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Marlon Brando

June 2024

  • 1959, NORTH BY NORTHWEST<br>EVA MARIE SAINT &amp; CARY GRANT Character(s): Eve Kendall &amp; Film 'NORTH BY NORTHWEST' (1959) Directed By ALFRED HITCHCOCK 17 July 1959 CT2771 Allstar/MGM (USA 1959) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MGM and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MGM is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Ranked
    Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked

  • A Dry White Season.

    A Dry White Season review – Marlon Brando heads starry cast in ground-breaking apartheid drama

April 2024

  • Eleanor Coppola on the Apocalypse Now set in the Philippines. A documentary about the turbulent film shoot, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, drew heavily on her footage.

    Eleanor Coppola obituary

    Chronicler of the making of her husband’s Apocalypse Now whose footage and recordings were the basis for a documentary and book
  • "The Wild One" Film Still<br>1953: Actor Marlon Brando rides a Triumph motorcycle in a scene from the movie "The Wild One" which came out in 1953. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Ranked
    More than a contender: Marlon Brando’s greatest performances – ranked!

    Lovers, fighters … and gangsters? On the centenary of the actor’s birth, we pick out his greatest roles
  • He could have been a contender … Marlon Brando and Eve Marie Saint in On the Waterfront.

    On the Waterfront review – Marlon Brando’s wounded masculinity rains punches down

    Rereleased for its 70th anniversary, Elia Kazan’s classic exploration of corruption and whether or not to squeal is made all the more viscerally powerful by his own Huac testimony

March 2024

  • Steve! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Steve! (Martin) to Emily the Criminal: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    A thrilling documentary about the wild life of Steve Martin, the first comic ever to sell out stadiums – and Aubrey Plaza is electric as always playing a food delivery driver turned fraudster

April 2023

  • ‘What a super man’ … Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve in Superman (1978).

    Superman review – Christopher Reeve’s superhero origin movie still looks swell

    Richard Donner’s 1978 event movie brought Hollywood grandeur, a great John Williams score and a gentlemanly hero quite unlike any other

March 2023

  • Marlon Brando poses backstage at the 27th Academy Awards holding an Oscar for his performance in the movie On the Waterfront on March 30, 1955 in New York City, New York.

    Pssst! Wanna buy an Oscar? The mysterious case of the missing Academy Awards

    An Oscar can only, officially, be sold for $1 – but that hasn’t stopped a small but lucrative black market. Where are all those that have disappeared?

January 2023

  • LIBRARY IMAGE OF LAST TANGO IN PARIS<br>Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando Film: Last Tango In Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi) Fr/It 1972, Director: Bernardo Bertolucci 14 October 1972 CTH26714 Allstar Picture Library/UNITED ARTISTS **Warning** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNITED ARTISTS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNITED ARTISTS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Character(s): Jeanne,Paul

    Last Tango in Paris at 50: Bertolucci’s controversial drama remains troubling

    The Italian director’s knotty drama remains a much-discussed provocation, a film filled with lyrical beauty but also repulsive cruelty

November 2022

  • Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris, 1972.

    From the Guardian archive
    Last Tango in Paris reviewed: ‘the fur is going to fly’ – archive, 1972

    20 November 1972: Marlon Brando gives his best performance for 20 years in Bertolucci’s startling new film

October 2022

  • Sacheen Littlefeather Refuses Marlon Brando's Academy Award<br>At the 1973 Academy Awards, Sacheen Littlefeather refuses the Academy Award for Best Actor on behalf of Marlon Brando who won for his role in The Godfather. She carries a letter from Brando in which he explains he refused the award in protest of American treatment of the Native Americans.

    Sacheen Littlefeather obituary

  • Oscars Apologizes To Sacheen Littlefeather After 50 Years, Los Angeles, California - 16 Aug 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Globe Photos/REX/Shutterstock (13096454b) The Academy has apologized to Sacheen Littlefeather, a Native American activist and actress booed off stage at the Oscars nearly 50 years ago. She appeared on live TV in 1973 to refuse an Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando, who had won the best actor prize for The Godfather. Brando rejected the award because of misrepresentation of Native Americans by the US film industry. FILE PHOTO SHOT ON: 1973, Los Angeles, USA: Sacheen Littlefeather gives speech during 1973 Academy Awards. Oscars Apologizes To Sacheen Littlefeather After 50 Years, Los Angeles, California - 16 Aug 2022

    Sacheen Littlefeather faked Native American ancestry say family

August 2022

  • Sacheen Littlefeather, speakng at the 1973 Oscars ceremony. On behalf of Marlon Brando, she refused the best actor award he was given for his role in The Godfather.

    Academy Awards apologises to Sacheen Littlefeather for Oscars speech abuse

    Nearly 50 years after her speech on behalf of Marlon Brando about depiction of Native Americans, academy apologises for ‘unwarranted and unjustified’ response

May 2022

  • Elvis Presley leaving his hotel en route to the Nassau Coliseum with Joe Esposito and Diane Goodin in July 1975.

    ‘Paparazzo extraordinaire’: Ron Galella – a life in pictures

    Ron Galella, nicknamed the Godfather of US paparazzi, has died at his New Jersey home aged 91. The photographer gained notoriety for his candid shots and celebrity feuds, including with Jackie Onassis and Marlon Brando – who punched him outside a New York restaurant and broke his jaw

April 2022

  • Marlon Brando in The Godfather, 1972.

    From the Guardian archive
    Daddy of ‘em all: the phenomenal success of The Godfather – archive, 1972

    6 April 1972: In New York, everyone is talking about The Godfather. What’s more, everyone thinks it’s great

March 2022

  • 94th Academy Awards - Show, Los Angeles, California, Usa - 27 Mar 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Myung Chun/Los Angeles Times/REX/Shutterstock (12869374fi) HOLLYWOOD, CA - March 27, 2022. Bradley Cooper comforts Will Smith during the show at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times) 94th Academy Awards - Show, Los Angeles, California, Usa - 27 Mar 2022

    Stage frights: five of the most shocking moments in Oscars history

    Will Smith isn’t the only actor to cause consternation at the world’s most coveted film awards

February 2022

  • More energy and detail in one set-piece than most entire films … the wedding scene in The Godfather, with Talia Shire and Marlon Brando.

    The Godfather review – a brutal sweep of magnificent storytelling

    Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama

November 2021

  • Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris.

    Last Tango in Paris: story behind Bertolucci’s film to become TV series

  • Rita Moreno

    The G2 interview
    ‘I owe an enormous debt to therapy!’ Rita Moreno on West Side Story, dating Brando and joy at 90

June 2021

  • Sacheen Littlefeather at the 1973 Oscars

    ‘I promised Brando I would not touch his Oscar’: the secret life of Sacheen Littlefeather

    In 1973, she made history at the Academy Awards, appearing in place of Marlon Brando, declining his statuette and making a speech about Native American rights. She has been speaking out ever since
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