TIL weeks before Marlon Brando’s death, three newcomers gained control of his estate. They reclaimed assets promised to friends, sold his island, commercialized his image, and shut down fan run pages. Under their care his eldest son had even couldn’t afford the funeral.

TIL weeks before Marlon Brando’s death, three individuals took control of his estate, reclaiming assets promised to friends, selling his island, commercializing his image.under their care,his eldest son had no health insurance and couldn’t afford the funeral.

For The Men (1950), his first Hollywood role after Broadway, Marlon Brando lived at Birmingham VA Hospital in Van Nuys to prep as a paralyzed vet, so real everyone believed it, until he teased religious girls on faith healing with a shaky, sweaty rise from his wheelchair, shocking all.

TIL Cary Grant turned down The Bridge on the River Kwai just to work with Marlon Brando in The Pride and the Passion. But Brando, calling the script “mediocre at best,” bailed. Grant filmed it with Sinatra instead, and it flopped, while The Bridge on the River Kwai became an Oscar-winning classic.

When Michael Jackson first Performed "The Moonwalk" live.

First Image from 'Maria' starring Matt Dillon (as Marlon Brando) and Anamaria Vartolomei (as Maria Schneider), who starred opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Tango in Paris” at the age of 19 and never recovered from the shoot.

First image of Billy Zane as Marlon Brando from Bill Fishman's 'Waltzing With Brando' - The film tells the story of the period in which Marlon Brando prepares for some of his most iconic roles (The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris)

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First look at Alice in borderland season 3

Alan Shayne: The Former Warner Bros. President Whose Acting Dream Was Once Shattered by Marlon Brando9

Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint’s Iconic Kiss in On the Waterfront – Filmed 70 Years Ago

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Brando, for Vogue (1948)