Brando

Brando
Summary: "The unmistakable voice, striking good looks and eccentric personality -- and the complex inner life they cloaked: Turner Classic Movies (TCM) sifts through the mystery behind one of Hollywood's most-respected and celebrated practitioners of the art and craft of acting in BRANDO, a new two-part documentary that premiered May 1-2, 2007. Piecing together performances from throughout the decades with never-before-seen footage and a series of original, in-depth interviews featuring not only a host of his Hollywood peers but also family members and childhood friends, TCM, along with The Greif Company, has worked to unmask the man behind the exceptional talent, captivating persona and apathy (and frequent aversion) toward his profession that was Marlon Brando.

'The film investigates the challenges he faced in almost every personal and working relationship throughout his life: the hatred toward his hard-to-please, womanizing father and the sadness for his alcoholic mother; the repeating pattern of determined pursuit of a woman who interested him and, once he captured her heart, the inexplicable distance and rejection that always followed; the disagreeable on-set behavior in the 1960s that led almost every major studio and prominent filmmaker to reject him until he staged a comeback with The Godfather (1972); and the rift he caused with the Academy when he sent a representative to reject his Best Actor win at the annual awards ceremony because of what he considered Hollywood's persecution of Native Americans."--2007 Peabody Awards entry form.

Corporate Producers: Greif Company | Turner Network Television

Broadcast Date: May 1-2, 2007