Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work
To write this biography, Mizruchi gained unprecedented access to a vast number of annotated books from Brando's library, hand-edited copies of screenplays, private letters, and recorded interviews that have never before been quoted in a biography. Original interviews with some of the still-living players from Brando's life, including Ellen Adler, his one-time girlfriend and the daughter of his acting teacher Stella Adler, provide even deeper insight into the complex person whose intelligence belied the high-school dropout.
Mizruchi shows how Brando's embrace of foreign cultures and social outsiders led to his brilliant performances in unusual roles--a gay man, an Asian, a German soldier--to test himself and to foster empathy on a global scale. We also meet the political Brando: the civil rights activist, the close friend of James Baldwin, the actor who declined his Oscar to support Indian rights.
More than seventy stunning--and many rare--photographs of Marlon Brando illuminate this portrait of the man who has left an astounding cultural legacy.
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[Mizruchi is] the first to have access to Brando s private archives, including his extensive library, film archives and research materials Fascinating. --Tom Shone"
To understand the complete Brando any future biographer will now have to take account of Mizruchi s Brando as well to somehow square the lover and the sensualist with the critical thinker. --Julia M. Klein"
Renowned cultural scholar Susan L. Mizruchi explores the Brando that was not visible to the world in order to better understand the one that was a Brando that was independent of the public persona and often at odds with it. "
The most amazing restoration work on an artist s image that I ve ever seen. --Greg Carpenter"
