{"product_id":"9780393244267","title":"Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life.\u003c\/p\u003e When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the hunk, the scandals. In \u003cem\u003eBrando’s Smile\u003c\/em\u003e, Susan L. Mizruchi reveals the Brando others have missed: the man who collected four thousand books; the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper; the man who consciously used his body and employed the objects around him to create believable characters; the man who loved Emily Dickinson’s poetry. \u003cp\u003eTo write this biography, Mizruchi gained unprecedented access to a vast number of annotated books from Brando’s library, hand-edited copies of screenplays, private letters, and recorded interviews that have never before been quoted in a biography. Original interviews with some of the still-living players from Brando’s life, including Ellen Adler, his one-time girlfriend and the daughter of his acting teacher Stella Adler, provide even deeper insight into the complex person whose intelligence belied the high-school dropout.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMizruchi shows how Brando’s embrace of foreign cultures and social outsiders led to his brilliant performances in unusual roles—a gay man, an Asian, a German soldier—to test himself and to foster empathy on a global scale. We also meet the political Brando: the civil rights activist, the close friend of James Baldwin, the actor who declined his Oscar to support Indian rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore than seventy stunning—and many rare—photographs of Marlon Brando illuminate this portrait of the man who has left an astounding cultural legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121505976560,"sku":"9780393244267","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393244267_p0.jpg?v=1763696690","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393244267","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}