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The Original Method Actors: The Lives and Legacies of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Montgomery Clift
The Original Method Actors: The Lives and Legacies of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Montgomery Clift
The Original Method Actors: The Lives and Legacies of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Montgomery Clift
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The Original Method Actors: The Lives and Legacies of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Montgomery Clift

Written by Charles River Editors

Narrated by Mary Rossman

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It would be no exaggeration to say that James Dean has been more mythologized than any other actor in history, a development due more to his off-screen personality and conduct than the films he actually starred in. Much of Dean’s appeal derives from his humble and ordinary origins, and audiences are drawn to the romance of the Indiana farm boy who catapulted to the top of the motion picture industry in a single year — the same year that would see him die. Of course, James Dean remains well-known for being anything but humble and ordinary. As famous as his films are, Dean’s story is inextricably tied to his love for racing cars and his death in a high speed car crash.

Marlon Brando. Few names in the acting profession evoke such a strong, almost visceral reaction. Over the course of his long, prolific career, he was considered perhaps the greatest actor of the 20th century as well as one of the most complicated and misunderstood. Uniquely able to be both emotionally charged and technically constrained in the same performance, he single-handedly changed the direction of not only the American style of acting, influencing successors such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and even Johnny Depp, but the acting profession on a global scale. His iconic interpretations of characters such as Stanley Kowalski (A Streetcar Named Desire), Terry Malloy (On the Waterfront) and Vito Corleone (The Godfather) have been forever burned into the collective memory of film and theatre aficionados, scholars and critics for their immense passion, rage, love, defiance, vulnerability, cruelty and tenderness – basically, the full spectrum of the human condition. With several Oscars and Golden Globes to his name, Brando’s contributions remain the gold standard of the acting craft, and the American Film Institute has listed him as the 4th greatest screen legend in history.  

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 19, 2024
ISBN9798882288128
The Original Method Actors: The Lives and Legacies of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Montgomery Clift

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