Word: brandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornered in Hollywood by a persevering newsman, Cinemale Marlon (Sayonara) Brando chose to speak on an actor's right to privacy: "It's not a matter of being entitled to privacy-it's an absolute requisite. The trouble is, everyone's life in this country is public property. Anyone who objects to the intrusion of his private life is considered to be idiosyncratic, bizarre, uncooperative and dishonest." Uncooperatively, Brando would mumble not a word about his marriage or his pregnant wife, Variable Starlet Johanna ("Anna Kashfi") O'Callaghan Brando, who keeps uncooperatively insisting that...
...Court Martial, and he eventually replaced the late John Hodiak in the show. "I didn't register beyond the sixth row," he admits. But later, Garner landed a small part in TV's Cheyenne, and on the strength of it, Warner Bros, signed him to play Marlon Brando's Marine buddy in Sayonara...
...significance is embedded in a passionate plea on behalf of miscegenation. Based on James Michener's bestselling switch on John Luther Long's love story, the picture tells the tale of Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando), an ace of the Korean war known as "the Air Force's pinup boy," and a Japanese pinup girl named Hana-ogi (Miiko Taka), the star of the Matsubayashi vaudeville troupe...
...Brando is supposed to be a Southerner-though his accent sounds as if it was strained through Stanislavsky's mustache. When he first meets Hana-ogi, he believes that "fraternization is a disgrace to the uniform." But he has to admit that she is "a fahn-lookin' woman," and the color line soon becomes as vague in his mind as the meridian of Greenwich. "I will love you, Gruver-san," she murmurs to him one day, "if that is what you desire." That is what he desires, all right, and after much too much Brandoperatic declamation about "what...
...consternation she refuses: "I have dedicated my life to my art." Having already seen the overdressed girlie show she works in, a Western viewer may be somewhat confused by her attitude. But Brando has to pretend to take the situation seriously, and it plainly bores him. He has some fun now and then monkey-see-monkey-doing like the Japanese, but he seems to find it unsatisfying to have to scratch himself through a kimono...