Brando
Subtitle: the biography
By: Peter Manso.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1118
ISBN-13: 9780786860630
Subjects: Brando, Marlon; Actors -- United States -- Biography
Description: "From 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [1085]-1094) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Omaha: 1893-1930; title: Evanston: 1930-38; title: Libertyville: 1938-41; title: Shattuck: 1941-43; title: New York - Sayville: 1943-44; title: New York - Provincetown: 1944-47; title: New York: Offstage: 1945-48; title: Streetcar and the Actors Studio: 1947-49; title: Hollywood: 1949-53; title: Waterfront: 1953-54; title: Flailing: 1954-58; title: Turning a corner: 1958-62; title: The sixties (I): 1962-68; title: The sixties (II): 1963-71; title: The Godfather and Last tango in Paris: 1970-73; title: The American Indian movement: 1972-76; title: Tahiti: 1972-83; title: The eighties: 1982-89; title: The shooting: 1990-94 .