Over the last eighty years, Marlon Brando has become such an object of fascination, buried under so many accreted layers of mythos and half-truth, that it is all but impossible to see the man behind the icon. As we approach the centennial of this undisputed American legend, Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel isa revelatory biography that tells its story the same way the man himself approached a role: from the inside.
Author, journalist, and pop culture authority Burt Kearns digs deep into the unexplored aspects of Brando’s career, interests, and singular personality, revealing how his roles on stage and screen, combined with his wild and restless personal life, helped to transform popular culture and society writ large. His influence was both broad and deep.
Startlingly intimate and powerfully told, Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel shows how the greatest actor of the twentieth century helped lead the world into the twenty-first.
LOS ANGELES TIMES: “COMPELLING! A WORTHY ADDITION TO THE BRANDO BOOKSHELF!”
CINEMA RETRO: “A NEW WAY OF APPRECIATING THE MAN ’S LIFE & CAREER. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!”
CULTURED FOCUS MAGAZINE: “KEARNS’ BOOK STANDS OUT FOR ITS RAW HONESTY AND FRESH INSIGHTS!”
GOLD DERBY: “FASCINATING NEW BOOK” LOOKS AT FILM LEGEND’S IMPACT ON POPULAR CULTURE
THE HOLLYWOOD TIMES: “READ THIS BOOK. IT WILL ELEVATE YOUR LIFE!”
NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS: “A THOROUGH & CANDID ASSESSMENT OF A GREAT ACTOR’S LIFE & ENDURING INFLUENCE!”
SATURDAY EVENING POST: BRANDO AT 100: THE ENDURING INFLUENCE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REBEL
THE PLUNGE DAILY: MARLON BRANDO, GODFATHER, HOLLYWOOD REBEL, SEXUALITY AND THE RISE
UGLY THINGS: “DEEP DIVES! SHARPLY WRITTEN AND ENTERTAINING!”
THE NEW YORK SUN: “BRANDO HERALDED A GENERATION OF ACTORS WHO CHANGED HOLLYWOOD ITSELF!”
BBC CULTURE: “BRANDO’S COMEBACK WITH ‘THE GODFATHER’ IS A CLASSIC CASE!”
IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY: WERE MARLON BRANDO AND JOHN GIELGUD LOVERS?
THE ENTERTAINMENT SECTION: “A NEW WORLD OF BRANDO’S IMPORTANCE HAS BEEN OPENED!”
LEGSVILLE COM: ANDY WARHOL’S PANTS : EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM MARLON BRANDO: HOLLYWOOD REBEL
FOXNEWS.COM: “BRANDO THRIVED IN HOLLYWOOD DESPITE RISQUÉPHOTO, SEXUALITY RUMORS!”
FAMOUS AND MADE: BRANDO BIOGRAPHER GUESTS ON ‘HARVEY BROWNSTONE INTERVIEWS’
REMIND MAGAZINE: “INTIMATE & DETAILED! A GOOD BOOK TO PURCHASE FOR YOUR COLLECTION!”
LIBRARY JOURNAL: “ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTeniNG STUDY OF BRANDO’S IMPRESSIVE INFLUENCE!”
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN: “THE ONE ESSENTIAL BOOK PUBLISHED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ANNIVERSARY!”
QUEERTY: EXCERPT: HOW BRANDO “LOOSENED UP” WHEN IT CAME TO HAVING SEX WITH MEN
EL MUNDO, SPAIN: “HOY ESTARÍA CANCELA-DÍSIMO… Y LE DARÍA IGUAL!” (ENGLISH TRANSLATION)
THE MIX: A JOURNEY THROUGH BRANDO’S TOP ICONIC FILMS
DO YOU REMEMBER?: HOW BRANDO THRIVED DESPITE RISQUÉPHOTO AND SEXUALITY QUESTIONS
LEGSVILLE.COM: REBEL IN SEARCH OF A CAUSE by LEGS McNEIL
BOOK SOUP: AUTHORS KEARNS & EPSTEIN ON BRANDO & MARVIN: 100 YEARS OF THE WILD ONES
GOOD STORY NEWS: KEARNS & BOOK AT ZIBBY’S: DID BRANDO MAKE A CAMEO APPEARANCE?
GOOD STORY NEWS: BURT KEARNS LOOKS AT A LEGEND’S LEGACY
TRUE STORIES OF TINSELTOWN WITH GRACE COLLINS: BRANDO’S “LIFE, LOVES, VERY UNCONVENTIONAL WAYS”
LET’S TALK TEN WITH DAN FISHER: “I LOVE THIS BOOK!” - TALKING BRANDO MOVIES WITH BURT KEARNS
THIS WEEK IN CHARLES BRONSON (VIDEO): THE WILD ONE DEBATE: WERE JOHNNY & CHINO LOVERS?
TEENAGE GOLDEN AGE: TALKING BRANDO TO A NEW GENERATION
THE KICK: HOW BRANDO LAUNCHED HOLLYWOOD’S ARCHETYPE OF THE MOTORCYCLE REBEL
GARY SHAPIRO’S FROM THE BOOKSHELF: BURT KEARNS ON BRANDO; BRANDO AT 100
THE HOLLYWOOD GODFATHER (VIDEO): GIANNI RUSSO mEETS THE AUTHOR OF HOLLYWOOD REBEL
HARVEY BROWNSTONE INTERVIEWS (VIDEO): “THE MULTI-TALENTED & PROLIFIC BURT KEARNS”
BEYOND THE RED CARPET (TELEVISION): BURT KEARNS & ‘MARLON BRANDO: HOLLYWOOD REBEL’
ROBERT BELLISSIMO AT THE MOVIES (VIDEO): UNLEASHING MARLON BRANDO’S INFLUENCE!
BURT KEARNS & RAY RICHMOND AT ZIBBY’S BOOKSTORE —- AND A BRANDO CAMEO?! (VIDEOS)
IRA’S EVERYTHING BAGEL (VIDEO): LAST TANGO WITH BRANDO!
THE BIG SHOW WITH BART BUSTERNA (WLAD RADIO): “MARLON BRANDO IN EIGHT-POINT TYPE!”
FOXNEWS.COM (VIDEO): MARLON BRANDO & WALLY COX, SEXUALITY… AND THAT PHOTO
THE MOVIE CLUB: IRV SLIFKIN’S MARLON BRANDO ZOOM EVENT FEATURING AUTHOR BURT KEARNS
RALPH ROMEO, WPAT 930AM NYC (VIDEO): “I SAID I HAVE TO GET THIS MAN ON MY PROGRAM!”
RALPH ROMEO, WPAT 930AM NYC (VIDEO): PART 2 WITH BURT KEARNS & ‘HOLLYWOOD REBEL’
LATER… WITH LEE MATTHEWS: “IT’S GONNA BE A GREAT SUMMER READ!”
THE PETE McMURRAY SHOW: “IN 1973, BRANDO WINS THE OSCAR— HE DOESN’T SHOW UP!”
LEN BERMAN & MICHAEL RIEDEL, 710 WOR NYC: “FASCINATING STORIES ABOUT BRANDO”
FORGOTTEN HOLLYWOOD WITH DOUG HESS: A NEW BOOK ABOUTBRANDO’S INFLUENCE
ARROE COLLINS LIKE IT’S LIVE: ACTING & ACTIVISM… MARLON BRANDO… HOLLYWOOD LEGEND
CHIP HOWARD SPORTS TALK: THE BIGGEST SUPRISES IN RESEARCHING BRANDO’S LIFE
