Word: marlon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quicksand & Old Corsets. Marlon Brando Jr. was born on April 3, 1924 in Omaha, Neb., the third child, first son of a salesman of limestone products. His mother, described years later by Actress Stella Adler as "a very beautiful, a heavenly, lost, girlish creature," played leads for the local dramatic society and burned for a larger stage of life. Her children caught fire. "She was a wonderful, wonderful woman," says daughter Jocelyn, now a Broadway actress (Mister Roberts), "with a great capacity for understanding and giving." Marlon, says Jocelyn, was "a blond, fat-bellied little boy, quite serious and very...
...young Marlon, better known in those days as Bud, life was an unbroken series of contests: Who could eat fastest, hold his breath longest, open his mouth widest, tell the biggest lie, do the least homework? One day he and some other boys invented the best game of all: Who can sink farthest in the quicksand along the river bank without hollering for help? (Luckily, nobody won.) Bud and sister Frances (now Mrs. Richard Loving, a painter, living in Mundelein, Ill.) ran away from home regularly every Sunday afternoon. On Saturdays Bud rummaged devotedly through the neighbors' rubbish, came...
...eight, Marlon brought home a live woman. "I found her lying near the lake, Mother," he said. "She's sick, and doesn't have any place to stay." (Mother put her up for the night in the local hotel.) Later he brought home a whole series of charity cases: his girl friends. Sighed his grandmother: "Marlon always fell for the cross-eyed girls...
...Window. Free as a bird at home, Marlon never took kindly to the cage of formal education. When his father sent him to Shattuck Military Academy-"the military asylum," he still calls it-Marlon tried hard to be a good soldier. The first two years went pretty well. He got parts in two school plays, but in both cases (he played a corpse on the gallows at midnight and an explorer in an Egyptian tomb) it was too dark to tell whether he was really any good. Then, all at once he was expelled. One of the reasons: late...
...Marlon thought for awhile that he would like to enter the ministry. Talked out of that, he spent the summer of 1943 as a tile fitter in a drain factory (he was turned down for the draft because of a trick knee). In the fall he went to New York to live with sister Frances, then studying painting at New York's Art Students League. After four days as an elevator operator at Best's department store (he quit because it embarrassed him to call out things like "lingerie''). Marlon went to study dramatics with Stella...