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  CNN.com - Marlon Brando dies at 80 - Jul 2, 2004
Marlon Brando's personal life was tragic at times, but his performances in "A Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront" and "The Godfather" were triumphs.
Brando's agent, Jay Cantor, said the actor was admitted to UCLA Medical Center on Wednesday evening and that the cause of death was pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that involves scarring of the lungs.
Brando and Schneider were nakedly fearless, both physically and emotionally; the film was rated X upon its release in the United States in 1973.
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  Marlon Brando - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brando's mother was a kind and talented woman, although she suffered from alcoholism and was frequently absent in Brando's childhood.
Brando was a gifted mimic from early childhood and developed a rare ability to absorb the tics and mannerisms of people he played and to display those traits dramatically while staying in character.
Brando claimed that he had improvised much of his dialogue with Rod Steiger in the famous, much-quoted scene ("I could have been a contender.") with him in the back of a taxicab (Kazan disputed this).
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 Marlon Brando: Tutte le informazioni su Marlon Brando su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Marlon Brando: Tutte le informazioni su Marlon Brando su Encyclopedia.it
Marlon Brando - (Omaha, Nebraska 3 aprile 1924 - Los Angeles, California 1 luglio 2004) - è stato un attore cinematografico statunitense di fama mondiale.
Brando debuttò appena ventenne in teatro a Broadway nel 1944 nella commedia dolce-amara I Remember Mama; era appena uscito dallo Actor's Studio di Lee Strasberg ma il successo teatrale gli sarebbe giunto ben presto, nel 1947, con l'interpretazione di Stanley Kowalski in Un tram che si chiama desiderio (Streetcar) di Tennessee Williams.
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Marlon Brando (born April 3, 1924) is an American actor who brought the techniques of method acting to prominence in the films A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s.
Brando was raised in the Omaha, Nebraska area.
Brando was the second actor to refuse an Oscar (the first being George C. Scott).
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 Marlon Brando Relationships
Marlon Brando inspires others to take positive action in their lives by his own enthusiasm and eagerness to meet life's challenges, and he is attracted to people who are adventurous, courageous, and independent.
Marlon Brando is tremendously responsive to beauty and physical appearances, and the physical attractiveness of his partner is very important to him.
Marlon Brando tends to deprive himself of pleasure, friendship, and love, either because he feels he does not deserve it or he thinks it is wrong to enjoy life too much.
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 Marlon Brando - Uncyclopedia
Brando’s own eventual explanation was that he purchased it from the QVC Home Shopping network for the low low price of just $29.99 plus postage.
Brando’s career has died off in recent years, but in March 2005 he once again hit headlines by being the first Oscar nominated actor to remove himself from existence via the grandfather paradox.
Brando was the only known immovable object in existence, but met his demise when he met an unstoppable force in the form of Vin Diesel in an unfortunate automobile accident.
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 Marlon Brando Oscar Winner The Godfather, On the Waterfront, Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Marlon Brando's annotated script of "The Godfather," letters from playwright Tennessee Williams and dozens of other personal items are going up for auction in the latest sale to open the door on the once highly reclusive actor.
MARLON Brando's ailing former maid has slammed the defunct show "Celebrity Justice" with a lawsuit for sneaking into her retirement home last year to callously break the news of Brando's passing to her.
Brando decided that he did not want to make Fan-Tan into a film and he and Cammell were paid $100,000 US by Pan Books to convert the story into a novel.
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 Tetiara Atoll : Information, Travel, & Tourism Guide : A Tahiti Sun Travel Website : Basecamp International
Marlon Brando purchased Tetiaroa during the filming of the movie classic "Mutiny on the Bounty" in 1965.
Over the years, Marlon Brando came to the island a number of times and used it as a getaway from his hectic life in Hollywood.
It is rumored that Brando, who died in 2004, granted his friend Michael Jackson the lifelong use of 2000 m² (a half-acre) on the islet of Onetahi, in the west of Tetiaroa.
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 Marlon Brando Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Neighbor to the late Marlon Brando, actor Jack Nicholson, now owner of the Brando estate, is planning to level the run down lot and plant frangipani flowers...
