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Marlon Brando fury at ‘feeling like a freak’ among revelations in new book of Hollywood secrets
Brando, Ava Gardner, Anita Ekberg and other A-listers are featured in a memoir about the glamour of the 195os film industry
The incident is among the revelations in a memoir by Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner, an American couple who, having arrived in Rome from New York in 1953, became agents, friends and confidants to some of the biggest movie stars, including Anita Ekberg, Ava Gardner and Simone Signoret. In their chapter on Brando’s premiere, they write that when they escorted him to the cinema in a black Cadillac, he was “unprepared for the hysteria” from a “screaming mob” that engulfed him as he emerged from the car. In the memoir, the couple also recall finding Ava Gardner in a “hysterical” state because her lover, the Italian actor Walter Chiari, was “hooked” on cocaine.
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