She had no idea that he was looking to fill any particular film part, however, but remembers that Kazan set up the scenario with Brando which brought out surprising emotions:

She is notable for being the first black female director produced by a major Hollywood studio ( MGM ), for A Dry White Season ; as well as being the only female filmmaker who directed Marlon Brando whom she brought back to the screen after a gap of nine years.

Brando won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but turned down the Oscar, becoming the second actor to refuse a Best Actor award ( the first being George C. Scott for Patton ).

At the 1973 Academy Awards ceremony, Brando refused to accept the Oscar for his performance in The Godfather.

In a 2007 Best Life article, praising his performance in On the Waterfront, Rob Reiner wrote: " Marlon Brando gives the single greatest performance ever.

To some critics, Brando gives the " best performance in American film history ," playing an ex-boxer, Terry Malloy, who is persuaded by a priest to inform on corrupt unions.

Steven Seagal earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actor for his performance in the film, but lost against Marlon Brando for The Island of Dr. Moreau.

His main acting rival, Marlon Brando, was so moved by Clift's performance, that he voted for Clift to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, and was sure that he would win.

Sacheen Littlefeather is a Native American activist who donned Apache dress and presented a speech on behalf of actor Marlon Brando, for his performance in The Godfather, when he boycotted the 45th Academy Awards ceremony on March 27, 1973, in protest of the treatment of Native Americans by the film industry.

Crowther calls Dean's performance a " mass of histrionic gingerbread " which clearly emulates the style of Marlon Brando.

Dave Kehr of The Chicago Reader wrote: " Legions of Brando impersonators have turned his performance in this seminal 1954 motorcycle movie into self-parody, but it's still a sleazy good time.

He was most famously portrayed by Marlon Brando in the play's initial Broadway performance as well as the 1951 film adaptation.

Vincent Canby's review in the May 20, 1976 New York Times cited " an out-of-control performance " by Brando.

Brando was so dedicated in his performance during shooting that Gielgud offered to direct him in a stage production of Hamlet, a proposition that Brando turned down.

A 24-year-old Brando as Stanley Kowalski on the set of the stage version of A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) | A Streetcar Named Desire, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1948

Brando achieved stardom, however, as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Elia Kazan.

" Similarly, Louie Kemp, in his article for Jewish Journal, wrote: " You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in " Apocalypse Now ," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most.

The project was originally to be directed by Stanley Kubrick, but, due to irreconcilable differences with Brando, he was replaced by Brando himself.

A biography, Female Brando: the Legend of Kim Stanley ( 2006 ), by Jon Krampner, was published by Back Stage Books, a division of Watson-Guptill.

According to Jon Krampner's biography Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley, Forbes and Attenborough had initially encountered difficulty in casting the role of Myra.

It was originally planned to be directed by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay by Sam Peckinpah but studio disputes led to their replacement by Brando and Guy Trosper.

She played Blanche ( on the road and on Broadway ) opposite at least four different Stanley Kowalskis, including Anthony Quinn and Marlon Brando.

Through interviews with her and contemporary criticism, the report is that Hagen's Blanche refocused the audience's sympathies with Blanche rather than with Stanley ( where the Brando / Kazan production had leaned ).

Palance's acting break came as Marlon Brando's understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he eventually replaced Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski.

1n 1968, having already appeared in the original New York productions of The Skin of Our Teeth and The Iceman Cometh, Marshall would join Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Julie Harris, Kim Stanley, and 45 others to make up the first group of actors granted membership in the newly formed Actors Studio in 1948.

Stone, Pat Morita, producer Ismail Merchant, Sir John Mills, Richard Pryor, Kay Walsh, Teresa Wright, Suzanne Flon, art director John Box, Jocelyn Brando, producer Ernest Lehman, composer Linda Martinez, director Morris Engel, Barbara Bel Geddes, director Robert Wise, June Haver, Brock Peters, Edward Bunker, Ruth Warrick, Lane Smith, Stanley DeSantis, Jean Parker, Sheree North and Anne Bancroft.

( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!

The tour was directed not by Elia Kazan, who had directed the Broadway production, but by Harold Clurman, and it has been reported, both in interviews by Miss Hagen and observations by contemporary critics, that the Clurman-directed interpretation shifted the focus of audience sympathy back to Blanche and away from Stanley ( where the Kazan / Brando / Tandy version had located it ).

Patrick Spurgeon has played with bands Pancho San, Somehow at Sea, Antenna, Stranded at the Drive In, Ramona the Pest, Brando, Steve Kowalski, Lessick, and has also released solo work as The Phantom Drummer.

Coppola chose Brando over Ernest Borgnine on the basis of Brando's screen test, which also won over the Paramount leadership.

Marlon Brando, Jr. ( April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004 ) was an American screen and stage actor.

" Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth greatest screen legend among male movie stars.

In 1947, Brando was asked to do a screen test for Warner Brothers.

Thomas declined the role and urged the studio to cast Brando at the behest of Coppola and others who had witnessed the screen test.

Eventually, Charles Bluhdorn, the president of Paramount parent Gulf + Western, was won over to letting Brando have the role ; when he saw the screen test, he asked in amazement, " What are we watching?

In the book Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, James Delmont wrote: " Marlon Brando was arguably the finest screen actor of the twentieth century, winning worldwide acceptance as both a movie star of the first rank and as a performer of uncommon skill.

He was antisocial because he knew society was crap ; he was a hero to youth because he was strong enough not to take the crap ... Brando represented a contemporary version of the free American ... Brando is still the most exciting American actor on the screen.

When Marlon Brando did a five-minute screen test for the studio in 1947, he was given fragments of one of the 1940s partial scripts.

The film is noted for giving Brando his first screen role.

He had worked as a cinema usher in his youth and would often watch his screen idols James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Tony Curtis during shifts, studying their acting and learning lines from their movies.

* Appeared on screen with Marlon Brando in the movie The Ugly American ( 1963 ), in which he played Prime Minister Kwen Sai and spoke both Thai and English.

Lettieri acted with some of Hollywood's biggest screen names including Steve McQueen in The Getaway, Charles Bronson in Mr. Majestyk, John Wayne in McQ and both Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in The Godfather.