" I felt I ’ d better go find out where it is ; what it is to be black in this country ; what this rage is all about ," Brando said on the late night ABC-TV talk show Joey Bishop Show.

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:

" Spiegel disliked O ' Toole, having worked with him on Suddenly, Last Summer ( where O ' Toole was an understudy for Montgomery Clift and considered to take over his part after Clift's alcoholism caused problems ), but acceded to Lean's demands after Finney and Brando dropped out.

At age 20, Fonda started his acting career at the Omaha Community Playhouse, when his mother's friend Dodie Brando ( mother of Marlon Brando ) recommended that he try out for a juvenile part in You and I, in which he was cast as Ricky.

The script was given to Marlon Brando around the same time as Sinatra, who still harboured some anger at Brando, since the latter had beaten out Sinatra for the lead role in On the Waterfront.

Historian Sam Staggs writes that " Marlon Brando was the hot, sleek engine on the Actors Studio express ", and called him " embodiment of Method acting ", but Brando was trained primarily by Stella Adler, a former member of the Group Theatre who had a falling out with Strasberg over his interpretations of Stanislavsky's ideas.

Strasberg reportedly once claimed that of all his actor students with whom he had worked, she was the one who stood out above the rest, second only to Marlon Brando.

Turns out she dated Marlon Brando, Gig Young and Ben Gazzara, though she dropped Ben when Rock Hudson showed an interest in her.

Actor Brando was so moved by Palcy's commitment to social change that he came out of a self-imposed retirement to play the role of the human rights lawyer ; he also agreed to work for union scale ($ 4, 000 ), far below his usual fee.

In 1947, Hill joined such other actors as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Julie Harris, as one of the 50 fortunate applicants ( out of approximately 700, interviewed ) to be accepted by the newly created Actors Studio.

Marlon Brando was so moved by her next project, A Dry White Season ( 1989 ), and her commitment to social change that he came out of a self-imposed retirement, agreeing to act in the film for free.

In 2009, Travis Fickett from IGN rated this episode an 8. 3 out of 10, and concluded about it that " It's a bit shocking, perhaps offensive to some, but in the context of murdering mutants and five-assed monkeys created by Brando parodies in Hawaiian moo-moos – it all makes perfect sense.

When Brando informed Huston repeatedly that he needed some more time to think about it, Huston finally came to the conclusion that the star wasn't really interested and looked out for another actor until he finally cast the then relatively unknown Keach.

However, Brando could not go to Rome as there was still a warrant out for his arrest due to the sexual obscenity of his role in Last Tango in Paris.

In spite of the presence of such big names as Marlon Brando, Ringo Starr, and Richard Burton, the film did poorly in America and failed to make an international star out of Ewa.

On June 12, 1973, actor Marlon Brando punched Galella in the face outside a restaurant in Chinatown in New York City, breaking the photographer's jaw and knocking out five of his teeth on the left side of his mouth.

Marvin had a small but memorable role in The Wild One ( 1953 ) opposite Marlon Brando ( Marvin's gang in the film was called " The Beetles "), followed by Seminole ( 1953 ) and Gun Fury ( 1953 ).

The 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando, and after 10 years in which he did not appear in a commercially successful movie, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather ( 1972 ), a role critics consider among his greatest.

In that same year, Brando played the role of Marchbanks with Katharine Cornell in her production's revival of Candida, one of her signature roles.

Brando brought his performance as Stanley Kowalski to the screen in Kazan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for that role, and again in each of the next three years for his roles in Viva Zapata!

Brando won the Oscar for his role as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront.

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?

Brando was slated to reprise his role as Vito Corleone for the final scene of The Godfather Part II in 1974.

In committing to the role of Lisa Fremont in Rear Window, Kelly unhesitatingly turned down the opportunity to star alongside Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, which won her replacement, Eva Marie Saint, an Academy Award.

( 1952 ) which also starred Marlon Brando playing the role of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.

Saint recalls that Kazan selected her for the role after he had her do an improvisational skit with Brando playing the other character.

However, his first major stage success was his role as an awkward suitor of Jessica Tandy in " A Streetcar Named Desire ," which also helped make Brando a star on stage.

Quinn wanted to play the lead role of Zapata but Brando coming off his recent success in the film Streetcar Named Desire was Kazan's first choice.

However his supporting role as Zapata's brother won Quinn an Oscar while Brando lost the Oscar for Best Actor to Gary Cooper in High Noon.

