Trivia

1. Marlon on his role of Terry Malloy in On the waterfront: “What I didn’t realize then was that On the waterfront was really a metaphorical argument by Gadg [Director Elia Kazan] and Budd Schulberg: they made the film to justify finking on their friends”.
--Source: Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, Page 194

2. The immortal line “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse” came second in a poll by the American Film Institute to find the most memorable movie quote ever. AFI asked about 1,500 creative industry professionals for their favorite quote.
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3. Director Bernardo Bertolucci (Last tango in Paris) about Brando: “An angel as a man and a monster as an actor”
--Source: Marlon Brando, Page 187

Marlon refused to memorize his lines and used cue cards.

Marlon’s mother Dorothy gave actor Henry Fonda his first job at the stage of the Omaha Community Playhouse in 1923.
--Source: Marlon Brando, Page 3

Marlon has a star on Hollywood Boulevard (Vine street).
It’s located one north of Hollywood Boulevard.

Marlon Brando transferred the use of half an acre of land on his private Pacific island to Michael Jackson “ in consideration of gratitude and affection”. On June 5, 2003, Brando granted Jackson sanctuary on the island he owned for the rest of [Jackson’s] natural life.
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Marlon Brando’s annotated script from The Godfather along with handwritten notes on how he created the Mafia boss Don Corleone, are among hundreds of his personal items that have been sold June 30 2005 in New York (USA) at auction house Christie’s. The Godfather script brought more than $312,000 (20 times its estimated auction price of $10,000 to $15,000). The auction of Brando memorabilia made more than $2.3m in total.
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While filming Viva Zapata! (1952) director Kazan told Brando that Anthony Quinn was bragging to everybody about how much better he had been in A streetcar named Desire (1951). Kazan told Quinn the same about Brando. He wanted for the picture a killing rage between the actors. This worked, but the two actors didn’t speak for fifteen years. Only when Quinn described in a TV show what happened, Brando understood what happened and phoned Quinn to explain the situation.
--Source: Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, Page 0

Marlon Brando is said to have imitated Frank Costello's voice and cadence. Costello was a famous Mafia leader who's vocal chords had been damaged in an unsuccessful operation to remove throat polyps.
--Source: Five Families, Page 98

Marlon was married three times:
Anna Kashfi (1957 - 1959)
Movita Castenada (1960 - 1968)
Tarita Teriipia (1962 - ?).

Writer Truman Capote: “It was if a stranger’s head had been attached to the brawny body”
--Source: Marlon Brando, Page 35

“I’ve never had any respect for Hollywood. It stands for greed, avarice, phoniness, crassness. But when you act in a movie, you act for three months and then you can do what you want for the rest of the year”
--Source: Marlon Brando, Page 79