Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

Motion Pictures Category Star

• Ceremony was on February 8, 1960

Motion Pictures Star for Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

As Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972)

• Marlon Brando is portrayed here in his Academy Award winning role as 'Don Vito Corleone' in The Godfather (1972)
• Brando brought a raw, magnetic masculinity to the screen and has often been regarded as the world's most intimidating actor. He has been the inspiration for generations of Hollywood actors following in his footsteps. Jack Nicholson commented, "We are all Brando's children"
• Novelist Mario Puzo wrote to Brando personally to convince him to play the role in The Godfather (1972). For his screen test, he stuffed cotton balls into his cheeks and stunned producers who hardly recognized him

Born Marlon Brando Jr. on April 3, 1924 in Omaha, NE
Died July 1, 2004 in Los Angeles, CA

Wood Carved Jacket

Believe It or Not!
This jacket is one solid piece of carved wood, including the zipper, the buttons, and even the hanger!

• Based on the black leather jacket worn by Marlon Brando in "The Wild One," this piece was created by hand by Fraser Smith. The coat weighs over 40 pounds and took over 100 days to make.

Marlon Brando

Miniature Script Writing:
The Godfather Movie Script
Look carefully. Believe It or Not!, this beautiful and detailed depiction from the Oscar winning movie, "The Godfather" is made up of thousands of letters and words - in fact every word of the script for the film starring Marlon Brando. Created entirely by hand by Rick Almanzan of Los Angeles POPART, it took over 300 hours to complete. Rick is left-handed, and actually writes upside-down so that his hand never crosses the lines he is working on so as not to smudge a single letter.