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Title: Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
Author: Stefan Kanfer
ISBN: 9781400078042
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher : Stefan Kanfer, acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illuminating appraisal. Beginning with Brando’s turbulent childhood, Kanfer follows him to New York where he made his star-making Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at age twenty-three. Brando then decamped for Hollywood, and Kanfer looks at each of Brando’s films over the years–from The Men in 1950 to The Score in 2001–offering deft and insightful analysis of his sometimes brilliant, sometimes baffling performances. And, finally, Kanfer brings into focus Brando’s self-destructiveness, ambivalence toward his craft, and the tragedies that shadowed his last years.
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