Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1963)

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Applauded Kate Cameron of the N.Y. Daily News: “Brando’s performance is an arresting and deeply moving one. In the first part of the film, he displays a flair for comedy that has been missing in his screen appearances.” The charge that he had come to blows with an extra and had been floored by a punch was proved to be false by columnist Louella Parsons. Wrote Miss Parsons: “I can testify that no matter what is said or printed — Brando says nothing in his own defense. Just recently I ran a story that during the shooting of added scenes for ‘Mutiny’ at M-G-M, an extra had become so annoyed with Marlon that the extra hit him and knocked him down. “Say that about -any other star and I would have had everyone from the thespian to a lawyer on the telephone. It was quite by accident I heard the story of what actually had happened. The extra was quite drunk. All day long he had been going around throwing his arms around Marlon in an old palsy-walsy mood of intoxication. Then with a final lurch of good Have you a special tried and tested recipe which features a “packaged convenience” food as an ingredient? If you have, send it with your name and address to PHOTOPLAY’S MEALTIME MAGIC, P.O. Box 3483, Grand Central Station, New York 17, New York. We will pay $5.00 for each recipe that we publish. fellowship, he had flung himself so heavily on the star they both came down in a heap. “But did I get this simple explanation from Marlon? Not on your life. It came in a letter from another player in the picture who said he was writing to me in the spirit of ‘fair play.’ ” The charge that he checked neither his temperament nor his temper was put into its proper context by director Lewis Milestone, who replaced the original director, Sir Carol Reed, in mid-picture. “The big trouble was lack of guts by management at Metro,” Milestone said. “Lack of vision. When they realized there was so much trouble with the script they should have stopped the whole damned production. If they did not like Marlon’s behavior they should have told him that he must do what they wished or taken him out of the picture. But they just did not have the guts.” Marlon’s side of it Explanations and refutations from many people, but for a long, long time just silence from the accused, Marlon Brando! Then suddenly, in an amazing turnabout, lie began to tell his side of the story — to Joe Hyams, to Dave Jampel, to a Newsweek reporter. Why? Not for his own sake; never just for that. P But because of what the gossips and the studio spokesmen and some columnists had done and were doing to others. To the memory of Marilyn Monroe, for instance. To Liz Taylor, for another. Years before, Marlon had said, “Just because the big shots were nice to me, I saw no reason to overlook what they did to others and to ignore the fact that they normally behave with the hostility of ants at picnics.” Now his own protest was triggered by what “they” had done to Marilyn. Speaking for Marilyn “Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died?” he asked. “Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thoughts, ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it, because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe or that her life was elsewhere. People have nothing in the lexicon of their own experience to know what fabulous success is — they don’t know the emptiness of it. . . . It’s a fraud and a gyp. It’s the biggest disappointment.” In speaking for himself, therefore, he was in a sense speaking for Marilyn and for Liz. In fact, he asserted flatly that he and Liz have been made “scapegoats” in connection with high-budget films which were started without complete scripts. Brando’s refutation of the charges brought covered the following points: On being a scapegoat: “Obviously the studio is going out after me to lay the blame for this fascinating saga of failure at my feet. From the beginning they’ve been blaming me and I’ve been the goat.” On script trouble: “It was started without a script; that was the original sin. . . . If you send a multimillion dollar production to a place when, according to the precipitation records, it is in the worst time of the year, and when you send it without a script, it seems there is some kind of primitive mistake. . . . The reason for all the big failures is the same — no script.” On malingering: “I have never worked harder on a picture in all my life.” On the “firing” of Sir Carol Reed: “Not only the actors, but the director and producer suffer. Carol Reed really suffered, perhaps more than us all. I know that he wasn’t fired. I was in the room. He quit. He said he couldn’t go any further.” On studio behavior: “It’s all so simple. If an actor was working for me and got out of line, I’d get the Screen Actors Guild on the phone. They have the authority to punish actors. They’ve done it before.” On the status of an actor: “An actor is a product like Florsheim shoes or Ford cars — he’s just generally exploited the way any other piece of merchandise is.” On receiving one million dollars plus a half a million “ overtime ” for “Mutiny” “It’s ridiculous!” On the bright side: “There’s only one compensating feature in the year and a half I feel I must write off as an actor — I went to Tahiti.” And he came back from Tahiti, and threw his five million-dollar punch at a magazine for printing a story he claimed was damaging. Marlon Brando finally hit back. Jim Hoffman See Marlon in U-I’s “The Ugly American” and M-G-M’s “Mutiny on the Bounty.” If you missed him in Las Vegas catch this new talent at home. Tune him in on your local CBS Radio Station. 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