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Marlon Brando Caricature, shown here in an early publicity promo in 1948, age 24.
Brando was an American actor and film director. With a career spanning 60 years, he is well-regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film.
He is credited with helping to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting, having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s. He is often regarded as one of the first actors to bring Method Acting to mainstream audiences.
He initially gained acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for reprising the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, a role that he originated successfully on Broadway. He received further praise for his performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, and his portrayal of the rebellious motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One proved to be a lasting image in popular culture.
The 1960s saw Brando’s career take a downturn. He directed and starred in the cult western film One-Eyed Jacks, a critical and commercial flop, after which he delivered a series of box-office failures, beginning with the 1962 film adaptation of the novel Mutiny on the Bounty. After 10 years, during which he did not appear in a successful film, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, a role critics consider among his greatest. The Godfather was then one of the most commercially successful films of all time.
He finished out the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now, a box-office hit for which he was highly paid and which helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s.
Upon release, Apocalypse Now earned critical acclaim, as did Brando’s performance. His whispering of Kurtz’s final words “The horror! The horror!”, has become particularly famous.
His mother, known as Dodie, was unconventional for her time; she smoked, wore pants and drove cars. An actress herself and a theatre administrator, she helped Henry Fonda begin his acting career.
As a boy, he was introduced to neighbor Wally Cox and the two were unlikely closest friends. In 1973, Brando was devastated by the death of Cox. Brando slept in Cox’s pajamas and wrenched his ashes from his widow. She was going to sue for their return, but finally said “I think Marlon needs the ashes more than I do.”
The filming of Mutiny on the Bounty affected Brando’s life in a profound way, as he fell in love with Tahiti and its people. He bought a 12-island atoll, Tetiaroa, and in 1970 hired an award-winning young Los Angeles architect, Bernard Judge, to build his home and natural village there without despoiling the environment.
Brando was known for his tumultuous personal life and his large number of partners and children. He was the father to 11 children, three of whom were adopted.
On July 1, 2004, Brando, suffering from diabetes and liver cancer, died of respiratory failure from pulmonary fibrosis with congestive heart failure at the UCLA Medical Center. He was 80 years old.
Brando was cremated, and his ashes were put in with those of his childhood friend, comedian and actor Wally Cox and another longtime friend, Sam Gilman. They were then scattered partly in Tahiti and partly in Death Valley.
Description
All prints are produced using Giclee printing process which is used for archival art reproduction. This process uses fade-resistant archival pigment-based ink which lasts over 100 years. All prints are printed on 310GSM, Luxurious mould-made, 100% cotton rag Archival Certified watercolor paper.
Archival Conservation Mat is included with your purchase. Mat is a high quality, 4 ply (1/16″) surround mat. These frame mats are acid-free & Lignin-free made with 100% virgin alpha-cellulose surface, core and backing papers. So your caricature with mat will fit into a standard comparable frame either “20” x 24″ or “16” x 20″ depending on the print size, (frame not included). Price also includes a Backer Board.
32″ x 40″ stretch canvas print is produced by Giclee printing process and are hand stretched over heavy duty American made white pine. The canvas print is varnished twice after printing. The canvas prints are ready to hang (complete with hanging wire).
Additional information
Weight | .25 lbs |
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Dimensions | 16 × 20 × .25 in |
Print Size | 32" x 40" Stretched Canvas Print $495, 20" x 24" Stretched Canvas Print $330, 11" x 14" Watercolor Print $95, 16" x 20" Watercolor Print $185 |