Guys and Dolls would be Brando's first and last musical role. He was also offered the opportunity to portray one of the principal characters in the Broadway premiere of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, but turned the part down after falling asleep while trying to read the massive script and pronouncing the play "ineptly written and poorly constructed".īrando and Simmons were paired together again in the film adaptation of the musical Guys and Dolls (1955). Cornell also cast him as the Messenger in her production of Jean Anouilh's Antigone that same year. In that same year, Brando played the role of Marchbanks alongside Katharine Cornell in her production's revival of Candida, one of her signature roles. In 1946, he appeared on Broadway as the young hero in the political drama A Flag is Born, refusing to accept wages above the Actors' Equity rate. New York Drama Critics voted him "Most Promising Young Actor" for his role as an anguished veteran in Truckline Café, although the play was a commercial failure.
The Lunts wanted Brando to play the role of Alfred Lunt's son in O Mistress Mine, and Lunt even coached him for his audition, but Brando's reading during the audition was so desultory that they couldn't hire him. Then, in 1944, he made it to Broadway in the bittersweet drama I Remember Mama, playing the son of Mady Christians. His behavior had him kicked out of the cast of the New School's production in Sayville, but he was soon afterwards discovered in a locally produced play there. Brando established a pattern of erratic, insubordinate behavior in the few shows he had been in.
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In 19, he worked as an usher at the town's only movie theatre, The Liberty.īrando used his Stanislavski System skills for his first summer stock roles in Sayville, New York, on Long Island. In 1937, Brando's parents reconciled and moved together to Libertyville, Illinois, a small town north of Chicago. His mother took the three children to Santa Ana, California, where they lived with her mother. He had a habit of telling me I would never amount to anything." Brando's parents moved to Evanston, Illinois, when his father's work took him to Chicago, but separated when Brando was 11 years old. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right. Brando harbored far more enmity for his father, stating, "I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. In his autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me, Brando expressed sadness when writing about his mother: "The anguish that her drinking produced was that she preferred getting drunk to caring for us." Dodie and Brando's father eventually joined Alcoholics Anonymous. However, she was an alcoholic and often had to be brought home from Chicago bars by her husband. An Actress herself and even a theatre administrator, she helped Henry Fonda begin his acting career. His mother, known as Dodie, was unconventional for her time she smoked, wore trousers and drove cars.
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