I say bull to that because he then proceeded to give a superb, near improvised performance as a warrior beaten by war, tired of fighting an enemy he knows he cannot beat.
Coppola gave him a God-like presence by shooting him in near darkness, so we see flashes of him before we finally see him. Some critics griped but I challenge them, who could have played that role and brought to it what Brando did?
No one. This was his last extraordinary performance, for which he deserved an Oscar nomination. Challenged, almost dared by John Houseman to portray Marc Anthony in a film version of Julius Caesar, to be populated with British Shakespearean actors, Brando fearlessly accepted. He then proceeded to give the definitive version of Anthony, stunning critics, and audiences, shocking everyone but his fellow actors.
He then takes command of the funeral, turning the crowd against Brutus and the murderers, gently, wisely with his passionate oration. Brando is superb as a cunning, smart warrior who knows exactly what to say and when to say it. His command of iambic pentameter, Shakespeare speak was perfection, crisp, fine diction. And every British actor involved sung his praises. The first time we see him it is alarming. Old, holding a cat, under those wrinkles and with the jutting jaw of a bulldog is Brando.
Listening to the Undertaker telling him his horrifying story about his daughter, he betrays nothing. We know it is Brando because of the sheer force of his presence, those eyes and that voice, disguised but still, underneath that raspy delivery unmistakably Brando.
He gives the character a force, a dark power that only a great actor would do. How does he do this? By portraying Vito as just a father, a husband, a grandpa, and businessman to all who know him. But behind closed doors, with those within the inner circles of power, he is cunning, ruthless, and understands when he orders murder, it is never personal, just business. Anyone who ever portrays Stanley in this Tennessee Williams play does so in the very long shadow of Brando, who created the role on stage, and repeated that performance on film.
Raw, untamed, Stanley is uncouth, even vulgar, but adores his wife who loves him with equal abandon. They have Heat, meaning raw sex appeal with each other and all but set the screen afire. He is a brute in the film, who does not suffer fools, and dislikes being made one. When his sister in law arrives, hiding from her past, lying, filling her sisters head with pretense, he sees it and squashes it.
He does indeed violate her, emotionally destroying her, but in losing Stella, was the engineer of his own ruin. The moment he stalked the stage as Stanley, the art of acting was, for all actors, altered. Film acting was forever changed after seeing him portray Stanley, suddenly realism was all that mattered to any actor. Elia Kazan directed this powerful study of corruption on the New Jersey docks, with Brando as Terry, a former fighter who threw a fight for the mob, unknowingly tossing away his career.
Never realizing it was his brother who betrayed him, there is a slow dawning through the film, as he realizes he is being used by the mob. It is the last time Terry sees his brother alive, the next, he lifts him, dead, off a meat hook, and gently, lovingly cradles him.
Brando earned his first of two Oscars for his role as Terry, a washed-up boxer who works on the docks with his brother Charley Rod Steiger , eventually running afoul of crooked union boss Johnny Friendly Lee J.
If things had worked out differently, Stanley Kubrick and Brando would have made a movie together. I was just sort of playing wingman for Brando, to see that nobody shot him down.
Not that he was fully confident behind the camera. Brando played Christian, the noble first officer who must help bring down the tyrannical Bligh Trevor Howard. Mutiny was in the works for about three years — a massive amount of time for that period — and all the signs of a disaster were looming. Brando, had also ballooned, from to pounds, the first occurrence of a problem that would plague him for the rest of his life.
Nearly everyone blamed Mr. The formerly brilliant actor looked lost and disinterested — and would for years afterward. The Godfather proved to be a memorable passing of the torch. Are you kidding me. He is absolutely brilliant in Julius Caesar. Of course he can contend with his peers having Julius Caesar as his 6th best performance. Brando is genius in that one but after that I have to admit it starts to get a little shaky.
