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Susan Mizruchi presents the Marlon Brando you've never attained. When people think about Marlon Brando they think of the celeb; the hunk; the scandals. Susan L. Mizruchi finds the Brando others have missed: the man who collected 4,000 catalogs; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make sure they are sharper; the man who consciously used his body and applied the objects around him to generate believable characters; the man who used his popularity to foster Indian and civil protection under the law. From Brando's words, audiotapes, and annotated screenplays and catalogs - many never before available - Mizruchi provides us a intricate person whose brains belies the high-school dropout. She shows how Brando's embrace of overseas civilizations and outsiders led to brilliant shows in unusual functions - a gay man, an Asian, and a German soldier - to foster empathy on a global scale and also to test himself. In portraying a fuller Brando, Mizruchi portrays a far more fascinating man.
