Marlon Brando was born on April 3 rd 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska, the third and last child of Dorothy Penne baker Brando and Marlon Brando, Senior. He had two sisters Jocelyn and Frances and was descended from Irish immigrants. In 1935, his parents separated, and his mother moved with her three children to Santa Ana in Orange County, California. Two years later, in 1937, his parents were reconciled again, and the family moved to Libertyville, Illinois, north of Chicago near Lake Michigan. (Bosworth, 2004) In 1940, he was sent to a military boarding school – Shattuck Military Academy in Fairbult, Minnesota, from which he was eventually expelled for insubordination. In 1943, Brando relocated to New York City to study the Stanislavsky method under Stella Adler.
(Editor, 2004) Brando’s, first film was Fred Zinnemann’s The Men in 1950. In 1951, he played in A Streetcar Named Desire. The role he performed in that movie earned him the first of four consecutive Best Actor Academy Award nominations. He followed up with impressive, very individualistic performances as a Mexican revolutionary in Viva Zapata in 1952 and as Marc Anthony in Joseph L Mankiewicz’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in 1953.
(Malt in, 2004) In 1954, he performed in On the Waterfront, as a washed-up boxer. His great performance in the movie won him an Academy Award. In 1956, he performed in Sayonara, for which he garnered another Oscar nomination. (Editor, 2004) In 1957, he married Anna Kash fi but unfortunately their marriage only lasted for two years. In 1962, he married Mi vta but their marriage also did not last for a long time, and they divorced in 1963.
The Essay on Actors And Actress Brando Grace Taylor
In the 50 s, several things happened to shock and awe the entertainment business; such as the invention of the teleprompter, TV's first soap opera, "The Little Rascals" TV show, and the "I Love Lucy" TV show. But the most important thing about the entertainment in the 50 s was the actors and actresses. Through out the 50 s there were hundreds of actors and actresses. To name a few Vivien Leigh, ...
Some of his movies in 60’s were, Mutiny On The Bounty in 1962, The Ugly American in 1967, and Reflections in a Golden Eye in 1967. (Editor, 2004) The Brando renaissance began with 1972’s The Godfather. Against the objections of Paramount, director Francis Ford Coppola cast him to play the aging head of a Mafia crime family. Brando was brilliant, delivering his best performance in well over a decade. His great performance in The Godfather won him another Academy Award.
(David Thomson) Brando did not appear on screen for three years, finally resurfacing in The Missouri Breaks in 1976 opposite Jack Nicholson. His next appearance, in Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now, was largely incoherent, while for 1980’s The Formula, he appeared in only three scenes. For a decade, he did not perform in any movies. Only in 1989 he did a project appeal to Brando’s deep political convictions, and he co. -starred in the anti-Apartheid drama A Dry White Season, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role as an attorney. (Ankeny, 2004) In 1990 his son, Christian, killed the lover of Brando’s pregnant daughter, Cheyenne.
After a long legal battle Christian was found guilty of murder and imprisoned. Even more tragically, Cheyenne later committed suicide. (Editor, 2004) He appeared in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery in 1992. Brando co-authored his autobiography Songs My Mother Taught Me’ which was published in 1994. In 1998, he appeared in Yves Simoneau’s Free Money, and, in, 2001 he performed in The Score. Through his life he had performed in many great movies such as On The Water Front, in which he played the part Terry.
Terry Mallow is a careless, loving,.
