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15%OFFSusan L. Mizruchi - Brando's Smile - 9780393082869 - V9780393082869
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Brando's Smile

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Description for Brando's Smile Hardcover. A groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life. Num Pages: 512 pages, 78 illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 158 x 40. Weight in Grams: 866.
When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In Brando’s Smile, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper; the man who consciously used his body and employed the objects around him to create believable characters; the man who loved Emily Dickinson’s poetry.

To write this biography, Mizruchi gained unprecedented access to a vast number of annotated books from Brando’s library, hand-edited copies of screenplays, private letters, and recorded interviews that have ... Read more

Mizruchi shows how Brando’s embrace of foreign cultures and social outsiders led to his brilliant performances in unusual roles—a gay man, an Asian, a German soldier—to test himself and to foster empathy on a global scale. We also meet the political Brando: the civil rights activist, the close friend of James Baldwin, the actor who declined his Oscar to support Indian rights.

More than seventy stunning—and many rare—photographs of Marlon Brando illuminate this portrait of the man who has left an astounding cultural legacy.

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Product Details

Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
866g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393082869
SKU
V9780393082869
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About Susan L. Mizruchi
Susan L. Mizruchi, a professor of English at Boston University, specializes in American literature, cultural history, and film.

Reviews for Brando's Smile
"Brimming with colorful anecdotes and details... a wonderfully cohesive work about Brando, both as an actor and a man." "[Mizruchi is] the first to have access to Brando's private archives, including his extensive library, film archives and research materials... Fascinating."
Tom Shone "To understand the complete Brando...any future biographer will now have to take account of Mizruchi's Brando as ... Read more

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