Word: brandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Landing in Miami after a voodoo-drummed idyl in Haiti with Omaha Dentist Miles Graham (real name: Marlon Brando), sultry Eurasian student Timy Van Nga (real identity: Actress France Nuyen) lost her temper at the airport when lensmen tried to snap the ill-disguised lovebirds (TIME, Sept. 28). After conking a photographer with her purse and punching his face, France abandoned the precarious world of Timy Van Nga to return to Broadway and her title role in The World of Suzie Wong...
...tourist got off a plane in Port-au-Prince, told immigration officials he was Miles Gaham, 35, a dentist from Omaha. The Haitians looked right past his white cap, tight woolen shirt, dark glasses and absurd phony mustache, said: "Welcome, Marlon Brando." The actor had brought along a pretty Eurasian girl, who said her name was Timy Van Nga; occupation: student. In a U-drive-it Volkswagen, the two demonstrated the close relationship between love and Haiti, thrill-riding the island's mountain curves, dancing to voodoo drums at the nightclub Bacoulou. By week's end, when...
...performance by Alec Guinness is a major event (though one may, as it turns out, be more major than another). For Guinness, together with Brando and Gielgud, constitute the reigning triumvirate of English-speaking actors...
...Latin atmosphere." In Houston, he accepted a blue-blooded quarter horse, gave permission to Oilman Frank Waters to make a movie about the revolution. "To do justice to a story so powerful," said Waters, "I have hired the top producer in America, Jerry Wald." Hoped-for cast: Marlon Brando as Fidel and Frank Sinatra as his pony-tailed brother Raul...
Divorced. Marlon Brando, 35, whose cinemumbling has earned him so much money that he agreed to make various payments-alimony, child support, medical expenses-totaling $685,000 in the next ten years; by Cinemactress Anna Kashfi, 24, once Joanie O'Callaghan of Darjeeling, India; after 18 months of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...