Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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Susan Mizruchi presents the Marlon Brando you’ve never met.

When people think about Marlon Brando they think of
the movie star; the hunk; the scandals. Susan L. Mizruchi
finds the Brando others have missed: the man who collected
four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts,
trimming his lines to make them sharper; the man who consciously
used his body and employed the objects around him
to create believable characters; the man who used his fame
to foster Indian and civil rights. From Brando’s letters, audiotapes,
and annotated screenplays and books—many never
before available—Mizruchi gives us a complex person whose
intelligence belies the high-school dropout. She shows how
Brando’s embrace of foreign cultures and outsiders led to brilliant
performances in unusual roles—a gay man, an Asian,
and a German soldier—to foster empathy on a global scale
and to test himself. In portraying a fuller Brando, Mizruchi
portrays an even more fascinating man.