Marlon Brando: A Memoir

Marlon Brando: A Memoir

â€œâ€¦[Nancyâ€™s] proven herself to be a lasting and loyal friend and someone thatâ€™s worthy of being a personal confidantâ€¦I love her children, I hate her husband, for reasons I wonâ€™t bother with now, mostly because heâ€™s there and Iâ€™m not. I would trust her with my money and my shortsâ€ â€”Marlon Brando

A young woman meets Marlon Brando while working as an assistant in her fatherâ€™s Beverly Hills dental office. Itâ€™s 1976. Brandoâ€™s a screen legend. The twenty year old is enraptured by the fifty-two year old star of such classic American films as A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, The Wild One, On the Waterfront, The Godfather, and Last Tango in Paris. Brandoâ€™s as dazzled by herâ€”â€œI think Iâ€™m falling in love,â€ he sighs, taking her hand in his to kissâ€”and on that day, he and Nancy Peardon embark on an intimate and tempestuous relationship that was to last another twenty-eight years until the actorâ€™s death in 2004.

Serving as Brandoâ€™s on-again, off-again executive assistant, Peardon becomes his steadfast confidante, experiencing a side of the famously private actor few know about or could ever discern from his memorable roles, from Stanley Kowalski to Vito Corleone. He was mischievous, principled, idiosyncratic, volatile, enigmatic, fierce in his views on everything from the film industry to international affairs, but ultimately as vulnerable as a child. Marlon Brando: A Memoir explores Marlon Brando the man, behind Marlon Brando the myth, from the vantage point of someone who knew him like no other.

"...this memoir isn't intended as another scathing account of the Hollywood icon. Instead, it's a lovingâ€”and gushingâ€”tribute to a friend, warts and all...a vivid, easy read... A new, different twist on familiar Brando stories." â€”Kirkus Reviews
Country USA
Manufacturer The Falcon Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-03-31
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The Falcon Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-03-31
Format	Kindle eBook

Marlon Brando: A Memoir

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