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...when he was 17, Marlon Brando took a bottle of hair tonic to school. When nobody was looking, he dribbled a thin stream of the stuff down a corridor, into an empty study room, and up the front wall. On the wall he scrawled, with the almost invisible liquid, a shocking word. Next period, when the room was full, he set a match to the hair tonic. Blue flame whooshed through the room, and the handwriting on the wall that day was nothing short of illuminating...
...gossip column was Brando blood. They called him "the male Garbo," and "a Dostoevsky version of Tom Sawyer." They built up a legend in the public mind that, true or false, is sure to stick. Where Barrymore was "The Great Profile," Valentino "The Sheik" and Gable "The King," Marlon Brando is known to millions who read about Hollywood every day as "The Slob...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...
John Dwyer, a brawny hiring boss on the brawling New York City dock? (and a prototype of Marlon Brando's movie role in On the Waterfront), quit his $10,000-a-year job last year to fight the racket-ridden International Longshoremen's Association. As vice president of the A.F.L.'s new rival dock union, he won thousands of dock-wallopers away from the I.L.A. But last month the I.L.A. won a Labor Relations Board election (by a scant 263 votes out of 18,551), and thereby held on to control of waterfront jobs...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...