Word: brandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinemactor Marlon (Julius Caesar) Brando, whose eccentricities have never needed jazzing up by Hollywood press-agents, confided to a United Press reporter that he is really quite normal, not the odd number the public reads about in columns and fan-magazine chronicles...
actresses ("all look alike . . . wiggling their rear ends"), television ("worse than the movies"), movies ("brutality, lust, sex and suffering"), and Americans in general ("peasant stock"). With that off his mind, Brando got back into character: "Actually, I don't give a damn." Jaime Ortiz Patino, 25, nephew of Bolivia's gold-laden tin magnate, reported to Roman police that he is minus one bride. The-vanished one: Joanne Connelly Sweeny Patino, 23, Manhattan's "most beautiful debutante" of 1948, divorced last November by Britain's former Amateur Golf Champion Robert Sweeny, who named fast-moving Dominican...
Cinemactor Marlon Brando, who took off from a Hollywood movie set last fortnight and landed on the couch of his Manhattan psychiatrist, was sued for $2,000,000 by 20th Century-Fox, which called him irreplaceable in his role in The Egyptian, but said that his couch time was costing the studio...
...Wild One has Marlon Brando ditching Mark Anthony's toga for a pair of greasy blue jeans and a leather jacket. In the process he picks up a flashy motorcycle and some cool bop talk, and accompanied by a grizzly crew sporting well oiled side-burns, Brando roars to a stop in a one-car town. For a moment it looks like a desperadoes-shooting-up-the-village western with over-powered motorcycles replacing the trusty steed. But what might have been little more than a modern horse opera turns into a brutally realistic blend of tension and violence forceful...
...background for the conflict, the town is a believable combination of small time cafe and bar, dinky shops and shaggy park. In the tavern cyclists gleefully guzzle beer while Brando strides about with an alley cat swagger, convincing the town and audience he harbors a grudge against the world in general. Center of his interest is Mary Murphy, playing a tousled, mixed-up waitress, who asks "Isn't it all crazy?" As her father, the local cop, Robert Keith sometimes seems to worry more about his part than his inability to cope with the disturbance. But he does well...