One day in 1966, Marlon Brando was traveling from New York to London. On the plane, he saw an air stewardess, who was taking care of an ill passenger, sitting very close to Brando. Upon leaving the plane, Brando handed the above note to the stewardess and left.
Transcript:
Dear Lady —
There is something not quite definable in your face — something lovely, not pretty in a conventionally thought of way. You have something graceful and tender and feminine (sp). You seem to be a woman who has been loved in her childhood, or else, somehow by the mystery of genetic phenomena you have been visited by the gifts of refinement, dignity and poise. Perhaps you cannot be accredited with all that.
Irrespective of your gothic aspects, you have passed something on in terms of your expression, mien and general comportment that is unusual and rewarding.
It's been a pleasant if brief encounter and I wish you well and I hope we shall have occasion to cross eyes again sometime.
Best wishes
Marlon Brando
Savoy
(emphasis on mentioning the Savoy, where he would have presumably stayed, while in London. Subtle!)
And while we're on the subject of Brando, here's a rare screen test from 1947 for "Rebel Without a Cause". The screen test had nothing to do with the film that was produced years later, the script fragments were just used as a screen test for Brando - a rather interesting coincidence, bringing together such legends.
And just because:
"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) opening credits
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