Marlon Brando Kindle Edition

There are likely better biographies of Brando but this one provides a basic introduction. His film career is discussed in detail as well as his personal relationships. I gave it three stars bc his voice is missing. I would have learned more about him from a collection of letters as well as first hand accounts of events from his children or family members. The book seemed superficial.

I have read several books about Marlon Brando over the years including Brando's own autobiography. Patricia Bosworth, the author of an excellent biography of Montgomery Clift, does an very good. job of researching and telling a fascinating story about one of America's best actors. Brando is an actor with a lot of baggage. He had a life long hate for his father and a compulsively needy love for his alcoholic mother. Marlon had 9 children with various wives and lovers. Despite great praise for his work on the stage and film in Streetcar and in films like On the Waterfront and The Godfather, he considered acting as a trivial profession.Patricia Bosworth has an involving writing style that captured my interest. In clear prose, she discussed how Brando's personal life would get in the way of his acting life. Brando as a human being was oftentimes eccentric and strange. Her stories behind the scenes of The Godfather and Last Tango made for compelling reading.Highly recommended.The kindle edition was outstanding.

An amazing story of an incredible life. As much as you may think you know about Marlon Brando, this book will disclose the real, complicated man. Beginning as a stage actor but segueing into films, you come to know a very complex man fighting many demons.His life will bring tears to your eyes and make you appreciate what it takes to be an icon.

Fairly good bio of Brando, written while he was still living, and so Bosworth quotes from Brando's own autobiography. I understand that she was working under a limit, and as others pointed out, Bosworth could have written a richer and fuller bio had she been given the room.

Patricia Bosworth writes in an easy, engaging style, and tells her story about the life and career of Marlon Brando, as fascinating an actor as American movies have ever featured, briskly. Too briskly, I'd say. She's good on his growing up and breakthrough-in-New York years, especially on his iconoclastic and iconic production role in A Streetcar Named Desire. But she becomes consistently less interested in his work and the movies he appeared in. It may be said in her defense that Brando became less interested in his work, too -- the few minutes he appeared in Superman truly don't require much explication. But there must be quite a lot more to be said of his methods for creating The Godfather and his follow-up genial spoof of the role in The Freshman, Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, and even Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls. I'd like to know more about how he interacted with some of the great directors of his time and his co-stars, not for personal gossip but rather in a critical/analytical way. The author is not up for that. She recognizes with The Wild One, On the Waterfront and Last Tango in Paris as his important performances, but Brando's failures, near misses and even the provocative potboilers are worth a look and must have much more to offer about acting and filmmaking if an author delves in with interest. She is dutiful and little more about Viva Zapata, The Men, One-Eyed Jacks, Julius Caesar, Mutiny on the Bounty, Reflections in a Golden Eye and Burn! She all but ignores everything else. The man had a longer life and left more indelible portrayals than interest her. Too bad. There are other bios on the market (as she acknowledges) and I'll turn to them for a more detailed and engaging view of this willful, perhaps self-destructive genius.

A good book about Marlon Brando's career and acting techniques rather than the usual gossips.

Good, but not very, very good!

does not live up to its reputation - mostly a rehash of other work by other biographers