The Fugitive Kind (United Artists) (1960)

PUBLICITY MATERIAL Marlon Brando Marked A “Comer” In First Stage Role (Biographical Feature) Marlon Brando re:urns to the portrayal of a Tennessee Williams’ character in the United Artists release of “The Fugitive Kind’”— his first Williams role since “A Stree‘car Named Desire” catapulted him to world-wide fame. In this, his thirteenth motion pic‘ure now at the ...... Theatre, Brando stars with fellow-Academy Award winners Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward as Val Xavier, the wandering guitarist called “Snakeskin.” Described as “just the best actor in the world today” by renowned Director Elia Kazan, Brando’s Hollywood record of one Oscar and four nominations lends weight to Kazan’s estimation. Brando was a promising but not always employed young actor along Broadway when he hitchhiked his way to success—literally. Summoned by phone call from Kazan to come to Cape Cod and read for a play that Tennessee Williams had written, Brando lacked bus fare. Heading for the highway he stuck out his thumb, arrived at Williams’ home in Cape Cod at six am. the next day and won the “Streetcar” role of “Stanley Kowalski” almost before he began reading. Brando’s maternal ancestors were Irish, and his father’s predecessors were French. Spelling of the family name had been changed from “Brandeau” to “Brando” long before April 3, 1924 when Marlon, Jr., was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He was the third child in the fsmily, the first boy. When Marlon was six the family moved frem Neraska to I[linois, settling first in Evanston and then Libertyville. He attended Lincoln Grzmmar School in Evanston, Jutius E. Lathrop Junior High School in Santa Ana, Calif., and high school in Libertyville, fol lowed by attendance at Shattuck Still FK-P-2 Mat IC Maureen Stapleton, who won an “Oscar” nomination for her first movie role, is now seen with Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward, “‘Osear”? winners all, in Tennessee Williams’ ‘*The Fugitive Kind.” Still FK-P-23 Mat 1B Veteran actor Victor Jory in the shattering role of “Jabe.”’ the cruel, dying brute in Tennessee Williams’ ‘*The Fugitive Kind.” pace 16 Military Academy in Faribault, Minn., a school his father once attended. At Shattuck he won a letter in football, but also injured a knee which was responsible for his Army exemption in World War II. Brando left the military academy before graduation and returned to Libertyville where he got a job digging drainage ditches for two months. Thea, accepting his father’s offer to finance further education in any field Marlon cho3e, the young man decided to try acting. He went to New York and joined the Dramatic Workshop. He was 19, keenly interested in everything he was exposed to, quick to notice and duplicate the mannerisms, gestures and accents of those he met. After a year at the dramatic school, Marlon got his first Broadway ro!e—“Nels” in “I Remember Mama.” The New York critics immediately marked him as a “comer.” Next appearance on the boards for Brando was Maxwell Anderson’s “Truckline Cafe,” under direction of Kazan and acting with friend Karl Malden, both for the first time. His acclaim in thit show led to his assignment as “Marchbanks” in Katharine Cornell’s revival of Shaw’s “Candida.” “A Streetcar Named Desire” followed and the Hollywood producers weren't far behind. Spurning all offers of long-term contracts, Brando finally left “Streetcar” to make his film debut portraying a paraplegic in “The Men,” which the Stanley Kramer Co. produced for United Artists. “The Fugitive Kind” is Brando’s first UA slm since then. The second film Brando made was the Hollywood version of “Streetcar,” resulting in an Oscar nomination. Subsequent pictures were “Viva Zapata” (Oscar nomi nation); “Julius Caesar” (Oscar nomination); “The Wild one”; “Desiree”; “On the Waterfront” (Oscar winner) ; “Guys and Dolls”: “Teahouse of the August Moon”: “Sayonara” (Oscar nomination) ; and “The Young Lions.” Joanne Woodward ‘Persistent Kind’ (Biographical Feature) When Academy Award winner Joanne Woodward told, producers Martin Jurow and Richard Shepherd that “I'll play that part,” they thought she was very nice, and very wrong. The role she referred to was Carol, the wild southern belle in Tennessee Williams’ “The Fugitive Kind,” now at the Theatre and at that time Miss Woodward in her capacity as Mrs. Paul Newman, was expecting an addition to the family. But Joanne was right. When the start of the picture was postponed to facilitate the addition of Marlon Brando to the starring roster, that was also time enough for Elinor Theresa Newman to come into the world. The morning Brando and Anna Magnani reported to director Sidney Lumet for start of “The Fugitive Kind,” Joanne Woodward was there reading Carol’s lines. The acting talents of Joanne Woodward, which have won her the Oscar for “The Three Faces of Eve” and established her as one of the few genuine stars to be developed in recent