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Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me

Author : Marlon Brando
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307786730
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me written by Marlon Brando and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Marlon Brando’s own story, and his reason for telling it is best revealed in his own words: “I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life, for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent. . . . But now, in my seventieth year, I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.” To date there have been over a dozen books written about Marlon Brando, and almost all of them have been inaccurate, based on hearsay, sensationalist or prurient in tone. Now, at last, fifty years after his first appearance onstage in New York City, the actor has told his life story, with the help of Robert Lindsey. The result is an extraordinary book, at once funny, moving, absorbing, ribald, angry, self-deprecating and completely frank account of the career, both on-screen and off, of the greatest actor of our time. Anyone who has ever enjoyed a Brando film will relish this book. Please note: this edition does not include photos.

The Contender

Author : William J. Mann
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062427652
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Contender written by William J. Mann and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly Based on new and revelatory material from Brando’s own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before. The most influential movie actor of his era, Marlon Brando changed the way other actors perceived their craft. His approach was natural, honest, and deeply personal, resulting in performances—most notably in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront—that are without parallel. Brando was heralded as the American Hamlet—the Yank who surpassed British stage royalty Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Ralph Richardson as the standard of greatness in the mid-twentieth century. Brando’s impact on American culture matches his professional significance; he both challenged and codified our ideas of masculinity and sexuality. Brando was also one of the first stars to use his fame as a platform to address social, political, and moral issues, courageously calling out America’s deeply rooted racism. William Mann’s brilliant biography of the Hollywood legend illuminates this culture icon for a new age. Mann astutely argues that Brando was not only a great actor but also a cultural soothsayer, a Cassandra warning us about the challenges to come. Brando’s admonitions against the monetization of nearly every aspect of the culture were prescient. His public protests against racial segregation and discrimination at the height of the Civil Rights movement—getting himself arrested at least once—were criticized as being needlessly provocative. Yet those actions of fifty years ago have become a model many actors follow today. Psychologically astute and masterfully researched, based on new and revelatory material, The Contender explores the star and the man in full, including the childhood traumas that reverberated through his professional and personal life. It is a dazzling biography of our nation’s greatest actor that is sure to become an instant classic. The Contender includes sixteen pages of photographs.

Marlon Brando

Author : Florence Colombani
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714866635
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Marlon Brando written by Florence Colombani and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful new, highly illustrated, and elegantly designed series, Anatomy of an Actor explores the world's most established and favourite actors, and the characters they have played.

Conversations with Marlon Brando

Author : Lawrence Grobel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981805627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Marlon Brando written by Lawrence Grobel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For ten truly remarkable daysin June 1978, Lawrence Grobel spent every waking minute with legendary actor Marlon Brando and his family on Brando's Tahitian island, Tetiaroa. It was the first time in twenty-five years that Brando, notorious for his reclusive, reticent lifestyle, had granted and extended interview to anyone. Rat press is excited to make Conversations with Marlon Brando available on[c]e more, with new material from Lawrence Grobel added since Brando's death." website.

Brando Unzipped

Author : Darwin Porter
Publisher : Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780974811826
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Brando Unzipped written by Darwin Porter and published by Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That ongoing, barely under control drama known as Marlon Brando--Hollywood's Ultimate Bad Boy, Megastar, and Sexual Outlaw--with a special focus on his early rise to fame and his social and sexual associations with the A-list legends of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Brando Unzipped is the definitive gossip guide to the late, great actor's life --New York Daily News. Lurid, raunchy, perceptive, and certainly worth reading, it's one of the best show-biz biographies of the year. --London's Sunday Times. Brando Unzipped received an Honorable Mention from Foreword Magazine in its Book of the Year competition, and it won a Silver Ippy award for Best Biography from the Independent Publisher's Association.

Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work

Author : Susan L. Mizruchi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244261
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work written by Susan L. Mizruchi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life. When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando’s Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper; the man who consciously used his body and employed the objects around him to create believable characters; the man who loved Emily Dickinson’s poetry. To write this biography, Mizruchi gained unprecedented access to a vast number of annotated books from Brando’s library, hand-edited copies of screenplays, private letters, and recorded interviews that have never before been quoted in a biography. Original interviews with some of the still-living players from Brando’s life, including Ellen Adler, his one-time girlfriend and the daughter of his acting teacher Stella Adler, provide even deeper insight into the complex person whose intelligence belied the high-school dropout. Mizruchi shows how Brando’s embrace of foreign cultures and social outsiders led to his brilliant performances in unusual roles—a gay man, an Asian, a German soldier—to test himself and to foster empathy on a global scale. We also meet the political Brando: the civil rights activist, the close friend of James Baldwin, the actor who declined his Oscar to support Indian rights. More than seventy stunning—and many rare—photographs of Marlon Brando illuminate this portrait of the man who has left an astounding cultural legacy.

Marlon Brando

Author : Patricia Bosworth
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453245022
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Marlon Brando written by Patricia Bosworth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the legendary actor “offers a fascinating look into his charismatic genius” (Library Journal). In 1948 Marlon Brando stunned audiences and critics alike with his revolutionary, raw, and improvisational approach to acting. He became a symbol of a new, rebellious generation that was sick of conventions and committed to genuine emotion and unvarnished truth. From his breakout role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire to his mesmerizing portrayal of Don Corleone in The Godfather, he created some of the most memorable characters in American cinematic history. Brando was a paradox—intensely private but using his fame to promote worthy causes, a womanizer who clung to his childhood friends and animals. He was one of the most fiercely independent stars ever. In this book, acclaimed biographer Patricia Bosworth peels away Brando’s many layers, revealing the struggles, triumphs, and relentless ambition that transformed the irrepressible farm boy from Nebraska into a legend of American cinema.

Fan-Tan

Author : Marlon Brando
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307264270
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Fan-Tan written by Marlon Brando and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fan-Tan is a hugely entertaining, swashbuckling romp, from one of the greatest actors of our time: Marlon Brando. The story of an eccentric early-twentieth-century pirate who sets out on the high seas from the Philippines to Shanghai, Fan-Tan follows the exploits of Anatole “Annie” Doultry, a larger-than-life character that Brando could have easily inhabited himself. When Annie saves the life of a Chinese prisoner in a Hong Kong prison, he’s led to the mysterious and seductive Madame Lai Choi San—one of the most notorious gangsters in Asia—and here the true adventures begin.Years in the making with Brando’s longtime collaborator, screenwriter and director Donald Cammell, Fan-Tan is a rollicking, delectable tale—and the last surprise from an ever-surprising legend.

Marlon Brando

Author : Gary Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780450397509
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Marlon Brando written by Gary Carey and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brando

Author : Ron Offen
Publisher : Chicago : Regnery
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Brando written by Ron Offen and published by Chicago : Regnery. This book was released on 1973 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marlon Brando

Author : George Englund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marlon Brando written by George Englund and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlon Brando was the brightest, boldest, and most iconoclastic acting talent of our time. But while his courage and imagination as an artist brought applause and attention from around the world, Brando shunned nearly everything that goes with celebrity status. He was one of the most reclusive personalities in modern times and a legend beyond compare. He was also an equal opportunity provocateur -- a dazzling baffler -- be it on stage, on screen, or in his private life. Always true to his nature, he never failed to surprise. He did things the way it had never been done before.No one shared as much of Brando's private fields as his lifelong friend and business confidant, George Englund. For more than five decades, Brando and Englund were each other's most trusted ally and closest compadre. Even at their first meeting, he and Englund forged such close ties that people at first suspected they were lovers.

Waltzing with Brando

Author : Bernard Judge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982622643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Waltzing with Brando written by Bernard Judge and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waltzing with Brandois the story of a young Los Angeles architect who found himself, quite unexpectedly, living on an unpopulated atoll in the South Pacific with his client, Marlon Brando. Bernard Judge recounts his life changing experience while discovering the culture of Polynesia and Tahiti in the early 70's, before mass tourism, electrification and the automobile changed everything. The book is filled with amusing anecdotes about his famous client. It exposes Marlon Brando the man, not the actor, his foibles and eccentricities and regales the reader with Brando's ridiculous exploits with women. It is also a narrative about Tetiaroa, Brandon's private atoll, about living in nature without despoiling the environment. Questions are asked. Should a hotel be built? What are the consequences? It tells of how Brando and his architect came to an understanding, an appreciation for the atoll's archeology, its ecology, and the interdependence of its marine life, sea birds and nesting turtle grounds. It is an unusual convergence of adventure, of reaching for a dream, and a compelling love story richly told and illustrated with beautiful historic photographs of the period.

