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Acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illuminating appraisal....

Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando

For everything we know about Brando as a man as well as an actor and artist, he remains a fascination.

What are we to make of someone whose life, both personal and professional, hit such dazzling highs and such abysmal lows?

Stefan Kanfer was an American journalist, critic, editor, and author.

  • Stefan Kanfer was an American journalist, critic, editor, and author.
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  • Acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illuminating appraisal.
  • Stefan Kanfer's new biography of Brando, “Somebody,” is an antidote of sorts to the unsavory and voyeuristic 1994 biography written by Peter.
  • Author bio: Stefan Kanfer is the author of The Eighth Sin, A Summer World, The Last Empire, Serious Business and Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry.

    • Stefan Kanfer answers this question, in the process giving us the final word on one of the most astonishing talents of the twentieth century.

    Born in Nebraska in 1924, Marlon grew up unaffected by the Depression but scarred by a brutal father and fatally alcoholic mother.

    After a turbulent childhood, Brando made his great escape to 1940s New York and fell in love with a city bristling with postwar optimism and vibrancy. Soon New York fell in love with him, too—his stunning Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski made him an instant star at age twenty-three.

    Brando then decamped for Hollywood, and Kanfer illuminates his performances in early movies likeThe Men,Julius Caesar,andOn the Wate