Brando: The Biography

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From growing up the son of alcoholic, philandering parents to his recent public agony as the father of a convicted killer, Marlon Brando has lived a life beset by personal demons. Behind the myth, beneath his immense fame and fortune, he is a troubled man whom few people really know. For the first time, Brando unveils him whole: from the height of his talents to the depths of his despair; his sexual compulsions, the endless years of psychotherapy, the girlfriends who've committed suicide, his eating disorders, ...
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NY 1994 Hardcover 1st New in fine dust jacket. Hyperion Press, NY, 1994. 1st Edition ed, 1st printing printing, AS NEW/AS NEW, Hardcover, Large 8vo, 1, 118pppgs. Black cloth ... spine, grey boards, gilt spine lettering. A massive book with seven years research and scores of exclusive interviews and never-before-published photographs of Marlin Brando, with a biography that its subject really deserves. With Notes, Bibliography, and Index. ISBN: 0-7868-6063-4. Shipped in a custom box and packed with care. Read more Show Less

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From growing up the son of alcoholic, philandering parents to his recent public agony as the father of a convicted killer, Marlon Brando has lived a life beset by personal demons. Behind the myth, beneath his immense fame and fortune, he is a troubled man whom few people really know. For the first time, Brando unveils him whole: from the height of his talents to the depths of his despair; his sexual compulsions, the endless years of psychotherapy, the girlfriends who've committed suicide, his eating disorders, his notorious psychological manipulations, his lifelong love/hate relationships with his children legitimate and not, his involvement with the radical American Indian Movement, and his controversial seclusion in Tahiti. Gripping, astonishing, and utterly revealing, Brando is both a towering achievement and exactly the biography that its subject so richly deserves.
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Manso's epic profile of Brando reveals a self-destructive personality combined with bursts of idealism and a stunningly uneven film career. (Nov.)
Library Journal
A scandal-loving biographer's dream, Marlon Brando has led a tumultuous life, complete with unhappy childhood, an active and varied sex life, troubled children of his own (son Christian is now in prison for killing daughter Cheyenne's lover), and a long history of eccentric behavior on and off the set. Surprisingly, Brando hasn't caught Kitty Kelley's eye, but journalist Manso (Mailer: His Life and Times, LJ 4/15/85) corrects that oversight with this massive tome. Based on seven years' research, Manso's biography is a treasure trove of juicy details that the star might prefer not to have revealed, but readers hoping for real insight into Brando's acting talent and career may be disappointed. The publicity surrounding Brando's own book-Songs My Mother Taught Me (Random, 1994), which the star is rumored to have penned in retaliation for Manso's work-will guarantee demand for this title as well, but Brando also has some value as the most complete, up-to-date biography currently available.-David C. Tucker, DeKalb Cty. P.L., Decatur, Ga.
Bonnie Smothers
Marlon Brando is an icon of American cinema. He's up there with Chaplin, Garbo, De Niro, Pacino--all those one-named actors (not Cher). In our times, with our inordinate thirst to be entertained by thrashing our icons, the appearance of a tell-all, no-holds-barred biography of Brando is big news. In the first 100 pages, Manso, through interviews with a cast of thousands (not Brando), reveals that Brando's father was an outcast, always fighting for acceptance; his mother was a drunk; and his sister found the father inept. Of Brando himself, we learn that he was both extremely sensitive and a brawler in school; that he used his fists to defend his friend Wally Cox; that he bullied his high-school teachers and was a manic-depressive; and that he was expelled from military school for pranks that would put the characters in "Rebel without a Cause" and "Animal House" combined to shame. In the next 100 pages, in extremely intimate detail, Brando is found guilty of being a lying, filthy, profligate satyr--but a very sensitive one. Organized chronologically in specific time periods or events, from "Omaha: 1893-1930" to "The Shooting: 1990-1994," the text is easy to follow, smoothly incorporating the author's seven years' worth of research. Piling eyewitness account on top of eyewitness account--including testimony from Brando's daughter Cheyenne--Manso develops his theme of Brando as a controller to the point where readers may wonder who did kill Cheyenne's husband, Dag Drollet--her brother (convicted of the crime), her father, or both According to Manso, Brando is so afraid of this book that he is writing his own, "Songs My Mother Taught Me", an autobiography from Knopf scheduled to be published on September 11. [Knopf has refused to distribute galleys to prepublication review media.] Both books are certain to be much discussed in the coming months. Readers bothered by tabloid-style sensationalism may toss Manso's extremely raw book aside as if burned, but others will read it just to find the dirt. Librarians, of course, will be obligated to give the public what it's bound to want.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780786860630
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Publication date: 10/28/1994
  • Edition description: 1st Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 1172
  • Product dimensions: 6.62 (w) x 2.37 (h) x 9.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Peter Manso
Peter Manso

Peter Manso is the author of the definitive biography of Marlon Brando, as well as Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape, which was a #1 Boston Globe bestseller. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Paris Match.

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Table of Contents

Prologue
1 Omaha: 1893-1930 1
2 Evanston: 1930-38 19
3 Libertyville: 1938-41 32
4 Shattuck: 1941-43 63
5 New York - Sayville: 1943-44 98
6 New York - Provincetown: 1944-47 144
7 New York: Offstage: 1945-48 191
8 Streetcar and the Actors Studio: 1947-49 219
9 Hollywood: 1949-53 269
10 Waterfront: 1953-54 349
11 Flailing: 1954-58 381
12 Turning a Corner: 1958-62 468
13 The Sixties (I): 1962-68 556
14 The Sixties (II): 1963-71 648
15 The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris: 1970-73 701
16 The American Indian Movement: 1972-76 768
17 Tahiti: 1972-82 826
18 The Eighties: 1982-89 869
19 The Shooting: 1990-94 923
Notes 1023
Bibliography 1085
Acknowledgments 1095
Index 1099
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