Brando: The BiographyFrom growing up the son of alcoholic, philandering parents to his recent public agony as the father of a convicted killer, Marlon Brando has lived a life beset by personal demons. Behind the myth, beneath his immense fame and fortune, he is a troubled man whom few people really know. For the first time, Brando unveils him whole: from the height of his talents to the depths of his despair; his sexual compulsions, the endless years of psychotherapy, the girlfriends who've committed suicide, his eating disorders, his notorious psychological manipulations, his lifelong love/hate relationships with his children (legitimate and not), his involvement with the radical American Indian Movement, and his controversial seclusion in Tahiti. Gripping, astonishing, and utterly revealing, Brando is both a towering achievement and exactly the biography that its subject so richly deserves. |
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1893 1930 | 3 |
THE GODFATHER AND LAST TANGO | 15 |
1930 38 | 19 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Brando: The Biography |
| Author | Peter Manso |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Hyperion, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0786860634, 9780786860630 |
| Length | 1118 pages |
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