Women speaking about Marlon Brando for 15 minutes.

Chapters:

00:00 - Barbra Streisand
01:20 - Rita Moreno
03:02 - Ellen Adler
04:47 - Mary Murphy
10:39 - Anna Kashfi
14:22 - Shelley Winters

[leeboriack]

Rita is so candid about everything concerning her time with Marlon.
I respect her comfort with her honesty.

[genevieve.w]

Ugh I love Rita, she's so beautiful and well-spoken. She seems like she really understood him, the good and the bad. Also I sure hope to age that gracefully.

[leeboriack]

I’m touched by Rita’s honesty, soul bearing and analysis of her relationship.

[robpolaris]

As someone who grew up with a single alcoholic mother and had a very dark childhood, it is very difficult to know how to be in a relationship and then be a parent when you have never seen it. I read a lot of books and even took parenting classes before I had a kid. I was terrified of being a bad parent. I did much better as a parent than a spouse. I was never physically or verbally abusive. I just don’t trust adults so I wouldn’t really open up to people I dated after my divorce but with no long term intent. It didn’t work out but having a daughter has been the best part of my whole life.

[el.aye.bee.]

How can you not love Rita Moreno? She's so beautiful, so classy, so honest, succinct and insightful. Her eyes are just a pair of powerful magnets.

[jerrygoldfarb]

Rita Moreno's honesty and openness is amazing! Great actress-she was incredible as Anita in West Side Story!-she had declined to audition for it on Broadway because of nerves

[peternewman]

My mother who was very private with her emotions, feelings, etc. in keeping with her astrological sign of Cancer, born in 1925, married my father in 1946 and they stayed together all their lives. After my father died in 2002, she bravely continued on with life alone. The ONLY time I EVER saw her lose composure was when I asked her what she thought about Marlon Brando. Her reply was excitedly “ Oh my god! GORGEOUS!!” I was absolutely stunned to say the least! But, there it is… 😮

[joemarshall]

God, that Mary Murphy is stunning in that scene...innocent, wide-eyed, and radiant. She is equally powerful to Marlon.

[tricivenola]

Like Streisand I fell in love with Marlon Brando when I was 13. I saw him in Mutiny on the Bounty and was instantly obsessed. My first in a long line of obsessive loves. I harangued my parents to let me see the movie again, but that wasn't enough. I memorized the soundtrack. I learned that Brando had loved the Tahitian actress Tarita who played Maimiti. So I learned how to Tahitian dance, which made me a big hit a few years later in the hippie times. I painted pictures of Tahitian women, adopted Paul Gauguin's palette, even loved the Mad Magazine takeoff of the movie which made big fun of Brando's affectations...and saw every Brando picture from then on. That was one obsession that paid off.
Around 1980 in LA, some guy came into a crowded room exclaiming, "We were just at Nibler's and Marlon Brando was at a table with two gorgeous Eurasian chicks. God, what a pig. He's short and fat and old, and these babes were..." There were about twelve women standing around, saying "Really!! You saw Marlon Brando? Wow!" His friend chimed in with, again, how Brando was this little toad of a guy. Finally one woman cut him off. She said, "You don't get it, fool. He's Marlon F--cking Brando. It doesn't matter what he looks like. He can eat with his feet, he can be three feet tall and drool. He's Marlon F-cking Brando."

[twicecups]

When the interviewer said "He brought that. He was the first who brought that to the screen, that passion" that was an undisputed fact. Marlon reinvented the whole concept of male acting and what it meant to be a hero in a film. And when I say this I put emphasis on the "Hero" which you dont see much now. We have characters, protagonists, avengers. But the role of a hero, the passion in The Man of a film. The masculinity he holds the charisma, intimidation & the aura he carries with himself while also having the perfect amount of vulnerability... Brando brought all that to the screen. He embodied the term hero and paved the way for decades worth of heroes to walk. Names like Pacino & De Niro wouldn't be all so recognisable if Brando haven't left a blueprint for millions of actors to build on.

[timmaloney]

"behind every Great Man is a Woman, rolling her eyes" ~ Jim Carrey,
a humbling thought .

[markAD]

For him to keep getting married and abusing these women and her, Rita Moreno, to keep wanting him and keep seeing him is kinda sad.

[monmothma]

This was surprisingly honest. Both the good and the bad. Especially from Rita Moreno, who's also so intelligent she's a joy to listen to

[SydneyWiley-zw]

The struggle took its bizarrest turn in 1972 when Kashfi effectively had her son kidnapped from school and taken to Mexico, for which she was later arrested. Reportedly, the town where the boy was taken was San Felipe, Baja, Mexico. This episode prompted the courts to grant Brando sole custody of Christian. No doubt the protracted custody battle had a profoundly negative affect on their unhappy son, who in 1991 was convicted of the manslaughter of his stepsister's boyfriend. He received a lengthy prison sentence.

[jthepickle]

Physical beauty along with a difficult childhood leads to an interesting, often tragic life.
My mother, single mother - 3 kids - was a knock out. Men were always coming around to take her out, make her smile - while I put myself to bed. I grew up hansom and became a male model, for a time. Forever I put beautiful women on a pedestal, and spent most of my life alone.

[angelas.]

Anna Kashfi (real name Joan O'Callaghan) was born to a white Welsh mother and a white English/Irish father who worked in Calcutta, India. She mentions at 12:15 the "language barrier" between her and Brando--she was raised speaking English. She assumed an Indian identity to become and actress and to attract Brando. It worked, and when he found out her gigantic lie--split with her. Brando despised lies. And...Brando was wacky, I think we all know...but Anna was absolutely nuts--to the point where she lost custody of their son when he was a little boy, and she never regained custody of him--and this was the 1960s. Try reading her book "Brando for Breakfast" (which is unintelligible, even with a ghost writer) and you'll see for yourself. Also...she makes slip ups even in this brief interview. When asked about Brando bringing a young woman home while he was married to Kashfi, she starts off by saying she was "very pregnant" at the time, and just a minute later said that the young woman (France Nuyen) told her to not eat curry because Kashfi was breastfeeding.

[a.aron]

Anna Kashfi's voice is so beautiful - so calm, so well-spoken, natural, and clear. Her voice reminds me of Josephine Baker's in her interviews in the sixties - a mix of old-school British English, and a far away feel; a confident humanity, and comforting calmness.

[pattih]

Rita, we have that in common! I spent over 30 years going back and leaving and going back, with my ex-husband. We finally released each other, and within a short time, he passed away. After a time, I began to heal from much of the effects, and am still aware of some further healing. I gave it all to God, through prayer and re-leases it to Him. Some thing will probably remain, as a reminder.

[WhiteWolf--]

Wow, Mary Murphy was a total smokeshow! Like a hotter version of Donna Reed or the like. Even in the interview decades later she is still so beautiful. Some people just have those genes

[SunfloH]

Beautiful man!!! Man and women loved him... and Marlon loved both as well! I think he had children with every housekeeper he had. He was a very confused/troubled man. Sadly 😥