Marlon Brando speaking about his mother (1955)

[@niltomega2978]

Marlon Brando was simply blessed with great looks and Charisma. Many women are captivating and can get men to do most anything for them.On the opposite spectrum there are fewer men with this gift that can get women to do most anything. Marlon Brando was one of those men. In the interviews with the women who dated him they all seemed to know what a philandering wunder-lust he was. ...but in his presence they all seemed to cave to his masculine AND feminine energy and would fall back into his arms over and over. Some guys have all the luck!

[@SuperRobertoClemente]

Is it "lucky" to not be able to produce lasting relationships, to mess up your kids? I'm not so sure. But let's avoid mythmaking and hagiography.

[@niltomega2978]

@@SuperRobertoClemente I bet you don't get invited back to parties

[@SuperRobertoClemente]

@@niltomega2978 The parties I go to are not for the purpose of sexual conquest. So luckily I do get invited back. Listen, Brando was definitely a complicated dude. You can't look away. I admire what he did at the Oscars-- people were FURIOUS. He had his moments of positive terrorism on symbolic terrain-- Hollywood's prize territory. Good for him. Apparently he fucked everything that moved. I'm less interested in that.

[@niltomega2978]

@@SuperRobertoClemente Yea i'm not that curious about his life though I've read some about him.

[@trorisk]

Having alcoholic parents made him never drank or smoked. It plays a lot on physical appearance.

[@Tere999]

Marlon Brando is one of the greatest actors.

[@Tere999]

One of the greatest actors.

[@Tere999]

Marlon Brando is one of the greatest actors of all time.

[@txicocamotl]

@@Tere999 Marlon Brando, one of the greatest actors of all time.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Very valuable film 🎥

[@romanclay1913]

Marlon Brando is the greatest actor because of his unmatched acting range. From 1950-60 he played a paraplegic in THE MEN, Stanley Kowalski in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, a Mexican revolutionary in VIVA ZAPATA, Mark Anthony, a Hell's Angel in THE WILD ONE, Terry Malloy in ON THE WATERFRONT, Napoleon in DESIREE, sang and danced in GUYS AND DOLLS, a Japanese man in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, a contrite nazi in YOUNG LIONS then directed ONE EYED JACKS.

[@MrCrowebobby]

But he was considered a genius from "Streetcar" at the very beginning of his career.

[@MsOka007]

She was an alcoholic and damaged him for life. Who knows what his mother's history was.

[@calvinjackson8110]

I wish I was "damaged" with a face like his. He must have been with about as many women as Solomon. I would just look at myself in the mirror and get on my knees and thank Jesus!!!

[@lobodo396]

María Diabuno. Silly comment.

[@stephencampbell2018]

Who cares. You're gossiping.

[@silviofernandes3217]

ISSO EXPLICA MUITA MUITA COISA !

[@MrCrowebobby]

@@calvinjackson8110 Awww, you're not such a dog, Calvin. lol

[@zeldasmith6154]

Nuturing is not a given in motherhood or fatherhood. Many people in show business had really rough childhoods.

[@brianwalsh1401]

Many people in general have less than nurturing childhoods. It's probably the number one problem that causes most of societies problems.

[@ritacapozzi3534]

Indeed. Neglect, abuse and unloving feelings from parents to offspring. It's universal truth unfortunately in many families rich or poor. That's life! Take care of yourself.

[@elismycat]

@@brianwalsh1401 so true! The wonded child, the unloved child, the neglected child, the child that grew up thinking it was unworthy, watching violence, being abused, grows to repeat these patterns unless they have done serious self work...

[@romanclay1913]

Dorothy Pennebaker Brando. She acted in community theater in Nebraska and encouraged a callow Henry Fonda. Brando really loved her but felt her alcoholism diminished their relationship. He felt by performing it would reunite them. He would have her go over his film scripts and took on Mark Anthony because of her passion for Shakespeare. When she passed away after ON THE WATERFRONT, Brando went into a brief eclipse. But how he felt about Dorothy is obvious. When Brando formed his own production company, he named it, PENNEBAKER PRODUCTIONS.

