the brilliance of brando

A blog dedicated to the greatest actor of all time. America's original bad boy, and maybe the biggest primo uomo. When talking about acting, there is before Brando and after Brando.

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How to Flirt by Terry Malloy

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Karl Malden broke his nose twice playing high school football in Gary, Indiana, and the result made a natural supporting actor of him. Marlon Brando broke his nose during an informal boxing match in the boiler room of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre while he was acting in A Streetcar Named Desire. The play’s producer Irene Selznick begged him to have a cosmetic surgeon repair the damage. Tennessee Williams lamented the destruction of “those classic looks.” Brando refused to have the damage repaired, and years later Selznick admitted “that broken nose made his fortune. He was too beautiful before.”  The lifelong friendship between the actor who played the bestial Stanley Kowalski and the one who played his kinder, gentler pal, Mitch, began during the 1947-1949 run of Tennessee Williams’s play. Karl Malden died July 1 ,2009 at the age of 97, five years to the day after Marlon Brando died on July 1, 2004, at the age of 80.    –Stuart Mitchner

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An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

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Marlon Brando photographed by Edward Clark, 1949.

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Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

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i love ur blog have to say i went through it for hours and seriously didn't fail to bring a smile on my face thanks for keeping brando alive u da bomb

Thank you so much! That means a lot 😊

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I honestly love Marlon a little chunky. He had an incredible ass when he was in One-Eyed jacks

Dat booty was magical I agree

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“Looking at the photograph you get the feeling you are intruding in a way, that you are looking at something private, and that is exactly what I believe Avedon was attempting to do with this photo. He is taking you past the smiles and camera flashes into the personal lives and emotions of his subjects.”

Marlon Brando photographed by Richard Avedon, NYC, 1951.

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Marlon Brando photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1946, one year before he set the world on fire in A Streetcar Named Desire

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UPDATE

Hey guys! Sorry I've been MIA for so long it's been a really shitty year & I've been without access to my main computer (aka Brando central). I've been seeing some awesome content floating around though!

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Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

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Marlon Brando, circa 1951.

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Marlon Brando during the rehearsals of “Guys and Dolls” Circa, 1955. 

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A Candid of Marlon Brando and son Christian Devi Brando C.1958.

“In a long conversation about acting in the early 1980s, Brando told Michael Jackson: “The day Christian [Brando’s first son] was born I said to myself my father is never going to come near him. I didn’t want my father because of the damage he did to me to get near Christian, and it was a mistake because my father by that time had changed. But I hadn’t changed. But by the time he died I forgave him and expressed love for him… . I realized I can’t live off of hatred, you can’t do it, you have to live off of love. It was so hard for me to give that up.” Brando’s genius was that he learned to make use of that overwhelming rage.” Excerpt from “Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought and Work” By Susan L Mizruchi.

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Marlon Brando between takes during the filming of “Mutiny On The Bounty” Circa. 1962.

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My Favorite Films: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) // dir. Elia Kazan

I don’t want realism, I want magic. Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things, I don’t tell truth. I tell what ought to be truth and if that is sinful, then let me be punished for it.

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On the Waterfront (1954) dir. Elia Kazan