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Eastwood maybe? Thomas Locke July 1, at pm - Reply. Drake July 2, at am - Reply. Thomas Locke- thanks for sharing. I need to read a Brando biography. A genius. KidCharlemagne August 2, at pm - Reply. Janith July 7, at am - Reply. In any normal film Dad would have been the heavy, but Brando believed that no one was innately evil, that it was a matter of an individual responding to, and being molded by, one's environment. It was not a black-and-white world, Brando felt, but a gray world in which once-decent people could do horrible things.
Shaw denounced Brando's performance, but audiences obviously disagreed, as the film was a major hit. It would be the last hit movie Brando would have for more than a decade. A film essentially is "made" in the editing room, and Brando found cutting to be a terribly boring process, which was why the studio eventually took the film away from him. Despite his proved talent in handling actors and a large production, Brando never again directed another film, though he would claim that all actors essentially direct themselves during the shooting of a picture.
Critics and audiences waiting for another incendiary display from Brando in a Williams work were disappointed when the renamed The Fugitive Kind finally released.
This was followed by the so-so box-office reception of One-Eyed Jacks in and then by a failure of a more monumental kind: Mutiny on the Bounty , a remake of the famed film. Brando signed on to Mutiny on the Bounty after turning down the lead in the David Lean classic Lawrence of Arabia because he didn't want to spend a year in the desert riding around on a camel.
During principal photography, highly respected director Carol Reed an eventual Academy Award winner was fired, and his replacement, two-time Oscar winner Lewis Milestone , was shunted aside by Brando as Marlon basically took over the direction of the film himself.
The long shoot became so notorious that President John F. Kennedy asked director Billy Wilder at a cocktail party not "when" but "if" the "Bounty" shoot would ever be over. Brando and Taylor, whose Cleopatra nearly bankrupted 20th Century-Fox due to its huge cost overruns its final budget was more than twice that of Brando's Mutiny on the Bounty , were pilloried by the show business press for being the epitome of the pampered, self-indulgent stars who were ruining the industry.
Seeking scapegoats, the Hollywood press conveniently ignored the financial pressures on the studios. The studios had been hurt by television and by the antitrust-mandated divestiture of their movie theater chains, causing a large outflow of production to Italy and other countries in the s and s in order to lower costs. The studio bosses, seeking to replicate such blockbuster hits as the remakes of The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur , were the real culprits behind the losses generated by large-budgeted films that found it impossible to recoup their costs despite long lines at the box office.
While Elizabeth Taylor, receiving the unwanted gift of reams of publicity from her adulterous romance with Cleopatra co-star Richard Burton , remained hot until the tanking of her own Tennessee Williams-renamed debacle Boom! The industry had grown tired of Brando and his idiosyncrasies, though he continued to be offered prestige projects up through By the time Brando began making the anti-colonialist picture Burn! The rap on Brando in the s was that a great talent had ruined his potential to be America's answer to Laurence Olivier , as his friend William Redfield limned the dilemma in his book "Letters from an Actor" , a memoir about Redfield's appearance in Burton's theatrical production of "Hamlet.
Actors and critics had yearned for an American response to the high-acting style of the Brits, and while Method actors such as Rod Steiger tried to create an American style, they were hampered in their quest, as their king was lost in a wasteland of Hollywood movies that were beneath his talent.
Many of his early supporters now turned on him, claiming he was a crass sellout. Despite evidence in such films as The Appaloosa and Reflections in a Golden Eye that Brando was in fact doing some of the best acting of his life, critics, perhaps with an eye on the box office, slammed him for failing to live up to, and nurture, his great gift. Brando's political activism, starting in the early s with his championing of Native Americans' rights, followed by his participation in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's March on Washington in , and followed by his appearance at a Black Panther rally in , did not win him many admirers in the establishment.
In fact, there was a de facto embargo on Brando films in the recently segregated officially, at least southeastern US in the s. Southern exhibitors simply would not book his films, and producers took notice. After , Brando would not work for three years. Pauline Kael wrote of Brando that he was Fortune's fool. She drew a parallel with the latter career of John Barrymore , a similarly gifted thespian with talents as prodigious, who seemingly threw them away.