Somebody

Author : Stefan Kanfer
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571278787
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Somebody written by Stefan Kanfer and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlon Brando will never cease to fascinate us: for his triumphs as an actor (On the Waterfront, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris), as well as his disasters; for the power of the screen portrayals he gave, and for his turbulent, tumultuous personal life. Seamlessly intertwining the man and the work, Kanfer takes us through Brando's troubled childhood, to his arrival in New York in the 1940s, where he studied with the legendary Stella Adler, and at the age of twenty-three became the toast of Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire. Kanfer expertly examines each of Brando's films - from The Men in 1950 to The Score in 2001 - making clear the evolution of Brando's singular genius, while also shedding light on the cultural evolution of Hollywood itself. And he brings into focus Brando's self-destructiveness, his lifelong dissembling, his deeply ambivalent feelings towards his chosen vocation, and the tragedies that shadowed his final years. This is a never-before-seen portrait of one of the most extraordinary talents of the twentieth century.

The Technique of Acting

Author : Stella Adler
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Technique of Acting written by Stella Adler and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1990 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives instruction and exercises designed to develop mastery of body, speech, mind, and emotion.

Marlon Brando

Author : Nellie Bly
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786000869
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Marlon Brando written by Nellie Bly and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of the legendary actor, by the New York Times bestselling author of Oprah!. Bly explores Brando's life of shocking excess--including his wives, countless lovers, and the women who were fatally attracted to him . . . as well as his tortured relationships with his many children, both in and out of wedlock. 16 pages of photos.

Memoirs of A Professional Cad

Author : George Sanders
Publisher : Dean Street Press
ISBN 13 : 1910570052
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of A Professional Cad written by George Sanders and published by Dean Street Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might we dare to expect from an actor's autobiography, even one from a star as personable as George Sanders? In the case of Memoirs of a Professional Cad, we possibly get more than we deserve. George Sanders undoubtedly led a colourful, glamorous and even action-packed life, spanning the peak years of Hollywood's golden age. But the greatest joy of his memoirs is how funny they are, and how penetrating their author's wit. Endlessly quotable, every chapter shows that the sardonic charm and intelligence he lent to the silver screen were not merely implied. George's early childhood was spent in Tsarist Russia, before he was obliged to flee with his family to England on the eve of the Russian Revolution. He survived two English boarding schools before seeking adventure in Chile and Argentina where he sold cigarettes and kept a pet ostrich in his apartment. We can only be grateful that George was eventually asked to leave South America following a duel of honour (very nearly to the death), and was forced to take up acting for a living instead. Memoirs of A Professional Cad has much to say about Hollywood and the stars George Sanders worked with and befriended, not to mention the irrespressible Tsa Tsa Gabor who became his wife. But at heart it is less a conventional autobiography, and more a Machiavellian guide to life, and the art of living, from a man who knew a thing or two on the subject. So we are invited to share George's thought-provoking views on women, friendship, the pros and cons of therapy, ageing, possessions, and the necessity of contrasts ( Sanders' maxim: 'the more extreme the contrast, the fuller the life'). Previously out of print for many decades, Memoirs of A Professional Cad stands today as one of the classic Hollywood memoirs, from one of its most original, enduring and inimitable stars. This edition also features a new afterword by George Sanders' niece, Ulla Watson. 'Even when asking a hatcheck girl for his coat, he conveyed the impression of a malevolent cat fastidiously licking its chops over the prospect of a particularly toothsome mouse.' Salon

Somebody

Author : Stefan Kanfer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400078040
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Somebody written by Stefan Kanfer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefan Kanfer, acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illuminating appraisal. Beginning with Brando’s turbulent childhood, Kanfer follows him to New York where he made his star-making Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at age twenty-three. Brando then decamped for Hollywood, and Kanfer looks at each of Brando’s films over the years—from The Men in 1950 to The Score in 2001—offering deft and insightful analysis of his sometimes brilliant, sometimes baffling performances. And, finally, Kanfer brings into focus Brando’s self-destructiveness, ambivalence toward his craft, and the tragedies that shadowed his last years.