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Oct 3, 2022 · Sacheen Littlefeather, who emerged onto the national scene when she appeared in Marlon Brando's stead to decline his Academy Award for The Godfather, died on Sunday at 75, reports Variety.
- Brigit Katz
Aug 16, 2022 · At the 45th Academy Awards in 1973, Littlefeather, aged 26, walked up to the stage to decline Brando's best actor Oscar on his behalf, becoming the first person to make a political...
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The two had struck up a friendship about a year earlier, forged out of his interest in Indigenous rights. Littlefeather was working for a local San Francisco radio station at the time and was head of the Affirmative Action Committee for the city's branch of the Screen Actors Guild. They had a mutual friend — her neighbour, Francis Ford Coppola — an...
Littlefeather said they laughed like old friends and spoke for an hour, and then kept right on talking regularly in the ensuing weeks and months. "It wasn't about film and it wasn't about the industry per se. It was just about our interests together in the Native American stereotype." At the time, she was preparing reports for the U.S. Federal Comm...
But there was the question not just of what she would say, but what she would wear. She told him she had some Levi's and a top — or a traditional buckskin dress. That was it. "So in a way, you can say that he chose my outfit." As for the speech, Littlefeather says Brando gave her about eight pages, hurriedly typed by his secretary a mere hour befor...
She forged another meaningful friendship some years later. After going on to work in Native American health care, she became one of the founding members of the American Indian AIDS Institute in San Francisco in the 1980s. "We knew that our people were dying from AIDS," she said, and that people like her were the only ones who were going to help the...
Nov 13, 2009 · On March 27, 1973, the actor Marlon Brando declines the Academy Award for Best Actor for his career-reviving performance in The Godfather. The actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather attended...
- Missy Sullivan
Oct 3, 2022 · In 1973, riding high off the success of The Godfather, actor Marlon Brando used his platform to give a voice to Native Americans. Not only did he refuse the Academy Award for Best Actor, which he won for his role as Don Vito Corleone, but he sent Sacheen Littlefeather to the ceremony in his place.
Mar 2, 2023 · Few Academy Awards ceremonies have been as eventful as the one held in 1973, when Marlon Brando sent Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he was rejecting his...
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Sep 27, 2022 · Then, the day before the 1973 Oscars, Brando summoned Littlefeather to his house in L.A. and explained that, in the likely event that he won Best Actor, he wanted her to represent him.