Brando, like the late-career Barrymore, had become a great ham, evidenced by his turn as the faux Indian guru in the egregious Candy , seemingly because the material was so beneath his talent. Most observers of Brando in the s believed that he needed to be reunited with his old mentor Elia Kazan , a relationship that had soured due to Kazan's friendly testimony naming names before the notorious House un-American Activities Committee.
Perhaps Brando believed this, too, as he originally accepted an offer to appear as the star of Kazan's film adaptation of his own novel, The Arrangement However, after the assassination of Martin Luther King , Brando backed out of the film, telling Kazan that he could not appear in a Hollywood film after this tragedy. Also reportedly turning down a role opposite box-office king Paul Newman in a surefire script, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Brando decided to make Burn!
The film, a searing indictment of racism and colonialism, flopped at the box office but won the esteem of progressive critics and cultural arbiters such as Howard Zinn. He subsequently appeared in the British film The Nightcomers , a prequel to "Turn of the Screw" and another critical and box office failure.
Kazan, after a life in film and the theater, said that, aside from Orson Welles , whose greatness lay in film making, he only met one actor who was a genius: Brando. Richard Burton, an intellectual with a keen eye for observation if not for his own film projects, said that he found Brando to be very bright, unlike the public perception of him as a Terry Malloy-type character that he himself inadvertently promoted through his boorish behavior.
Brando's problem, Burton felt, was that he was unique, and that he had gotten too much fame too soon at too early an age. Cut off from being nurtured by normal contact with society, fame had distorted Brando's personality and his ability to cope with the world, as he had not had time to grow up outside the limelight. Truman Capote , who eviscerated Brando in print in the mid-'50s and had as much to do with the public perception of the dyslexic Brando as a dumbbell, always said that the best actors were ignorant, and that an intelligent person could not be a good actor.
However, Brando was highly intelligent, and possessed of a rare genius in a then-deprecated art, acting. The problem that an intelligent performer has in movies is that it is the director, and not the actor, who has the power in his chosen field. Greatness in the other arts is defined by how much control the artist is able to exert over his chosen medium, but in movie acting, the medium is controlled by a person outside the individual artist.
It is an axiom of the cinema that a performance, as is a film, is "created" in the cutting room, thus further removing the actor from control over his art. Brando had tried his hand at directing, in controlling the whole artistic enterprise, but he could not abide the cutting room, where a film and the film's performances are made. This lack of control over his art was the root of Brando's discontent with acting, with movies, and, eventually, with the whole wide world that invested so much cachet in movie actors, as long as "they" were at the top of the box-office charts.
Hollywood was a matter of "they" and not the work, and Brando became disgusted. Charlton Heston , who participated in Martin Luther King 's March on Washington with Brando, believes that Marlon was the great actor of his generation.
However, noting a story that Brando had once refused a role in the early s with the excuse "How can I act when people are starving in India? As Rod Steiger once said, Brando had it all, great stardom and a great talent. He could have taken his audience on a trip to the stars, but he simply would not.
Steiger, one of Brando's children even though a contemporary, could not understand it. When James Mason ' was asked in who was the best American actor, he had replied that since Brando had let his career go belly-up, it had to be George C.
Scott , by default. Paramount thought that only Laurence Olivier would suffice, but Lord Olivier was ill. The young director believed there was only one actor who could play godfather to the group of Young Turk actors he had assembled for his film, The Godfather of method acting himself - Marlon Brando.
Francis Ford Coppola won the fight for Brando, Brando won - and refused - his second Oscar, and Paramount won a pot of gold by producing the then top-grossing film of all-time, The Godfather , a gangster movie most critics now judge one of the greatest American films of all time. Brando followed his iconic portrayal of Don Corleone with his Oscar-nominated turn in the high-grossing and highly scandalous Last Tango in Paris "Last Tango in Paris" , the first film dealing explicitly with sexuality in which an actor of Brando's stature had participated.
He was now again a top ten box office star and once again heralded as the greatest actor of his generation, an unprecedented comeback that put him on the cover of "Time" magazine and would make him the highest-paid actor in the history of motion pictures by the end of the decade.
