Marlon Brando was so enraged at the Italian premiere of his film On The Waterfront, he walked out of the cinema where he was the star guest.
The insight into the fury of cinema’s legendary angry young man has come from a book about the 1950’s Italian film industry by an American couple living in Rome at the time and mixing in glamorous movie industry circles.
The Guardian reports that Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner moved to the Italian capital in 1953 and soon befriended visiting stars.
Their memoir Hollywood on the Tiber was published in Italian in 1982, and an English translation is now due for release. The newspaper includes the story of how Brando was enraged to discover his voice had been dubbed by an Italian actor for the local version.
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