Permissions Acknowledgments
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Hal Leonard Corporation and Holliday Publishing: Excerpt from “Sentimental Journey,” words and music by Bud Green, Les Brown and Ben Homer, copyright © 1944 (Renewed) by Morley Music Co. and Holliday Publishing. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Corporation and Holliday Publishing, administered by Songwriters Guild of America.
Molly Haskell: Excerpts from Molly Haskell’s series on Marlon Brando from The Village Voice, June 14–August 30, 1973. Reprinted by permission of Molly Haskell.
Henry Holt and Company, LLC: Excerpt from “A Semi-Revolution” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem, copyright © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright © 1942 by Robert Frost, copyright © 1970 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Miriam Altshuler Literary Agency: Excerpt from “The King Who Would Be Man” by Budd Schulberg (Vanity Fair, March 2005), copyright © 2005 by Budd Schulberg. Reprinted by permission of Miriam Altshuler Literary Agency, on behalf of Budd Schulberg.
Random House, Inc.: Excerpts from Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey, copyright © 1994 by Marlon Brando. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
Photographic Credits
Image 1: Marlon Brando, age 8: Getty Images
Image 2: Brando and sisters, age 13: The Kobal Collection
Image 3: Brando and sisters: The Kobal Collection
Image 4: Brando as Stanley Kowalski with Jessica Tandy as Blanche DuBois: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Image 5: Brando rehearsing for The Men: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Image 6: Brando as Mark Antony: MGM/The Kobal Collection
Image 7: Brando in The Wild One: Columbia/The Kobal Collection
Image 8: Brando and Montgomery Clift: Columbia/The Kobal Collection
Image 9: Brando with Elia Kazan: Columbia/The Kobal Collection
Image 10: Brando in On the Waterfront: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Image 11: Brando and cat: Getty Images
Image 12: Brando and Marilyn Monroe: The Kobal Collection
Image 13: Brando in The Teahouse of the August Moon: MGM/The Kobal Collection
Image 14: Brando with first wife Anna Kashfi: The Kobal Collection
Image 15: Brando in The Young Lions: 20th Century–Fox/The Kobal Collection
Image 16: Brando with Anna Magnani in The Fugitive Kind: United Artists/The Kobal Collection
Image 17: Brando in One-Eyed Jacks: Paramount/The Kobal Collection
Image 18: Brando with second wife Movita Castaneda: Getty Images
Image 19: Brando with third wife Tarita Teriipaia: Getty Images
Image 20: Brando at a civil rights rally in Washington, D.C.: Getty Images
Image 21: Brando with Charlie Chaplin: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Image 22: Brando in Burn! (Queimada): United Artists/The Kobal Collection
Image 23: Brando and cat on the set of The Godfather: Paramount/The Kobal Collection
Image 24: Brando as Vito Corleone: Paramount/The Kobal Collection
Image 25: Brando with Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris: Prod Europee Asso/Prod Artistes Assoc/The Kobal Collection
Image 26: Brando with Jack Nicholson in The Missouri Breaks: United Artists/The Kobal Collection
Image 27: Brando and George C. Scott in The Formula: MGM/The Kobal Collection
Photo research by Villette Harris
A Note About the Author
Stefan Kanfer’s books include The Eighth Sin, A Summer World, The Last Empire, Serious Business, Groucho, and Ball of Fire. He was a writer and editor at Time for more than twenty years, and was their first bylined film critic, a post he held from 1967 to 1972. A Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and recipient of numerous writing awards, Kanfer is currently in the Distinguished Writer program at Southampton College, Long Island University. He divides his time between New York and Cape Cod.
Also by Stefan Kanfer
The Voodoo That They Did So Well: The Wizards Who Invented the New York Stage
Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America
Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx
Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story
The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World
A Summer World: The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the Days of the Ghetto to the Rise and Decline of the Borscht Belt
The International Garage Sale
Fear Itself
The Eighth Sin
A Journal of the Plague Years
This Is a Borzoi Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright © 2008 by Stefan Kanfer
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kanfer, Stefan.
Somebody: the reckless life and remarkable career of Marlon Brando / by Stefan Kanfer.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(a Borzoi Book)
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN: 978-0-307-27040-5
1. Brando, Marlon. 2. Actors—United States—Biography. I. Title.
PN2287. B683K36 2008
791.4302'8092—dc22
[B] 2008010344
eISBN: 978-0-307-27040-5
v3.0
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