Little did the world know that Brando, who had struggled through many projects in good faith during the s, delivering some of his best acting, only to be excoriated and ignored as the films did not do well at the box office, essentially was through with the movies.
After reaching the summit of his career, a rarefied atmosphere never reached before or since by any actor, Brando essentially walked away. He would give no more of himself after giving everything as he had done in Last Tango in Paris ," a performance that embarrassed him, according to his autobiography.
Brando had come as close to any actor to being the "auteur," or author, of a film, as the English-language scenes of "Tango" were created by encouraging Brando to improvise. The improvisations were written down and turned into a shooting script, and the scripted improvisations were shot the next day. Pauline Kael , the Brando of movie critics in that she was the most influential arbiter of cinematic quality of her generation and spawned a whole legion of Kael wannabes, said Brando's performance in Last Tango in Paris had revolutionized the art of film.
Brando, who had to act to gain his mother's attention; Brando, who believed acting at best was nothing special as everyone in the world engaged in it every day of their lives to get what they wanted from other people; Brando, who believed acting at its worst was a childish charade and that movie stardom was a whorish fraud, would have agreed with Sam Peckinpah 's summation of Pauline Kael : "Pauline's a brilliant critic but sometimes she's just cracking walnuts with her ass.
After another three-year hiatus, Brando took on just one more major role for the next 20 years, as the bounty hunter after Jack Nicholson in Arthur Penn 's The Missouri Breaks , a western that succeeded neither with the critics or at the box office. Following The Godfather and Tango, Brando's performance was disappointing for some reviewers, who accused him of giving an erratic and inconsistent performance. In , he narrated the English version of Raoni , a French-Belgian documentary film directed by Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and Luiz Carlos Saldanha that focused on the life of Raoni Metuktire and issues surrounding the survival of the indigenous Indian tribes of north central Brazil.
He agreed to the role only on assurance that he would be paid a large sum for what amounted to a small part, that he would not have to read the script beforehand, and his lines would be displayed somewhere off-camera. Brando also filmed scenes for the movie's sequel, Superman II, but after producers refused to pay him the same percentage he received for the first movie, he denied them permission to use the footage. Kurtz, that he authored on-camera through improvisation while Coppola shot take after take.
It was Brando's last bravura star performance. He co-starred with George C. Scott and John Gielgud in The Formula , but the film was another critical and financial failure. Years later though, he did receive an eighth and final Oscar nomination for his supporting role in A Dry White Season after coming out of a near-decade-long retirement.
Contrary to those who claimed he now only was in it for the money, Brando donated his entire seven-figure salary to an anti-apartheid charity. He then did an amusing performance in the comedy The Freshman , winning rave reviews. He portrayed Tomas de Torquemada in the historical drama Conquest of Paradise , but his performance was denounced and the film was another box office failure.
He then appeared in The Island of Dr. Moreau , co-starring Val Kilmer , who he didn't get along with. The filming was an unpleasant experience for Brando, as well as another critical and box office failure.
Brando had first attracted media attention at the age of 24, when "Life" magazine ran a photo of himself and his sister Jocelyn, who were both then appearing on Broadway. The curiosity continued, and snowballed.
Playing the paraplegic soldier of The Men , Brando had gone to live at a Veterans Administration hospital with actual disabled veterans, and confined himself to a wheelchair for weeks. It was an acting method, research, that no one in Hollywood had ever heard of before, and that willingness to experience life. Hopwood and Pedro Borges. Sign In. Edit Marlon Brando. Showing all items. Bizarrely unique voice with an extreme nasal tonality spoken in mumbles. Usually received top-billing in movies.
Even if he wasn't the most seen character e. Apocalypse Now nor in the titular role e. Superman Eldest son Christian Brando was arrested for murdering his half-sister's boyfriend Dag Drollet in He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in March and released in January Worked as a department store elevator operator before he became famous. He quit after four days due to his embarrassment in having to call out the lingerie floor.
