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...topnotch cast, most of whom worked for less than their regular salaries to be identified with such a big "prestige" picture: Marlon Brando (Mark Antony), Louis Calhern (Caesar), James Mason (Brutus), John Gielgud (Cassius), Deborah Kerr (Portia), Greer Garson (Calpurnia). The screenplay, reportedly all Shakespeare, contains no "additional dialogue." Says Producer Houseman: "We kept it in black-and-white because there are certain parallels between this play and modern times. People associate dictators with black-and-white newsreel shots of them haranguing the crowds . . . Mussolini on the balcony, that sort of thing. With color, you lose that reality...
Most interesting question: How will Marlon Brando, whose Hollywood fame (The Men, A Streetcar Named Desire) is based on muttering and grumbling his lines in a Polish accent, sound reading the funeral oration...
...teeth into playwriting, already has completed a script, Violets Are Blue (about an unwanted rosebush). Although he is now making $1,000 a week (roughly 40 times his silversmithing salary), he still lives simply in a Manhattan apartment, drives the motorcycle he bought from his friend, Actor Marlon Brando, still patches his trousers with plastic cement. He spends his weekends flower-watching on a newly acquired 2½-acre field in Rockland, N.Y. "Next thing," he says in his timid Peepersish voice, "I think I'll buy me a bunch of cows...
Winners of the Fifth International Film Festival were announced in Cannes. Best actress, Lee Grant (the shoplifter in Detective Story). Best actor: Marlon (Viva Zapata) Brando...
Viva Zapata! Marlon Brando in a forceful dramatization about Mexico's peasant rebellion. At the Metropolitan...