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Jessica Tandy wins a Tony for her role in A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams' drama. Along with winning a Pulitzer Prize for best drama, Williams' play included Marlon Brando, whose performance caused Life to comment that his "deeply meant acting and oddly compelling way of speaking showed that he was an actor of real stature." Brando's sister, Jocelyn, also graced Broadway, starring in Mister Roberts. Other Tony winners include Paul Kelly for his role in Command Decision, Basil Rathbone for The Heiress and Judith Anderson for Medea...
...Sovereignty Commission often seemed like a band of Klanstone Kops. Investigators were flummoxed by the race of a baby with a light complexion and dark, curly hair. They railed hilariously at "beatniks" and "Castroites" and sought to boycott sponsors of integrationist entertainers such as Lena Horne and Marlon Brando...
...yeah, Brando for example. When he was my age, he was the hardest working guy. He had a discipline that was unmatched. But now, because he gets away with everything--I mean the mistakes he made influence young actors. The younger guys are like "Oh all I gotta do is like get fat and go to Fiji." I mean that's just not true. What's true is just look at the young Marlon Brando and how he worked and what he did. He busted his ass--and Robert Duvall, for example, is still like that. That...
...think there's a big difference between the actors of the past generation--Duvall, Brando, DeNiro, Hoffman--and actors of the current...
...Sayonara (1957) has Brando, James Garner, and Ricardo Montalban ? as a Japanese guy. Comedian Red Buttons played it serious for a Best Supporting Actor nod in the wartime hankey-wringer that won a fistful of hardware that year...