Best marlon brando biography
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The 15 most fascinating revelations in The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando couldn't have just been somebody—he was somebody. A fact taken ganska literally in the title of the new biography offering unprecedented insight into the legendary actor's life.
In The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando, William J. Mann uses painstaking years of research, conversations with those who knew Brando best, and his own knack for delving into the lives of Hollywood luminaries to offer fans up a staggeringly comprehensive tale of Brando's life. While many of the stories will be familiar to those who love Brando, from his prankster antics on set, to his decision to stuff his mouth with tissues in The Godfather, there are plenty of gems to be discovered.
The Contender is on shelves now and has plenty to offer readers, but here are 15 favorite tidbits from the new biography.
1. Marlon Brando hated ‘The Method’
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“If I hadn’t been an actor, I’ve often thought I’d have become a con man and wound up in jail.”
So writes the iconic Marlon Brando in his autobiography, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, co-written by Robert Lindsey. The smoldering star of A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, The Godfather, and Last Tango in Paris, Brando redefined what it meant to be an actor and a star.
Yet the man behind the star is a much more slippery affair. Songs My Mother Taught Me reads in part as an apologia from a charming, brilliant, curious, deeply eccentric man who claims he used to be angry, used to be bad to women—without offering much proof of his professed transformation.
Brando refused to write about his wives or his eleven children, and uses pseudonyms for the romantic partners he does discuss—meaning that we don’t hear about his alleged relationships with the likes of Richard Pryor, Shelley Winters, Christian Marquand, and Ursula Andress. Though he can’t resist adm
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