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...Eyed Jacks (Pennebaker; Paramount). Marlon Brando has often announced that mere acting ("a childish thing ... by and large the expression of neurotic impulse'') is too small a bottle for his creative genie. In 1958 he got a chance to put aside childish things: he launched his first independent picture, planned as a nice, safe, medium-budget ($1,800,000) western. Producer: Brando. Star: Brando. Director: Stanley (Sparta-cits') Kubrick. Kubrick obviously had to go. and he soon did, leaving Brando with the megaphone and, as one Paramount saddle." executive put it, "Stanislavsky in the First...
...dancer's flair for movement. Director Brando, however, comes off much better than Actor Brando, the Method Cowboy, who incessantly mumbles, scratches, blinks, rubs his nose and sulks. In short. Brando plays the same character he always plays, the only character who seems to interest him: Marlon Brando. A childish thing indeed...
Elizabeth Taylor has been signed on as Mary Magdalene. Rumors have Marlon Brando as Judas, Spencer Tracy as Pontius Pilate. But last week Director George Stevens released the biggest casting news of the Hollywood year: Swedish Actor Max von Sydow, 31, has been chosen to play Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told. One of the ablest members of Ingmar Bergman's close-knit film and theater team, Von Sydow was the mysterious hero of The Magician, the God-haunted knight in The Seventh Seal, the avenging father in The Virgin Spring. When the Hollywood offer came, says...
...against falling in love while making a picture. In 1957 before the cameras of Jailhouse Rock, Elvis Presley produced an inguinal heave so seismic that it traveled to his upper jawbone, loosening a tooth cap that fell into his bronchial tube ($2904) During the filming of The Young Lions, Marlon Brando spilled a pot of hot tea in his lap, developed an embarrassing infection ($33.806). Spartacus cost Fireman's Fund $632,197 (against a typical premium of $70,227 on a $4,100,000 policy) when Jean Simmons had an appendectomy, Tony Curtis broke his Achilles tendon and Supergladiator...
After the script, the most urgent problem is casting. Marilyn Monroe has expressed interest in the part of Cecilie, and there are fond hopes of acquiring Marlon Brando for the part of Sigmund Freud. Brando, after all, made his stage debut in I Remember Mama...