Conversations With Marlon Brando

Author : Lawrence Grobel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981805627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Marlon Brando written by Lawrence Grobel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For ten truly remarkable daysin June 1978, Lawrence Grobel spent every waking minute with legendary actor Marlon Brando and his family on Brando's Tahitian island, Tetiaroa. It was the first time in twenty-five years that Brando, notorious for his reclusive, reticent lifestyle, had granted and extended interview to anyone. Rat press is excited to make Conversations with Marlon Brando available on[c]e more, with new material from Lawrence Grobel added since Brando's death." website.

Author : Lawrence Grobel
Publisher : Cooper Square Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780815410140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Brando written by Lawrence Grobel and published by Cooper Square Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brando discusses many topics including acting, women, Native Americans and corporate America.

Author : Lawrence Grobel
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781562829216
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations With Brando written by Lawrence Grobel and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brando discusses many topics including acting, women, Native Americans and corporate America.

Author : William J. Mann
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062427652
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contender written by William J. Mann and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly Based on new and revelatory material from Brando’s own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before. The most influential movie actor of his era, Marlon Brando changed the way other actors perceived their craft. His approach was natural, honest, and deeply personal, resulting in performances—most notably in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront—that are without parallel. Brando was heralded as the American Hamlet—the Yank who surpassed British stage royalty Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Ralph Richardson as the standard of greatness in the mid-twentieth century. Brando’s impact on American culture matches his professional significance; he both challenged and codified our ideas of masculinity and sexuality. Brando was also one of the first stars to use his fame as a platform to address social, political, and moral issues, courageously calling out America’s deeply rooted racism. William Mann’s brilliant biography of the Hollywood legend illuminates this culture icon for a new age. Mann astutely argues that Brando was not only a great actor but also a cultural soothsayer, a Cassandra warning us about the challenges to come. Brando’s admonitions against the monetization of nearly every aspect of the culture were prescient. His public protests against racial segregation and discrimination at the height of the Civil Rights movement—getting himself arrested at least once—were criticized as being needlessly provocative. Yet those actions of fifty years ago have become a model many actors follow today. Psychologically astute and masterfully researched, based on new and revelatory material, The Contender explores the star and the man in full, including the childhood traumas that reverberated through his professional and personal life. It is a dazzling biography of our nation’s greatest actor that is sure to become an instant classic. The Contender includes sixteen pages of photographs.

Author : Marlon Brando
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307786730
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me written by Marlon Brando and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Marlon Brando’s own story, and his reason for telling it is best revealed in his own words: “I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life, for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent. . . . But now, in my seventieth year, I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.” To date there have been over a dozen books written about Marlon Brando, and almost all of them have been inaccurate, based on hearsay, sensationalist or prurient in tone. Now, at last, fifty years after his first appearance onstage in New York City, the actor has told his life story, with the help of Robert Lindsey. The result is an extraordinary book, at once funny, moving, absorbing, ribald, angry, self-deprecating and completely frank account of the career, both on-screen and off, of the greatest actor of our time. Anyone who has ever enjoyed a Brando film will relish this book. Please note: this edition does not include photos.

Author : Susan L. Mizruchi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244261
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work written by Susan L. Mizruchi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life. When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando’s Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper; the man who consciously used his body and employed the objects around him to create believable characters; the man who loved Emily Dickinson’s poetry. To write this biography, Mizruchi gained unprecedented access to a vast number of annotated books from Brando’s library, hand-edited copies of screenplays, private letters, and recorded interviews that have never before been quoted in a biography. Original interviews with some of the still-living players from Brando’s life, including Ellen Adler, his one-time girlfriend and the daughter of his acting teacher Stella Adler, provide even deeper insight into the complex person whose intelligence belied the high-school dropout. Mizruchi shows how Brando’s embrace of foreign cultures and social outsiders led to his brilliant performances in unusual roles—a gay man, an Asian, a German soldier—to test himself and to foster empathy on a global scale. We also meet the political Brando: the civil rights activist, the close friend of James Baldwin, the actor who declined his Oscar to support Indian rights. More than seventy stunning—and many rare—photographs of Marlon Brando illuminate this portrait of the man who has left an astounding cultural legacy.

Author : James Grissom
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101972777
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Follies of God written by James Grissom and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor. At a low moment in Williams’s life, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old writer, James Grissom, who had written him a letter asking for advice. After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on his behalf to find out if he or his work had mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him. Among the more than seventy women and men with whom Grissom talked were giants of American theater and film: Lillian Gish, (“the escort who brought me to Blanche”), Jessica Tandy (the original Blanche DuBois on Broadway), Eva Le Gallienne (“She was a stone against which I could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper”), Maureen Stapleton, Julie Harris, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, and many more. Follies of God provides dazzling insight into how Williams conjured the dramatic characters and plays that so transformed American theater.

Author : Nancy K. Peardon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988455719
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marlon Brando written by Nancy K. Peardon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A young woman meets Marlon Brando while working as an assistant in her father's Beverly Hills dental office. It's 1976, Brando's a screen legend, . The twenty year old is enraptured by the fifty-two year old star of such classic American films as A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, The Wild One, On the Waterfront, The Godfather, and Last Tango in Paris ... On that day, he and Nancy Peardon embark on an intimate and tempestuous relationship that was to last another twenty-eight years until the actor's death in 2004"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Ron Offen
Publisher : Chicago : Regnery
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brando written by Ron Offen and published by Chicago : Regnery. This book was released on 1973 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Bosworth
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453245022
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marlon Brando written by Patricia Bosworth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the legendary actor “offers a fascinating look into his charismatic genius” (Library Journal). In 1948 Marlon Brando stunned audiences and critics alike with his revolutionary, raw, and improvisational approach to acting. He became a symbol of a new, rebellious generation that was sick of conventions and committed to genuine emotion and unvarnished truth. From his breakout role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire to his mesmerizing portrayal of Don Corleone in The Godfather, he created some of the most memorable characters in American cinematic history. Brando was a paradox—intensely private but using his fame to promote worthy causes, a womanizer who clung to his childhood friends and animals. He was one of the most fiercely independent stars ever. In this book, acclaimed biographer Patricia Bosworth peels away Brando’s many layers, revealing the struggles, triumphs, and relentless ambition that transformed the irrepressible farm boy from Nebraska into a legend of American cinema.