Word: brandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS) Guests. Marlon Brando. Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra...
...screenings, photographic sessions, business appointments and kimono changes (she was equipped with ten sets) that she had little time even for window shopping. At week's end she left for Hollywood to discuss MGM's prize offer: that she play the role of Lotus Blossom opposite Marlon Brando in the film version of Broadway's Teahouse of the August Moon...
...high wall of fame? In recent months, Frank Sinatra has managed to irritate a crowd of 10,000 in Australia, sue a well-known producer for breach of contract and make it widely known that he "would rather punch him in the face," display scorn in public for Marlon Brando, alienate the affections of Sam Goldwyn, mount a wide-open attack on another entertainer in a prominent newspaper ad ("Ed Sullivan, You're sick . . . P.S. Sick! Sick! Sick...
Last week, Producers Sam Spiegel (On the Waterfront) and Joseph Mankiewicz (The Barefoot Contessa) were jockeying with each other and with Italian Director Alberto Lattuada (Mill on the Po) to get a head start in shooting the life of Goya in its original Spanish setting. All three want Marlon Brando in the title role. But so does Director Stanley Kramer, whose new film, The Pride and the Passion, will be entirely photographed in Spain...
...Scratch. Goldwyn has never pinched his moviemaking pennies in his zeal for what he calls "quality." Guys and Dolls, with Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons, Vivian Elaine and 16 Goldwyn Girls, is budgeted at $5,500,000. Goldwyn paid $1,000,000 merely for the screen rights to the Broadway musical and that, as a Goldwyn hireling put it in Runyonese, "is a lot of scratch." It is probably the highest price ever paid for a single film property...