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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...
down into quicksand...
...with a torch. Later, in the wrestling scene between the cunning antagonist and the formidable knight, the pair work their way over to the edge of a cliff. Here, oddly, it is Taylor who gets thrown to the floor of the ravine. Miraculously, he lands in a bed of quicksand; and on hearing his affectionate call, his horse trots over, throws him a rein, and pulls him out. It is certain that no writers in Hollywood, save those with especial creative talent, were permitted to work on the scenario of this film...
...they had, they might have restrained themselves. For, while reasonable men must grant the dicerence between slipping quietly into six yards of quicksand and slipping noisily into two feet of Cambridge slush, the contrast is only one of degree. The result is disturbing in either case...
Hollywood Star Playhouse (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Dana Andrews in Quicksand...