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After seeing his performance in The Men, Hollywood began to believe Brando's extravagant advance publicity. His personal eccentricities, as well as his acting skill, had the film colony agog. He appeared to be the first genuine "character" since Garbo. Dressed in his usual cotton T-shirt and greasy jeans, Brando shunned the big stars and their glittering parties, brushed Hedda Hopper aside with a few vague grunts, spent most of his time roaming the back alleys and bars, sometimes without shoes. The $150 weekly allowance from his father (who invests the rest of Brando's earnings...
From Paris, Playwright Tennessee (A Streetcar Named Desire) Williams admitted that he had just finished his first novel, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, about a retired American actress living in Rome. The book will not be published until September, but Williams has already set his heart on Greta Garbo to star in the movie version...
Best alltime film: 1939's Gone With the Wind (which was also one of the best at the box office with a $33 million gross). Best actor: Charlie Chaplin. Best actress: Greta Garbo...
...industry's oldtimers, balloting separately for their silent-screen favorites, again picked Chaplin and Garbo, named Griffith as both director and producer, and his The Birth of a Nation as the best movie. In the sound-film category, G.W.T.W. won again hands down; Samuel Goldwyn and William Wyler, the makers of The Best Years of Our Lives, won the producers and director's laurels. Spencer Tracy nosed out Sir Laurence Olivier as the best actor. Best sound-film actress: Ingrid Bergman...
Five American products are on the program: Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus," Thursday, February 16; "The informer," with Victor McLaglen; Tuesday, February 21; "The Kiss,"' with Greta Garbo, March 2; "Of Mice and Men," with Burgess Meredith, April 11; and Chaplin in "Tillie's Punctured Romance," April...