The two remained lifelong friends, and Brando took Cox's sudden death from a heart attack at age 48 extremely hard. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the Sexiest Stars in film history 14 Two years before Brando declined his Oscar for Best Actor in The Godfather , he had applied to the Academy to replace the one he had won for On the Waterfront , which had been stolen. Prior to its theft, Brando had been using the Oscar as a doorstop.
Owned a private island off the Pacific coast, the Polynesian atoll known as Tetiaroa, from until his death in Native of Omaha, Nebraska. His mother once gave stage lessons to Henry Fonda , another Nebraska native. Was the youngest of three children of Marlon Brando Sr. His son Miko C.
Brando was once a bodyguard for Michael Jackson. Jackson and Brando remained good friends thereafter. Born to alcoholic parents, Brando was left alone much of the time as a child. While filming The Score , he refused to be on the set at the same time as director Frank Oz , referring to the former "Muppets" director as "Miss Piggy". Maria Cristina Ruiz, 43, filed the breach-of-contract suit, demanding damages and living expenses.
The lawsuit was settled in April Ranked 12 in Entertainment Weekly's "Top Entertainers" of all time Received more money for his short appearance as Jor-El in Superman than Christopher Reeve did in the title role.
Brando later sued for a percentage of the film's profits. He used cue cards in many of his movies because he refused to memorize his lines. His lines were written on the diaper of the baby, "Kal-El", in Superman One of the innovators of the Method acting technique in American film.
Was mentioned in The Sweet Life in a discussion about salary paid to film stars. Said that the only reason he continued to make movies was in order to raise the money to produce what he said would be the "definitive" film about Native Americans.
The film was never made. Expelled from high school for riding a motorcycle through the halls. His signature was considered so valuable to collectors, that many personal checks he wrote were never cashed because his signature was usually worth more than the amount on the check.
Appeared on the front sleeve of The Beatles ' classic album "Sgt. Brando's first wife was Anna Kashfi , who bore him a son whom they named Christian.
His second wife was Movita Castenada, who played the Tahitian love interest of Lt. Byam in Mutiny on the Bounty His third wife was Tarita Teriipia, who played the Tahitian love interest of Lt. Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty He is descended from Johann Wilhelm Brandau b.
The surname was eventually changed to "Brando". He reputedly suggested that his cameo role as Jor-El in Superman be done by him in voice-over only, with the character's image onscreen being a glowing, levitating green bagel. Unsure if Brando was joking or not, the film's producers formally rejected the suggestion.
He was offered a chance to reprise his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II and Jor El in Superman II , but he turned them both down due to his own credo that once he finished a role, he put it away and moved on.
He turned down both films despite being offered three times more money than any of his co-stars. Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna 's song "Vogue". Empire magazine profiled him as part of their "Greatest Living Actors" series. The issue containing this feature was published a week before his death.
Biographer Peter Manso said that at the time of production of flops such as The Appaloosa , Brando had turned down the leading role of a Hamlet production in England, with Laurence Olivier. During an acting class, when the students were told to act out "a chicken hearing an air-raid siren", most of the students clucked and flapped their arms in a panic, while Brando stood stock-still, staring up at the ceiling.
When asked to explain himself, Brando replied, "I'm a chicken - I don't know what an air-raid siren is. Received top billing in nearly every film he appeared in, even if not cast in the lead role. Consequently, the role was played by James Woods.
Brando refused, believing that the offer should not be conditional, and that the condition that he appear on the televised ceremony showed that the Academy was not primarily focused on honoring artistic excellence. He attended a staging of Eugene O'Neill 's autobiographical "Long Day's Journey Into Night" with an eye towards starring in a proposed film of the play.
The play deals with the drug addiction of Mary Tyrone, modeled after O'Neil's own mother, which, along with her husband's miserliness and her oldest son's alcoholism, has blighted her youngest son's life. When asked his opinion of the play, Brando, whose mother was an alcoholic and had died relatively young in , replied, "Lousy". Jason Robards , who originated the role of older son James Tyrone, Jr.
