Marlon Brando Biography

Brando's breakthrough performance - A Streetcar Named Desire

Looking for a benchmark in movie acting? Breakthrough performances don't come much more electrifying than Marlon Brando's animalistic turn as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Sweaty, brutish, mumbling, yet with the balanced grace of a prize-fighter, Brando storms through the role--a role he had originated in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's celebrated play.

Discover a revolutionary actor - Brando Unzipped by Darwin Porter

The mysteries that enveloped the late icon Marlon Brando are unwrapped and exposed in this richly anecdotal biography by bestselling biographer Darwin Porter. Meticulously accurate, this book has been researched over a period of 40 years. The result is a fully rounded view of a revolutionary actor who electrified the world and, with great candour, Porter unveils the details of that ongoing disaster Brando called 'my life.' However, more than just a chronicle, the book charts the many loves of his life too and his many tortured relationships.