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Complete Scale. How could a youngster of 23, with only four Broadway parts behind him, strike so deep and come up with so much? His teacher, Stella Adler, has an answer: "Marlon never really had to learn to act. He knew. Right from the start he was a universal actor. Nothing human was foreign to him. He had the potential for any role. It's incredible how large the scale of his emotions is-he has complete scale. And he has all the external equipment-looks and voice and power of presence&$151;to go with it." Right from...
...Yoga. Marlon's physical co ordination is equal to almost any task his imagination sets. He can play the bongos well enough to take a Saturday night seat in a Latin combo. He can box and fence and do an interpretive dance with all but the pros, and he has mastered enough yoga to demonstrate an exercise in which the abdominal muscles are rotated in a flowing movement around the navel...
Along with the rest, even though Marlon never quite made a high-school diploma, goes an impressive intellect. He reads constantly (e.g., Nietzsche, Lao-tse, psychoanalytical textbooks), and has quite a flair for verbal imagery (he once described Wally Cox as "an old. fragile, beautifully embroidered Chinese ceremonial robe, with a few little Three-in-One oil spots...
...commercial Hollywood to keep him there much longer. Désirée, for instance, which will be released next month, is another big slick costume historical with no artistic nonsense about it. Producer Darryl Zanuck claims that Brando turns in one of his greatest performances as Napoleon, but Marlon modestly doubts it. "Most of the time," he says. "I just let the make-up play the part." Marlon's next role, Sky Masterson in the film version of Guys and Dolls, will give him a chance to show how well he can warble and hoof, but it hardly...
...goes further than that," says one acquaintance. "Somewhere in childhood Marlon got the idea that he didn't really have to face the facts about himself if he didn't want to. Then too, somebody apparently gave him an idealized picture of reality, and when he found he couldn't measure up to it, part of Marlon turned renegade. It's the renegade, you'll notice, that Marlon has come to personify to the public. He needs to find something in life, something in himself, that is permanently true, and he needs to lay down...