Brando made the Top Ten Money Making Stars, as ranked by Quigley Publications ' annual survey of movie exhibitors, three times in the decade, coming in at number 10 in 1954, number 6 in 1955, and number 4 in 1958.

Brando made the following comment about his sex life in an interview with Gary Carey, for his 1976 biography The Only Contender, " Homosexuality is so much in fashion it no longer makes news.

In the aftermath of the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Brando made one of the strongest commitments to furthering King's work.

* William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, and the films made from these two plays ( played by Marlon Brando and Robert Speaight, respectively ).

He cast him again in the film version in 1951, which made Brando a star and won 4 Oscars, and was nominated for 12.

In 1951, after introducing and directing one of the Actors Studio's brightest young talents, Marlon Brando, in the stage version, he went on to cast him in film version of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, which made Brando a star and won 4 Oscars, being nominated for 12.

However, Brando was not auditioning for Rebel Without a Cause and there was no offer of any part made by the studio.

The classic American Perfecto motorcycle jacket with epaulets and diagonal zipper, made famous by Marlon Brando in The Wild One, ( 1954 ) was invented in 1928 by Irving Schott, of Schott NYC in New York City.

Baldwin also made a prominent appearance at the Civil Rights March on Washington, D. C. on August 28, 1963, with Belafonte and long time friends Sidney Poitier and Marlon Brando.

She has made few films since, the best-known being Don Siegel's The Black Windmill ( 1974 ), Nijinsky ( 1980 ), Priest of Love ( 1981 ), Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 ), Federico Fellini's E la Nave Va ( And the Ship Sails On 1983 ), A Dry White Season ( 1989 ) with Marlon Brando and Nuns on the Run ( 1990 ; a rare comedic role ).

In the 1950s Samuel Goldwyn turned to making a number of musicals including the 1952 hit Hans Christian Andersen ( his last with Danny Kaye, with whom he had made many others ), and the 1955 hit Guys and Dolls starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine, which was based on the equally successful Broadway musical.

The turning point came in 1972, as he first directed Marlon Brando in The Nightcomers, a prequel to The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, then made his earliest efforts with box office star Charles Bronson in Chato's Land, recounting a mixed race American Indian fighting with Whites, and The Mechanic, a thriller in which professional assassins are depicted.

In 1963 the book was made into a movie directed by George Englund and starring Marlon Brando.

A similar move was made two years later in Superman Returns ( 2006 ) with Marlon Brando.

Likewise, for the Latin America version the main character was called Brando Drummond and the carrier " Gran Dragon del Espacio ") who was drafted for the job because his latent psychic powers made him the only one capable of doing so, all other similarly empowered candidates having been assassinated by alien agents with he himself having been injured in an attack that ended his sports career.

This story made up the basis of the plot of the 1953 film, The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando.

After serving four years in the Naval Reserve, Hill made his first New York stage appearance in Ben Hecht's A Flag Is Born in 1946, which also featured a young Marlon Brando.

Clift and Brando, who was also born in Omaha, had reputations as Hollywood rivals because of their rapid rise to stardom and similar acting styles.

In the current comics, however, the shield is the Kryptonian symbol for " hope ," and not only is it worn by Jor-El in a similar manner to Brando of the first feature film, but it adorns all manner of Kryptonian flags, clothing, spaceships, and equipment.

A similar story structure was used in Gillo Pontecorvo's non-Western Burn !, with Marlon Brando playing William Walker ( filibuster ), which takes place on a fictional Portuguese island colony in the Caribbean in the 19th century.

Set on an oceanliner, it was to star Marlon Brando as an American ambassador, and Sophia Loren as a beautiful stowaway found in his cabin.

There was disagreement between Paramount and Coppola on the issue of casting ; Coppola stuck to his plan of casting Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone, though Paramount wanted either Ernest Borgnine or Danny Thomas.

After pleading with the executives, Coppola was allowed to cast Brando only if he appeared in the film for much less salary than his previous films, perform a screen-test, and put up a bond saying that he would not cause a delay in the production ( as he had done on previous film sets ).

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

A biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker ' 48, Coppola had originally conceived the project as a musical with Marlon Brando after the release of The Godfather Part II.

Spacey is well known in Hollywood for his impressions as when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio he imitated, at host James Lipton's request: James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

Brando had a significant impact on film acting.

Brando directed and starred in the cult western film One-Eyed Jacks that was released in 1961, after which he delivered a series of box office failures beginning with the non-success of the 1962 film adaptation of Mutiny on the Bounty.

Brando failed to capitalize on the momentum of his revitalized career, taking a long hiatus before appearing in The Missouri Breaks ( 1976 ), a box office bomb.

There is a story in which Adler spoke about teaching Brando, saying that she had instructed the class to act like chickens, then added that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on them.

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 used his Stanislavski System skills for his first summer-stock roles in Sayville, New York, on Long Island.

Falk was proud to tell people that Marlon Brando turned down an offer of $ 10, 000 per week on Broadway, in favor of working on Falk's play in Boston.

In the 1960s, Brando starred in films such as One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ), a western that was the only film he ever directed ; Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Chase ( 1966 ), and Reflections in a Golden Eye ( 1967 ), portraying a repressed gay army officer.

In 2004, Brando signed with Tunisian film director Ridha Behion and began pre-production on a project to be titled Brando and Brando.

Brando and Kashfi had a son, Christian Brando, on May 11, 1958 ; they divorced in 1959.

Castaneda had appeared in the first Mutiny on the Bounty film in 1935, some 27 years before the 1962 remake with Brando as Fletcher Christian.

Christian Brando died of pneumonia at age 49 on January 26, 2008.

Brando eventually had a now-closed hotel built on Tetiaroa, which went through many redesigns as a result of changes demanded by Brando over the years.

" On Jackson's 30th anniversary concert, Brando gave a speech to the audience on humanitarian work which received a poor reaction from the audience and was unaired.

" Larry King, who is Jewish, replied, " When you say — when you say something like that you are playing right in, though, to anti-Semitic people who say the Jews are —" at which point Brando interrupted.