Download Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando AudioBook Free
Marlon Brando will never stop to fascinate us: for his triumphs as an professional ("Over the Waterfront", "The Godfather", "Last Tango in Paris"), as well as his disasters; for the power of the display portrayals he offered, and then for his turbulent, tumultuous personal life. Seamlessly intertwining the person and the work, Kanfer needs us through Brando's troubled childhood, to his arrival in NY in the 1940s, where he examined with the renowned Stella Adler, with the age of twenty-three became the toast of Broadway in "A Streetcar Named Desire". Kanfer expertly examines each of Brando's movies - from "The Men" in 1950 to "The Credit score" in 2001 - making clear the development of Brando's singular genius, while also shedding light on the ethnic development of Hollywood itself. And he brings into focus Brando's self-destructiveness, his lifelong dissembling, his deeply ambivalent feelings towards his chosen vocation, and the tragedies that shadowed his final years. That is a never-before-seen family portrait of one of the very most extraordinary skills of the twentieth century.