He was reportedly once interested in playing Pablo Picasso on film and was trying to reduce weight on a banana diet. In his autobiography, he said that he was physically attracted to Vivien Leigh during the making of A Streetcar Named Desire However, he could not bring himself to seduce her, as he found her husband, Laurence Olivier , to be such a "nice guy".
Brando was not interested but did appear in Apocalypse Now , the film Coppola actually did make after finishing The Godfather sequel.
According to co-producer Fred Roos , Brando was scheduled to make a cameo appearance in The Godfather: Part II , specifically in the flashback at the film's ending in which Vito Corleone comes back to his home and is greeted with a surprise birthday party. In fact, he was expected the day of shooting but did not show up due to a salary dispute.
According to Francis Ford Coppola , he had not been paid for The Godfather and thus would not appear in the sequel. Was a huge fan of Afro-Caribbean music, and changed from being a strict drummer to the congas after becoming enthralled by the music in New York City in the s. Took possession of friend Wally Cox 's ashes from his widow in order to scatter them at sea but actually kept them hidden in a closet at his house.
In his autobiography, Brando said he frequently talked to Cox. The Los Angeles Times on September 22, quoted Brando's son, Miko, to the effect that both his father's and Cox's ashes were scattered at the same time in Death Valley, California in a ceremony following Brando's death.
Asked The Godfather co-star James Caan what he would want if his wishes came true. When Caan answered that he would like to be in love, Brando answered, "Me too. But don't tell my wife. Was scheduled to appear in the David Lean -directed "Nostromo" , but when Lean died, the production came to a halt. Thus, the world missed the last of three chances to see one of the world's greatest actors work with one of the world's greatest directors.
Producer Sam Spiegel , who had won an Oscar for On the Waterfront , offered Brando the title role in Lean's Lawrence of Arabia , which he turned down, saying he did not want to ride camels in the desert for two years. Brando was Lean's first choice for the male lead in Ryan's Daughter , but Brando, who at that time was considered box office poison by movie studios, never was offered the role.
Brando tried to join the Army during World War II but was rejected due to a knee injury he had sustained while playing football at Shattuck Military Academy. After he made The Men , the Korean War broke out, and he was ordered by the draft board to report for a physical prior to induction. As his knee was better due to an operation, he initially was reclassified from 4-F to 1-A, but the military again rejected him, this time for mental problems, as he was under psychoanalysis. The story about his mother his character Paul tells Jeanne in Last Tango in Paris , about how she taught him to appreciate nature, which he illustrates with his reminiscence of his dog Dutchy hunting rabbits in a mustard field, is real, based on his own recollections of his past.
His best friend was Wally Cox , whom he had known as a child and then met again when both were aspiring actors in New York during the s. According to Brando's autobiography, there was not a day that went by when he did not think of Wally. So close did he feel to Cox, he even kept the pajamas he died in.
Studied modern dance with Katherine Dunham in New York in the early s and briefly considered becoming a dancer. Considered Montgomery Clift a friend and a "very good actor". They were not rivals, as the public perceived them to be during the s. After Clift died of a heart attack in , Brando took over his role in Reflections in a Golden Eye He became friends with Baldwin, a friendship that lasted until Baldwin's death.
Shortly before his death in , he gave EA Games permission to use his voice for its video game The Godfather After a decade of being considered "box-office poison" after the large losses generated by the big-budget remake of Mutiny on the Bounty , the twin successes of The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris made Brando a superstar again. He was named the 6 and 10 top money-making star in and , respectively, by the Motion Picture Herald. The top 10 box-office list was based on an annual poll of movie exhibitors in the United States as to the drawing power of stars, conducted by Quigley Publications.
Even before he let himself get obese and balloon up to over lb. The Men co-star Richard Erdman claimed Brando's diet circa consisted "mainly of junk food, usually take-out Chinese or peanut butter, which he consumed by the jarful".
By the mids, he was renowned for eating boxes of Mallomars and cinnamon buns, washing them down with a quart of milk. Close friend Carlo Fiore wrote that in the s and early s, Brando went on crash diets before his films commenced shooting, but when he lost his willpower he would eat huge breakfasts consisting of corn flakes, sausages, eggs, bananas and cream, and a huge stack of pancakes drenched in syrup.
