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Marlon Brando

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Marlon Brando

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Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS signed “Mar,” one page, lightly-lined yellow legal paper, 8.5 x 14, postmarked June 18, 1956. Brando writes to actor Eddie Sherman, in full: “Thanks so much for the note. I just can’t tell you what a fine fucking time I had. It was one of the big gasses for me and I’ll always remember it. When I finish the picture I’m going to try to get back for a week or two. That’ll be in about two months. I just can’t get over how many pleasant people I met there. After having lived in the scuffling suburbs for about fourteen years it was a big relief to meet people who were happy enough to leave themselves unprotected. It was just great Eddie and I want to thank you sincerely for giving us such a wonderful time. I’m sending you a couple of things and I hope you like them. Please give everyone a good rimming for me especially my little nigger,” adding the post-script, “I got the passport and stuff—thanks.” Three horizontal mailing folds, a central vertical crease, and scattered light surface and corner creasing, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, partially addressed in Brando’s hand.

In 1956, Brando had recently been named the number one box-office star in Hollywood, and used his considerable sway with the studio to lobby for and win the lead role in The Teahouse of the August Moon, a satire on the US occupation of Japan. He spent the first part of 1956 working on the Japanese island of Okinawa filming the picture. Some viewers of the film were so convinced of his performance as the Japanese interpreter Sakini that they asserted Brando wasn’t in the picture and demanded their money back. Likely en route to Japan, Brando visited Oahu, Hawaii, where he befriended Eddie Sherman, who worked as newspaper columnist. “Celebrities would do an interview on the Mainland and that would be it for the journalist,” Sherman said. “But they’d come to Honolulu and spend awhile…I’d get to really know people in a way not possible anywhere else.” A forthright letter embodying Brando’s brash persona.
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