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Brando's smile : his life, thought, and work / Susan L. Mizruchi.

by Mizruchi, Susan L. (Susan Laura)

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W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

791.43028 B819m

Brando, Marlon.

Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.

Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.

9780393082869 (hc.)

xxxix, 469 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes filmography (pages 365-366), bibliographical references and index.

His smiles -- Lessons of the Midwest -- Manhattan schooling -- Building the repertoire -- The epic mode, 1960-1963 -- Political films, 1963-1969 -- Annus mirabilis, 1972 -- Villains and supermen -- Citizen of the planet -- Lying for a living.

"When people think about Marlon Brando they think of the movie star; the hunk; the scandals. Susan L. Mizruchi finds the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper; the man who consciously used his body and employed the objects around him to create believable characters; the man who used his fame to foster Native American and civil rights. A complex person whose intelligence belies the high-school dropout. Brando's embrace of foreign cultures and outsiders led to brilliant performances in unusual roles -- a gay man, an Asian, and a German soldier -- to foster empathy on a global scale and to test himself. In portraying a fuller Brando, Mizruchi portrays an even more fascinating man"--Provided by publisher.

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