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Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me |  | Author: Marlon Brando
Creator: Robert Lindsey
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 185914
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.9
ISBN: 0679410139
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43028092
EAN: 9780679410133
ASIN: 0679410139
Publication Date: September 3, 1994
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An honest, revealing self-portrait by the critically acclaimed, fiercely independent actor discusses his early life, career, world travels, social activism, and profiles of friends, lovers, and professional colleagues. 500,000 first printing.
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 If you really want to know what Brando was like . . . January 25, 2010
liat2768 (dallas)
This book is an utterly marvellous piece of writing. Brando has poured his heart out in a stunningly personal account of his thoughts, motivations and experiences in a very troubled life.If you know nothing about Brando beyond a few of his movies (as I did) this book is fascinating as an account of a brilliant and emotionally wounded man struggling to come to terms with life and his role in the world in general. Brando's philosophies on politics, acting, equality, zionism, native american rights, parenting and so many other things are laid out clearly and in fasincating detail.
I picked this book up out of curiosity and was surprised at just how engaging it actually was. And I was surprised at just how fascinating a human being this man was! Brando allows himself to examine his past with a honest and forgiving eye and the narration reads very much like stories a grandfather might tell his grandchildren about his wild and terrible youth and his gradual gaining of wisdom.
What I liked best about this book was the actor's obvious wish to be kind to those he was writing about. Even when he feels that he was wronged he seems to attempt to rise above anger and write as a gentleman without hurting anyone. His refusal to write about his wives or children makes this book much more genteel than so many vulgar biographies out there. He is brutally honest about his own failings and the failings of the people aroound him but at the same time is forgiving and ever optimistic about humanity in general. This is no bitter old man writing about and yearning for his lost youth.
The book is not a sequential list of a man hopping from one affair to another and from one crisis to another, but it is an account of the emotional and psychological development of an extremely intelligent human being to the more tranquil and accepting stage of old age. The book is filled with wonderful stories from events in Brando's life and describes what it was like making the films that he did. He devotes two single faced pages to a very fond description of his relationship with Monroe and leaves it at that. Scattered among these stories are coherent and intelligent discussions of his philosophies about life and his hope for the future of our world.
I do not know what Brando's motivation was in finally writing his autobiography but I can only be glad that he did. Often hilarious and full of insight, this book will be one of very few biographies that I intend to keep in my library.
Love this book October 14, 2009
Ayah
The book came in a reasonable amount of time and came in perfect condition. Thanks!
Songs My Mother Taught Me REVIEW July 5, 2009
Leon Gaitanis (Melbourne, Vic, AUS)
I think this is the best book on Brando I've read! I'm a big fan of his 50's career and along with Dalton's book - James Dean, The Mutant KIng, I think is great, Brando mentions people like Marylin Monroe, James Dean, Kazan, Strassberg and many others from that era. Informative reading for any one interested in Method acting!
 Stars for a star May 19, 2009
SuperFan
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product is a gift so I am not in a postition to review it except to say that it is in good condition.
Brando's no holds barred account of his life October 11, 2008
Dennis W. Wong
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If one wants to read trash about this great actor's life, then read the Manso book but if you want an honest account of his life, then read this book. Brando is brutally honest about his life almost to the subject of his shortcomings that one admires his tenacity for survival in the cruel world of Hollywood. Like he stated in the book, we are all "polka-dotted" in terms of our behavior and surely he was no exception. You'll come away still in awe of his artistry as an actor even though he admits it's just a craft and way to make a living.
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