It is possible the Brando family had been long settled in New York state, being earlier spelt Brandow and originating with a German immigrant Johann Wilhelm Brandau who settled in America in the early 1700s.
Brando also filmed scenes for the movie's sequel, Superman II, but the producers refused to pay him the enormous percentage he was paid for the first movie, so he denied them from using the footage.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Screen legend Brando dies at 80
Brando, who had been ill for some time, was regarded as one of the pivotal actors of the post-war period.
Brando's lawyer, David J Seeley, said the cause of death was being withheld and added that the actor "was a very private man".
The Brando family was in the spotlight at the murder trial of the actor's son Christian, accused of killing the abusive fiance of his sister Cheyenne in 1990.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Obituary: Marlon Brando
Brando's role as the Mafia leader, Don Vito Corleone, restored his reputation, although he suffered the humiliation of having to audition for the part.
Later in his career, Brando was content to accept cameo roles in films such as Superman and Apocalypse Now, until 1989, when he had a small but important role as a South African lawyer in A Dry White Season.
Brando was the master of broody silences and electric eruptions on screen, and had a reputation for being temperamental.
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 TIME 100: Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in the 1972 masterpiece The Godfather
But Brando, that heartbreakingly beautiful champion of the Stanislavskian revolution in acting, never arrived at Hamlet.
Streetcar's director, Elia Kazan, loved this performance because of the way Brando "challenges the whole system of politeness and good nature and good ethics and everything else." It was, of course, this rebelliousness that made Brando a hero to kids growing up in the '50s — and made him a star.
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 The New York Times > Movies > Marlon Brando, Oscar-Winning Actor, Is Dead at 80   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Brando first won acclaim, on Broadway and then in films, younger audiences came to know him as a tabloid curiosity, an overweight target for late-night comics, not as what he once was: a truly revolutionary presence who strode through American popular culture like lightning on legs.
Brando in "The Missouri Breaks," (1976) and was a friend and neighbor for many years, termed him "a genius who was the beginning and end of his own revolution." In an interview yesterday, he said: "There's no one before or since like Marlon Brando.
Brando was the reason that he — and many other actors of his generation — entered the profession.
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On April 3rd 1924, Marlon Brando is born in Omaha, Nebraska, the third and last child of Dorothy Pennebaker Brando and Marlon Brando, Senior; sisters Jocelyn and Frances; descended from Irish immigrants.
In 1943, Brando arrives in New York; he enrolls in a course at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research, directed by German emigrant Erwin Piscator.
In 1946, Brando plays in Maxwell Anderson's Truckline Café, then in George Bernard Shaw's Candida, and in the fall of the same year has a part in A Flag Is Born, a play by Ben Hecht, about the founding of the state of Israel.
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 Marlon Brando Biography, Quotes & Sayville Bio
The movie was never meant to be an actually biography of Marlon Brando, just that his story of a wayward youth was compelling and movie maker Nicholas Ray felt that Brando playing a part similar to himself would bring about the best performance.
Lawrence Grobel's book, "Conversations with Brando.": "In the summer of 1944, as a member of New York's Dramatic Workshop, he performed in Sayville, Long Island, where casting agent Maynard Morris 'discovered' Brando." He was picked for the lead by someone called Miss Terry.
Marlon Brando's has his stage debut at the Dramatic Workshop in Sayville as Jesus in Gerhart Hauptmann's play Hannele.
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 Actor Marlon Brando, 80, Dies (washingtonpost.com)
Marlon Brando, 80, a film star whose blend of sensitivity and savagery brought him acclaim as the greatest actor of his generation and whose tumultuous personal life made him a fascinating spectacle in popular culture, died July 1 in a Los Angeles hospital, the actor's lawyer said today.
Marlon Brando Jr., the youngest of three children, was born in Omaha, Neb., to Dorothy Pennebaker, a vivacious beauty and local actress, and Marlon Brando Sr., an insecticide salesman.
Brando once wrote that he was not so much drawing on his own urges to shape Kowalski as drawing from brutish people he knew.
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 Did Marlon Brando die for the right reasons? - Cinematical
Marlon Brando was the size of a blimp and any growth may have been very hard to find.
