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Article: Acting legend was brooding, a sharp rebel Actor redefined profession with realistic style, attitude.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2004
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Byline: Dann Gire Daily Herald Film Critic
It happened like a bolt of lightning.
Generic, clean-cut actors in 1951 New York and Los Angeles suddenly showed up for auditions wearing ripped T-shirts and blue jeans and talking funny.
Casting directors instantly knew why.
Brando!
Who would have thought that a mumbling, brooding kid born in Omaha, Neb., would grow up to revolutionize the art of acting, personify the rebel spirit of a generation and batter down the barriers to sexuality on the silver screen?
He did it.