Word: marlon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Cinemale Marlon Brando, in a New Yorker profile by wispy-banged Author Truman Capote, recalled the late Cinemactor James Dean: "He had an idée fixe about me. Whatever I did he did. He was always trying to get close to me. He used to call up. I'd listen to him talking to the answering service, asking for me, leaving messages. But I never spoke up. I never called him back . . . When I finally met Dean, it was at a party. Where he was throwing himself around, acting the madman ... I took him aside and asked...
...Jack Hawkins) who builds a bridge for his Japanese captors, to restore his fellow prisoners' self-respect, then helps destroy it. ¶ Warner's Sayonara, an adaptation of James Michener's novel about two American veterans of the Korean war who marry Japanese girls. The Americans: Marlon Brando and Red Buttons. CJ ¶20th Century-Fox's Peyton Place -murder, suicide and assorted sex activities distilled from Grace Metalioús' bestselling novel. Stars: Lana Turner, Lloyd Nolan and flocks of New England townsfolk playing themselves...
Catching Hollywood's rumorists by surprise, Cinemactor Marlon Brando, 33, got spruced up (the unwashed jeans lately have stood empty while their owner sported a blue suit, necktie and Hom-burg), drove to Eagle Rock, near Pasadena, and got married. Then with his bride, demure, olive-skinned, sari-swathed Starlet Anna Kashfi, 23, almost as unknown as any of the carhops and hat-nappers he has dated while snubbing the screen's more famous ladies, "Hollywood's most eligible bachelor" vanished in a cloud of idle speculation. Was there a Welshman in the woodpile? Was Dar-jeeling...
...Married. Marlon Brando, 33, mumbling cinemactor; and India-born Cinemactress Anna Kashfi (real name: Johanna O'Callaghan), 23; both for the first time; in Eagle Rock, Calif, (see PEOPLE...