Marlon Brando, was like the rest of us in that he was human and had thus led his own choice of lifestyle, which led to all the conditions of his death.
brando at some point in his life became sick of the world he lived in.we know of his views on the injustice's to the native american people, which is a subject that became popular in the 80's and 90's.maybe mr.
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 marlon brando
Brando was considered for "Civil Action" which stars Travolta.
Brando, of all the books written about him, i believe a biography by Nellie Bly to be the best.
Marlon has supposedly agreed to do a TV movie called "Behind The Mask", about a social worker who runs a facility for the mentally disabled.
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 The New York Times > Movies >
By A. Marlon Brando had a talent unequaled in his generation, and his rebellion against it made his long career both exemplary and frustrating.
Brando's anger and humor, and the desperation with which he sets out to insulate himself from the world through this affair, are very special to behold.
By A. Marlon Brando's Terry Malloy, an ex-prizefighter who has become a longshoreman, is a shatteringly poignant portrait of an amoral, confused, illiterate citizen of the lower depths who is goaded into decency by love, hate, and murder.
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 Marlon Brando News
Former fighter, Roger Donoghue, 75, KO'd by Alzheimer's Roger Donoghue, the man who taught Marlon Brando to box for the movie ''On the Waterfront,'' died on Sunday in Greenport, N.Y., at age 75.
Marlon Brando and a star-studded cast, including Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall, give it their all in Francis Ford Coppola's epic gangster movie charting the turbulent and often violent...
Marlon Brando's performance in 'On the Waterfront' as Terry Malloy, the ex-boxer turned informant against the waterfront union mob, is one of the most justifiably hailed in the history of American cinema.
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 Al Weisel - Marlon Brando
Brando got out of his car, and I remember an actor saying, "Marlon, you did it for us!" These were not the Tyrone Power kind of good-looking people.
Marlon said, "Sidney, do you think we ought to let it lay till tomorrow?" And I said, "No, I think if you go back to the house and stew about this tonight, you'll come in tomorrow morning and it'll be twice as big a problem." We went 34 takes.
I said, "Marlon, if I had left that piece of crap in the movie, you would never have that Oscar nomination." When the storm was gone, he reflected on what he did and wrote me a three-page letter.
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 USATODAY.com - Readers' Marlon Brando memories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
At the time, she says Brando was dressed and looked quite shabby, so when other people told her it was Brando, she thought maybe he looked old enough to be Brando's father.
"Marlon Brando, while clearly an actor of unsurpassed magnetism and artistry, was special because he saw acting for what it was: a rather unimportant, self centered, vain profession.
Brando used his celebrity and his people skills to draw a spotlight on social issues again and again, often putting himself at great personal and physical risk for the downtrodden, the voiceless and the persecuted.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-07-02-brando-memories_x.htm   (1855 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Marlon Brando (Penguin Lives): Books: Patricia Bosworth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
There have been many biographies of Marlon Brando, but Patricia Bosworth's succinct portrait, a worthy addition to the always cogent Penguin Lives series, will appeal to those more interested in the legendary performances that revolutionized American acting than in his offscreen shenanigans.
MARLON BRANDO, nicknamed Bud, was born on April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska.
If you want a pleasant overview of the life of Marlon Brando, pleasant meaning perhaps you are a teenage girl and want to reaffirm your crush on him, then Bosworth's book is okay.
www.amazon.com /Marlon-Brando-Penguin-Patricia-Bosworth/dp/0670882364   (1682 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Marlon Brando
Any way you slice it, Marlon Brando was among the greatest silver screen legends the world has ever known.
Marlon's mother, a talented actress, became involved in a local theater, while at home Marlon showed his own propensity towards the thespian arts.
The turning point of Marlon's life seemed to come in 1943, when he was expelled from a military academy.
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 Marlon Brando Timeline and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
in Omaha, Nebraska to Dorothy Pennebaker and Marlon Brando, Sr.
I wanted you to realize that in that minute there were hundreds if not thousands of children hacked to death with a machete, beaten to death by their parents, got typhus and died of a disease." Brando studies his watch.
2005: Marlon's ex-wife Tarita Terpia publishes Marlon, My Love and My Torment, in which she says that Marlon's daughter, Cheyenne, wrote in her diary that her dad used to massage her "as if he wanted me to pretend we were making love".
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