years, first attracted attention when she was a small town girl in the South. Joanne was the pet of the drama teacher in high school, which impressed her father, who put her in drama school in New York City, which led to TV, stage and movies —in that order. She was born in Thomasville, Ga. on February 27, and after living in various Southern towns her family settled in Greenville, S. C. when she was 15. “Picnic” gave Joanne her first major role on Broadway. Still FK-P-22 Mat 2E Marlon Brando rocketed to fame in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” first in the Broadway version and then on film. Brando is now starring in Williams’ “The Fugitive Kind” with Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward, who also have interpreted Williams’ characters. The film, a United Artists relezse directed by Sidney Lumet opens .......... Attn Gy Peete econ Theatre. Still FK-P-19 Mat 2B Anna Magnani made her American debut in Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo,” winning an Academy Award. She is shown here as she appears currently atthe ........ Theatre in Williams’ “The Fugitive Kind” with Marlon Brando and Joanne Woodward. The film is a Jurow-Shepherd-Pennebaker production directed by Sidney Lumet for United Artists release. Still FK-P-20 Joanne Woodward. who won an Academy Award for her wellgroomed performance as the lady and the wanton in “Three Faces of Eve,” plays a depraved Southern belle opposite Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani in Tennessee Williams’ film “‘The Mat 2D eoeceeve eeee Fugitive Kind” at the .... Theatre. Sidney Lumet directed this United Artists release. Anna Magnani Marked For Role (Biographical Feature) Some years ago playwright Tennessee Williams wrote a play called “The Rose Tattoo” for Broadway presentation with the thought of Italian actress Anna Magnani starring in it. His wish wasn’t fulfilled on the stage, but when “The Rose Tattoo” became a motion picture, Miss Magnani made her American film debut. She won the Academy Award as best actress of 1951 for her performance, attesting to Williams’ accuracy in casting his characters. More recently, playwright Williams sat at his typewriter creating a compelling story of love and violence in the South called “Orpheus Descending.” In his mind, again, he envisioned certain actors: Marlon Brando was one of his men‘al choices, and Miss Magnani the other. And again, neither could appear on stage. But producers Martin Jurow and Richard Shepherd have managed to bring together the explosive Brando-Magnani combination for the United Artists film version of the play, now ti‘led “The Fugitive Kind,” and made even more volatile by the presence of a third Oscar winner, Joanne Woodward, and the guiding hand of director Sidney Lumet. The fi'm opens...... BETO ssceacits Theatre. Miss Magnani today is one of the most controversial figures in show business. Why did she become an actress? “Because I wanted escape from everyday life,” she answers simply. After attendiag a French school on one of the hills of Rome, she enrolled at the celebrated Academy of Santa Cecilia when she was 15. There she studied all phases of dramatic art for three and a half years. The Academy, incidentally, is known to many as the Eleanora Duse dramatic academy. Upon finishing at the school, Miss Magnani joined Dario Nicodemi’s Company in Rome. The leading woman of Nicodemi’s troupe married and moved to the United States. Miss Magnani took her place. She portrayed every type of heroine on stage, with her passion for honesty and realism in acting attracting immediate acclaim ever since. ‘Love’ Is Where You Find It! (Feature) As the motion picture has developed from a novelty to a powerful story-telling medium to an art form capable of casting a searching illumination on the contemporary scene, so its handling of love (and sex) has progressed through various degrees of naivete to a bold realistic acceptance of what used to be known as the Facts of Life. The love-iswhere -you-find-it school has been represented in recent years by some striking examples. In “Trapeze,” for instance, Gina Lollobrigida and Burt Lancaster bussed each other warmly a hundred feet in the air, dangling by their heels from a trapeze. Lancaster and Deborah Kerr, in “From Here to Eternity,” embraced on the beach with a heavy surf rolling over them. In “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman made love in a sleepingbag. Miss Bergman (this time with Cary Grant), played a torrid love scene in a telephone booth in “Notorious.” In “The Fugitive Kind,’ Marlon Brando and Joanne Woodward play a steamy love scene in a foggy graveyard in the dead of night. Both stars act out the scene—one of the most passionate ever written by Tennessee Williams — while leaning against a tombstone! Opening on at the decors ae Theatre through United Artists release, “The Fugitive Kind” stars Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward, all of them recent Oscar winners. eee eee eee