Fiore was detailed by producers to drag him out of coffee shops. Karl Malden claimed that, during the shooting of One-Eyed Jacks , Brando would have "two steaks, potatoes, two apple pies a la mode and a quart of milk" for dinner, necessitating constant altering of his costumes.
During a birthday party for Brando--the film's director as well as star--the crew gave him a belt with a card reading, "Hope it fits. His second wife Movita , who had a lock put on their refrigerator to stop pilfering by what she thought was the household staff, awoke one morning to find the lock broken and teeth marks on a round of cheese.
The maid told her that Brando nightly raided the fridge. Movita also related how he often drove down to hot dog stands late at night one of his favorite spots was the legendary Pink's Hot Dogs in Hollywood; it was open 24 hours a day, and Brando would go there at or in the morning and polish off a half-dozen hot dogs at a time.
Mutiny on the Bounty costumer James Taylor claimed that Brando split the seat on 52 pairs of pants during the shooting of the film, necessitating that stretch fabric be sewn into his replacement duds. He split those, too. Ice cream was the culprit: Brando would purloin a five-gallon tub of the fattening dessert, row himself out into the lagoon and indulge.
On the set of The Appaloosa , Brando's double often had to be used for shooting after lunch, and filming could only proceed in long shots, as Brando could no longer fit into his costumes. Dick Loving, who was married to Brando's sister Frannie, said that Brando used to eat "two chickens at a sitting, and [go] through bags of Pepperidge Farm cookies. Living on his island of Tetioroa, Brando created what he called "real-life Mounds Bars" by cracking open a coconut, melting some chocolate in the sun, then stirring it into the coconut for a tasty treat.
By the s, there were reports that one of his girlfriends had left him because he failed to keep his promise of losing weight. He seemed to be dieting, but to her astonishment, he never lost weight.
She found out that his buddies had been throwing bags of Burger King Whoppers over the gates of his Mulholland Dr. In the late s, Brando was spotted regularly buying ice cream from a Beverly Hills ice cream shop--five gallons at a time.
He supposedly confessed that he was eating it all himself. Finally, a reported Brando snack was a pound of cooked bacon shoved into an entire loaf of bread. When Brando became sick, he seriously cut back and lost 70 pounds on a bland diet, but never lost his love of food and especially ice cream.
Won his seventh, and last, Best Actor Oscar nomination in , for Last Tango in Paris , after he had generated much ill-will in Hollywood by refusing his Oscar for The Godfather It proves that voting members are interested only in performances, not in sidelights.
Scott , also was nominated as Best Actor the year following his snubbing of the Academy. So far, Brando, Scott and screenwriter Dudley Nichols , who refused to accept his Oscar for the movie The Informer due to a Writers Guild strike, are the only people out of more than 2, winners to turn down the Award.
In his September Playboy magazine interview, director Sam Peckinpah said that a problem with One-Eyed Jacks is that Brando would not play a villain.
Peckinpah had worked on rewriting the script, which was based on the novel "The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones", a retelling of the Billy the Kid legend. According to Peckinpah, Billy the Kid was a genuine villain, whereas Brando's character "Rio" was not, thus lessening the dramatic impact of the story. He praised Brando for his acting comeback as Don Corleone in The Godfather , both as the return of a great actor and as an example of Brando's newfound willingness to shuck off his old predilection and actually play a villain.
At the 77th Academy Awards ceremony, he was the last person featured in the film honoring film industry personalities who had passed away the previous year. When she announced him as the winner, Brando took the gum out of his mouth and shook hands with fellow nominee Bing Crosby , who had been reckoned the favorite that night, before going on stage to accept the statuette.
Bette Davis , who had presented Brando with his first Best Actor Oscar at the 27th Academy Awards in , told the press that she was thrilled he had won. She elaborated, "He and I had much in common. He, too, had made many enemies. He, too, is a perfectionist.
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