Marlon Brando

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bellecs: Marlon Brando directing Karl Malden, showing him how to hold a woman on his knee, One-Eyed Jacks (1960)

There was something in his eyes, there was something in his emotion, there was something about him that you couldnt take you eyes off of him. I loved it. Those two years in the dressing room, I knew him. I knew the sensitivity of the man, the craziness of him, and just tell him not to do something, you know that next day he’s gonna do it, that was Marlon. And in the three movies that we did, we had a hell of a good time. And in One Eyed Jacks, I was a very proud actor when he called me and said “Karl, I’m gonna produce and direct a movie, I’ve got a part for you.” I hadn’t read it and I said “I’ll do it. Anything at all.” And when it was over he came to the house and he looked around and he said “Karl, is this the house that Jack built?” I said, “You’re right, it is” We didn’t see eachother much, our lifestyle is completely different. I couldn’t live the way he lived, and he definitely couldn’t live the way I was living. I was a square as far as he was concerned. ‘You only live once’ was his idea, and he had a great time doing it. He was the man that I cherished and I loved, never got to see much of. -Karl Malden on Marlon Brando. They shared a lifelong friendship that began when both had small roles in the play Truckline Cafe in 1946. They would go on to co-star in the stage and film productions of A Streetcar Named Desire,  and in the films On the Waterfront and One Eyed Jacks. 

On the Waterfront (1954)

On the set of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Marlon, Kim Hunter, Jessica Tandy and Karl Malden during the 1948 stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire

December, 1953 while filming On the Waterfront

On the set of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

On the Waterfront (1954)