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Marlon Brando was a one off, a true rebel and outsider. When he died of heart failure in 2001, at the age of 80, television and newspapers were filled with tributes for weeks. Along with James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, he is a true icon of movie history.
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The late Hollywood actor Marlon Brando starred in the 1953 film “The Wild One,” one of the most influential of the movies portraying 1950s rebellion. Brando played Johnny, the ultra cool, ultra worldly leader of a motorcycle gang that creates a disturbance in a quiet town. The movie was banned in England until 1968 because of its controversial nature.
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A collection of personal effects from Brando's estate fetched $2,378,300 at a June 30, 2005 auction at Christie's New York. His annotated script from The Godfather (1972) was bought for a world record $312,800. "Godfather" memorabilia were the most sought-after items at the 6.5-hour auction, which attracted over 500 spectators and bidders and multiple telephone bids. Brando's annotated film script originally was figured to sell at between $10,000 and $15,000, but brought more than 20 times the high end of the pre-auction estimate. The previous record for a film script bought at auction was $244,500 for Clark Gable's Gone with the Wind (1939) script, which was auctioned at Christie's New York in 1996. A letter from "Godfather" writer Mario Puzo to Brando asking him to consider playing the role of Don Corleone in the movie version of his novel was bought for $132,000.
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Brando was born in the American heartland Omaha, Nebraska. In 1935 his parents separated, and his mother moved with her three children to Santa Ana in Orange County, California. In 1937 his parents reconciled, and the family moved to Libertyville, Illinois, north of Chicago near Lake Michigan. He was of Dutch, French, English and Irish stock; the original family name was Brandeau. His mother, a kind and talented woman with a drinking problem, was involved in local theater, and this first interested him in stage acting. Brando was a gifted mimic from early childhood and developed a rare ability to absorb the tics and mannerisms of people he played and to display those traits dramatically while staying in character.
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In the late 1980s Brando returned to the cinema after a long absence, but the films were no better. The Freshman (1989) was an inferior comic retread of his work in The Godfather; and in 1992 he played Torquemada in Christopher Columbus - The Discovery, the feebler of two weak movies made to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's first landing in America. His last films were Don Juan de Marco in 1994 and a remake of The Island of Dr Moreau in 1996. An Irish comedy, Divine Rapture, with Brando as a Roman Catholic priest, was abandoned in 1995 after two weeks' shooting. In 1999 he appeared in a film called Free Money, a comedy made exclusively for the Sky Premier television channel.
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The incongruity of a seder, with Marlon Brando reading the haggadah followed by a Bob Dylan serenade, would have made for a good Fellini movie. Needless to say, everyone was both shocked and thrilled by this unusual Hollywood-style Passover miracle. The entire shul came by to shake both Marlon and Bob's hands and they actually paused and spent time with everyone.
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