Seeing that THE WILD ONE—released Dec 25, 1953—is included in tonight's #FilmForumNYC #Brando100 lineup, my "Wild One" video edit (youtu.be/5BMtnFnwNdM)
To read the original 1951 short story by Frank Rooney, based on the 1947 incident, 'The Cyclist Raid": cinemeccanica.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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Marlon Brando by Philippe Halsman, 1950
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“It is a tribute to Brando’s unceasing dignity that he has striven to seem a true person on film, not gilded by attractiveness or reputation.”
- David Thomson
Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden & Marlon Brando on the set of On the Waterfront
📷 Elliott Erwitt, New York, 1954
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Phil Stern
Marlon Brando at the 1954 Academy Awards Ceremony
Brando won - & accepted - the Best Actor Award, for On The Waterfront
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Marlon Brando & Kim Hunter on stage in A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947. A wonderful photograph by Eliot Elisofon for Life magazine
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Art Shay
Marlon Brando & his dog in Libertyville, Illinois, 1950
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