Author: Richard Schickel

Publisher/Date: Pavilion, 2004 1st paperback printing.

Format/Condition: NEW softcover book with French flaps is in fine condition. 192 pages, profusely illustrated with photos. Measures 9 ½ x 11 inches.

Description: Despite poor career choices, reclusiveness, and fading looks, Marlon Brando is still considered by many to be the most influential actor in film history. In this biography, illustrated with 125 black and white photos and film stills, film critic Richard Schickel traces Brando’s career from his birth in the Midwest to alcoholic parents and his discovery of his own talent at Stella Adler’s acting school in New York.

Moving from the early triumphs of A Streetcar Named Desire and On The Waterfront to the emotionally naked Last Tango in Paris, and the uninspired performances of later films like The Island of Dr. Moreau, Schickel’s witty and affectionate portrayal includes sharply observed connections between Brando’s life and changes in the motion picture industry and in the social climate of the latter 20th century.