The casting of Brando inJoseph L. Mankiewicz’sGuys and Dollshas been surrounded by controversy for decades.

The movie earned several Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Brando.

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Marlon Brando in The Fugitive Kind (1960)

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Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra in ‘Guys and Dolls’

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Marlon Brando as Rio wearing a cowboy hat & sweating in the sun in One-Eyed Jacks

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The Young Lions - 1958

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Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, looming in the shadows, staring at the camera

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Mutiny on the Bounty - 1962

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Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski covered in grease and removing his overshirt in A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Marlon Brando sits and holds a glass of wine with Al Pacino across from him in The Godfather, 1972.

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Marlon Brando as Terry in On the Waterfront

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