One of the finest films ever-made, AFI* has rated "The Godfather"(1972) as the 2nd greatest film in World Cinema. Based on Mario Puzo's 1969 novel of the same name, was an influential Gangster genre saga based on a NYC Crime family of Sicilian descent led by the patriarch "Don Vito Corleone" played by Marlon Brando.Though Brando ultimately got the role, Paramount studio executives were unhappy over the director Francis Ford Coppola's initial choice of Brandoplaying the patriarch, since his reputation for being difficult and his moody nature had gained notoriety sullying his career, delaying production on a number of films.
On Coppola's persistent pleading, Paramount chief Stanley Jaffe said that he will yield only if Brando would agree to a pay-packet lesser than his usual fee, agree to a screen-test, and sign a bond insuring he wouldn't delay production. Coppola chose Brando based on the Screen-Test in which Ernest Borgnine too had appeared.
Other main contenders or choice for this role were Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Danny Thomas, Richard Conte, and Anthony Quinn but it was Brando who played it earning an Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role.
*AFI- American Film Institute.
Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.
ABSOLUTELY! She is Defenitely MARLON BRANDO daughter. As I met her in Los Angeles with him in many occassion. Just look at her features. She defenitely resembles her father face. From all Marlon Brando childrens worldwide. She is known to be the best looking & that she really looks like her Father.
YES She is! It's a known fact that ashe was a hidden child from French Polynesia & secretly brought up in Europe & now she is discovered by media all over the women
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Marlon Brandon was Not in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986). He was in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). He played Colonel Kurtz. I do not know how much he was paid for being in Apocalypse Now.
Vito Corleone -> Marlon Brando
Michael Corleone -> Al Pacino
Santino Corleone -> James Caan
No. But Brando was nominated for Best Actor of 1973 for his performance in the controversial Bernardo Bertolucci film. Interestingly, Brando received the nomination the year after he declined his Best Actor statuette for "The Godfather."
Louis Gosset, Jr. won the Oscar for best supporting actor in 1983 for his portrayal of Sgt. Emil Foley in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman".
Yes. He won his first Academy Award for his role. He lost the trophey and "didnt know where the hell it was"
Marlon Brando played Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" and "The Godfather II." In the movies he is often addressed as "Don Corleone." Don is a title of respect, rather than a name, (it is roughly the Italian equivalent of "Sir") that is often used to address the head of a "family" in the Italian Mafia.
You're confusing a phony story about another Hollywood star with John Wayne.
Marlon Brando spoke openly about numerous heterosexual affairs, including one he claimed to have had with Marilyn Monroe. He also fathered eleven children.
In his auto-biography he spoke openly about having engaged in homosexual experiences, although he gave no specifics.
Whether these facts means he was "bisexual" depends on how one defines the term. He might have been heterosexual who engaged in gay behavior for the excitement, not because of long-standing, deep-seated sexual desire.
Brando was born in 1924, and Superman II was released in 1980.
His father was a producer back in those days, So I'm supposing if his parents could afford to pay for a 'Method Acting' coach for Marlon, so they were most likely rich, and as for Marlons children, yes they were rich, their father was one of the greatest on screen actors of all time, Marlon has his own private island, he's also donated money to Michael Jackson's heal the world campaign thingie.
Marlon Brando won 2 Academy Awards for, "Best Actor of the Year."
The first was in 1954, for his role in the movie, "On the Waterfront."
The second was in 1972, for "The Godfather," which he would not accept. The reason he would not accept the award, was because he was protesting the way Hollywood treated American Indians.
I dont think so, though they have never really openly admitted to their animosity.
German, Dutch, Irish, French and English.
Funnily enough, not Italian, despite his role in The Godfather.
He smoked in his earlier year, but he quit in early 1970s. he exercised and jogged
I saw "Blackboard Jungle" on tv recently and could have sworn I saw a very young Robert De Niro in a bit part as a male nurse. Can anyone verify that?
It's a line from On the Waterfront (1954). The exact quote is: "You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it."
Hi spent 5 years in jail for manslaughter , of his pregnant sisters fiancé , who he shot in the head with a .45 . Marlon Brando s first son died in 2008 January aged 49 from complications relating to pneumonia .