O ' Toole's major break came when he was chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), after Marlon Brando proved unavailable and Albert Finney turned down the role.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

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

Warren Beatty was then considered, as was Marlon Brando, but the role of Sundance eventually went to the lesser-known Redford.

For his role in the film Mutiny on the Bounty, despite being virtually unknown to film audiences, Harris reportedly insisted on third billing, behind Trevor Howard and Marlon Brando.

After several feature film roles, including Sayonara with Marlon Brando, Garner got his big break playing the role of professional gambler Bret Maverick in the comedy Western series Maverick from 1957 to 1960.

Marlon Brando was originally offered the role of Lester Blaine.

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.

He also had ambitions to work in film, like Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochran, and registered for acting classes with Lee Strasburg's Actors ' Studio, where the likes of Marlon Brando and James Dean had trained.

In Songs My Mother Taught Me, Brando claimed he met Marilyn Monroe at a party where she played piano, unnoticed by anybody else there, and they had an affair and maintained an intermittent relationship for many years, receiving a telephone call from her several days before she died.

In the critically acclaimed The Men ( 1950 ), starring newcomer Marlon Brando as a paraplegic war veteran, Zinnemann filmed many scenes in a California hospital where real patients served as extras.

While attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Fonda joined the Omaha Community Playhouse, where many actors ( including his father and Marlon Brando ) had begun their careers.

Magnani worked with Tennessee Williams again in his 1959 film, The Fugitive Kind ( originally titled, Orpheus Descending ) directed by Sidney Lumet, where she played Lady Torrance and starred with Marlon Brando.

Other films during this period include Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess with Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter ( 1953 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), where he played a priest who influenced Terry Malloy ( Marlon Brando ) to testify against mobster-union boss Johnny Friendly ( Lee J. Cobb ).

In 1947, Forsythe joined the initial class of the soon-to-be prestigious Actors Studio, where he met other promising young actors including Marlon Brando and Julie Harris.

) The Academy Awards ceremony was held in Hollywood, where the actor Marlon Brando, a supporter of AIM, asked an Apache actress, Sacheen Littlefeather, to speak at the Oscars on his behalf.

That it shares the same name as this film is acknowledged in dialogue between Donna Hayward and Audrey Horne, where Audrey asks Donna if she has heard of One-Eyed Jacks and Donna responds " Isn't that that western with 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 ).

When he was 10, he moved with his divorced mother, mystery author Eleanor Atkinson, and a younger sister to Evanston, Illinois, where he became close friends with a neighborhood child, Marlon Brando.

Anna appears as a playable character for the Nintendo DS titles, Jump Superstars and Jump Ultimate Stars and is the main playable character in the second mission of the Shaman King world where she fights Dio Brando and Freeza.

He had a minor role in the Hollywood production, The Island of Dr. Moreau, where he shared lines with Marlon Brando, among others.

With O ' Byrne, Monty directed summer stock productions and led acting and speech workshops at The New School in New York City, where her pupils included Marlon Brando, Demi Moore and Tony Curtis.

Scandalized, her family sends her to private school, where she embarks on a psychedelic journey during which she meets a number of strange people, including a sex starved military general ( Walter Matthau ), a doctor who performs public operations ( James Coburn ), a hunchback ( Charles Aznavour ) and a fake Indian guru ( Marlon Brando ).

Mainly known for her work in Yiddish theater, where she was associated with the Yiddish Art Theater movement of the 1920s and 1930s, she also gave one of the first theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor, in Luther Adler's 1946 Broadway production of A Flag Is Born ( written by Ben Hecht and featuring a 22-year-old Marlon Brando, Stella Adler's prize pupil in method acting ).< ref >

Vito Andolini Corleone is a fictional character and the main character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, where he was portrayed by Marlon Brando in The Godfather and by Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II.

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 ).

Brando called the four games in Tampa during the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament where for the first time ever, all four lower seeded teams won in the same venue on the same day.

She is remembered for playing the title character in the cult film Candy where she appeared alongside such stars as John Huston, Ringo Starr, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, Richard Burton and Marlon Brando.

During filming, James Mason became concerned that Brando was stealing the audience's sympathy away from him and his character, Brutus, so Mason appealed to Mankiewicz, with whom he had bonded earlier while making the film 5 Fingers, requesting that the director stop Brando from dominating the film and " put the focus back where it belongs.