I saw it on television from a different perspective, I decided it was a pretty good film. I never meant anything more in my life. I had a great deal of respect for Don Corleone; I saw him as a man of substance, tradition, dignity, refinement, a man of unerring instinct who just happened to live in a violent world and who had to protect himself and his family in this environment.
I saw him as a decent person regardless of what he had to do, as a man who believed in family values and was shaped by events just like the rest of us. On The Godfather , I had signs and cue cards everywhere -- on my shirt sleeves, on a watermelon and glued to the scenery. Not memorizing lines increased the illusion of reality and spontaneity.
News is business. And, uh, people sell news, and unfortunately people in my position are in the public eye, are sellable commodities, but they're not any different than Kleenex or Dial Soap or anything else. And uh, so if we find something out that's about your sex life, or something you do with your fingernails after you cut them off, if you smoke the grime from your navel, then That's important But anyway, it doesn't matter.
Because, finally, you know I've found that people really don't believe all the nonsense they read. And they look at you when they meet you, and wonder if it's true, but they finally make a decision based on what their experience with you personally is. The two clashed over how the very overweight actor would appear on screen, and Brando succeeded in appearing in dark scenes that did not reveal the extent of his weight gain.
Cheyenne was eight months pregnant and had claimed—falsely—that Drollet was physically abusing her. She took her own life five years later at age Christian served five years in prison for manslaughter, and he died of pneumonia at age 49 in In old age , Brando suffered from diabetes, which caused his eyesight to fail, and from liver cancer. He died on July 1, , of respiratory and heart ailments. Brando was cremated , and he has two final resting places.
His family members scattered his ashes in Tahiti and in Death Valley, California. You may also like: Can you answer these real 'Jeopardy!
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