[@theharpsichordofmozart4258]

The best Mark Anthony I ever saw. What a magnificent performance. And It's said only English actors can successfully do Shakespeare.

[@romanclay1913]

Marlon Brando's Mark Antony Forum speech: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2GUpH6efZKfg7M

[@marccharbonneau1967]

His father was the brute.

[@garyspence2128]

That's the way I heard it. His father was the real villain. His mother drank because of that, and doted on Marlon. She was the one encouraging Marlon to pursue his artistic interests. He was lucky to get out of that kind of fractured home, and pursue his dreams in NYC. But that kind of trauma stays with you, no matter how much success you may have.

[@itsjustme4848]

Showing his acting chops by seeming to praise someone who was so damaging to him.

[@annamillan2903]

I love my father and he was an alcoholic and very damaging to us all. He was also adorable in his different way. You can love and hate the same person. Probably he is not acting.

[@leyla2210]

sadly, I´ve heard many praise their abusive parent(s). It is not unkommon. Denial is a defense mechanism..

[@viceb7]

I've been researching into him more, as he was far before my time but everything I've heard him say about her and others about her so far was how she was such a wonderful kind woman who taught him to appreciate the little things and animals. Sounds like dad was a monster to them both, maybe she should've protected him more and he held resentment there. Abusive families are akwahs complicated.

[@chateaupig826]

He has chosen to love her regardless of her faults , it's his mum after all

[@Michael-hw5wk]

My mom will likely pass while I am in prison, but I know I did everything possible for her for decades. I also know that I am not at fault for the imprisonment and have been the target of a brutal vendetta going on for over a decade.

[@terencethomas7599]

This is not what he said many years later...... Describing his mother as the town drunk who was brought home regularly by the police.. And that she appreaed to be responsible for his own mental health shortcomings...... along with Psychiatrists who really fuck your mind up

[@susanblanche9684]

I heard negative things about her from. Marlon but now he says he misses her and has a huge painting of her!!? Odd

[@diegstroX8032]

Well, this is from 1955. The negative things he said/revealed about her came *YEARS* later. Besides, this is when Marlon was the hottest thing in town and, of course, it was the 1950’s. 1) Actors in general *really* kept their personal lives, well, private. Marlon in particular disliked talking about his family. 2) The studios, agents, etc, in that era did all they could to prevent their stars from being cast in a bad light. 3) Many just didn’t talk about stuff like this back in those days, let alone publicly. Not to say no one did, but common it wasn’t. With that in mind, of course someone like Marlon (whose star power was shining) wasn’t going to reveal *to the world* how things actually were with his parents growing up. I mean just look at him here: it’s obvious he’s barely trying to appear jovial with his *pops* . His father after all was a brute who used to beat his wife & son. In any case, while it’s possible he felt conflicted over his mother back then, Marlon by all accounts loved her despite all her faults.

[@kennethwayne6857]

I don't think it's uncommon to have ambiguous feelings towards family and parents who had been abusive. I can personally relate to this.

[@ChipLooper]

Mommas boy!

[@alexkalish8288]

His mother was a hopeless alcoholic who totally ignored him for most of his life.

[@wcjohnny1]

A pet What ?

[@BrightSeaStar]

A goose.

[@wcjohnny1]

@@BrightSeaStar Thanks ... that's actually pretty funny !

[@hmph-]

Heath Ledger is making me pick between Captain and himself. What am I supposed to do?

[@jannorris4140]

huh?

[@hmph-]

@@jannorris4140 yea. And you better help, or I will marry Marlon Brando with Robert De Niro.

[@TheRoyalBavarian]

A boy should miss his mother

[@joshuajarod1909]

If she's worth missing.

[@chateaupig826]

don't forget , girls

[@clearlister]

feelings can't be forced it's always those lacking any emotional intelligence, that take the moral high ground

[@user-a4v4e]

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[@toyman81]

Called his father pop. Kids don't use that Language anymore, Sad!!

[@beep9235]

think it depends on the area, i know some southern Americans that still call their fathers pop

[@anderander5662]

Smoking and drinking...