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Nov 30, 2017 · Problems arose when Marlon Brando, cast as Walter Kurtz, arrived on set unexpectedly and massively overweight. Brando’s shocking obesity was a bigger problem in the 1970s when fewer people were grossly overweight.
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time, [1] he received numerous accolades throughout his career, which spanned six decades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, one Cannes Film Festival Award, and ...
Nov 22, 2012 · By the mid-fifties, Marlon had become renowned for eating boxes of Mallomars and Cinnamon Buns, and washing his sweet treats down with a quart of milk. Close friend, Carlo Fiore, said Marlon would go on extreme crash diets in the fifties and sixties, but then would lose his willpower.
Oct 7, 2021 · There were just two problems: The studio didn’t want Brando, and Brando didn’t want the role. An excerpt from a new book reveals how flattery, a fake seizure, and a stealth screen test changed ...
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Jul 25, 2015 · Several years ago while lecturing a large group of film students on the cinema of the fifties, the subject of Marlon Brando came up. One of the young men put their had up and asked if he was the actor in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), asking directly if he was the fat one who had behaved so terribly on set. Bowing my head, I admitted that yes ...
Oct 22, 2015 · Listen to Me Marlon — film review: From joyous bedlam to fat and tragedy. Marlon Brando’s own voice tells the story of his life in Stevan Riley’s documentary. Young Marlon Brando ©...
Oct 20, 2008 · In 1980, playing a fat old oil tycoon in “The Formula,” he wore a radio transmitter disguised as a hearing aid; past even the bother of using cue cards, he now had his lines read directly into ...
