Although he appeared in a few films none of his performances came close to his earlier achievements. During that time period Brando became involved in several crusades for civil rights for the American Indians, and in several other causes. He appeared to have lost his zest for his acting career. Brando was able to disprove his critics who claimed his illustrious acting career was over. Brando performed brilliantly and was nominated by the Academy for Best Actor and he won handily.
True to his nature as a rebel he turned down the award and boycotted the Academy Award Ceremony. He continued to appear in a number of films but usually as a supporting actor.
The last film he appeared in as an actor was in , when he was 77 years old. His first marriage was to Anna Kashfi in The marriage lasted for two years until In he married Maria Movita Castenada, a Mexican actress. The year in which he married Terripia is unclear since his marriage to Castenada was not annulled until He stayed there for almost three years, but he refused to respect authority and caused so much trouble that he was expelled in his senior year.
Because of his behavior, Brando never graduated from high school. He has said that not having a high school education and diploma has always been a source of embarrassment for him. Brando returned to his family and ended up taking a job digging ditches. Finally his father offered to finance his education. Brando moved to New York, where one of his sisters was trying to become an actress.
He began to study with the famous acting coach Stella Adler at the Actors' Studio, a very important acting school. While at the Actors' Studio, Brando learned the "method approach. Older acting systems relied heavily on teaching actors physical gestures as the way to express themselves.
Brando made his Broadway debut in I Remember Mama in Before James Dean — , Marlon Brando popularized the jeans-and-T-shirt look, as a movie idol during the early s. Hollywood was impressed with Brando, and in he made his motion picture debut as a severely injured war veteran in The Men.
The movie was both a popular and a critical success. Brando played a variety of different characters over the next several years. In his next movie, Viva Zapata! Brando won his first Academy Award in for his role in On the Water-front, a hard-hitting look at New York City labor unions a workers' group organized to help workers receive fair wages.
From to people in the movie industry always voted Brando as one of the top ten film attractions in the nation. During the s, however, his career had more downs than ups. The movie was a disaster at the box office. It failed to earn even half of its enormous budget the money it cost to make it.
Brando's excessive self-indulgence spoiled behavior reached its height during the filming of this movie. He was criticized for his tantrums fits of bad temper on the set and for trying to alter the script. Off the set he ate too much and would not associate with the cast and crew. For the rest of the s Brando acted in several movies, but none of them was considered to be of very high quality.
Brando's career was reborn in with his portrayal of Mafia a secret, criminal organization leader Don Corleone in The Godfather. He won his second Oscar for that role, but he refused to accept it because of how he felt Hollywood showed Native Americans in its movies. A famous scene in which Brando picks up a glove dropped by co-star Eva Marie Saint and puts it on his own hand was improvised in rehearsal, and director Elia Kazan kept it for the filming.
The role won Brando his first Academy Award. They divorced after two years. You may also like: 40 surprising celebrity "where are they nows". Brando married his second wife , American actress Movita Castaneda, in They had two children—Miko and Rebecca. Moving to the other side of the camera, Brando directed one movie—"One-Eyed Jacks" in —with himself and Karl Malden in major roles.
They were married for 10 years and had two children—Simon and Cheyenne. Martin Luther King Jr. You may also like: best movies of all time. Falling in love with the South Pacific, Brando bought Tetiaroa , a square-mile island in and owned it for the rest of his life. He dreamed of forward-thinking plans for his property like installing solar power, building habitats for wildlife, making algae into a food supplement, and creating a getaway for artists and thinkers. Tetiaroa was badly damaged by a hurricane in Today, the island is the site of a high-end ecologically minded resort.
Hollywood studio executives were not thrilled at hiring the difficult actor, but director Francis Ford Coppola had Brando take a screen test that so impressed them that they changed their thinking. You may also like: monumental movies from film history and why you need to see them. The two clashed over how the very overweight actor would appear on screen, and Brando succeeded in appearing in dark scenes that did not reveal the extent of his weight gain.
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