Listen to Me Marlon Page #4

all of the footage,

but your light comedy performance

in Guys and Dolls

is really terrific, Marlon.

Well, I hope so.

I'm very anxious to see it.

In fact, I'm dying to see it.

How was Vegas?

Paradise. For two weeks I gambled

in green pastures,

the dice were my cousins

and the dolls were agreeable

with nice teeth and no last names.

You don't believe I'm a sinner, do you?

I'm prepared to believe that you are the

biggest sinner I ever met in my life.

It's part of an actor's trade

to be able to play in a light vein

and be an entertainer

as well as a serious storyteller.

And I feel that I perhaps have neglected

that part of my career up to this point.

When I go to set I have a lot of fun,

because it's a gay affair.

It's pleasant to look forward to,

it's a nice way to spend your day,

rather than be in the middle of a miasma

of seriousness and gravity.

As a kid, when I used to sell bottles

and cut lawns

to get my ten cents to go to the movie,

and I would escape everything.

That sense of good feeling,

that got me through the week.

Those moments were magical.

The glittering world premiere

at New York's Capitol Theater

for Samuel Goldwyn's multi-million

dollar production of Guys and Dolls.

Your eyes are the eyes

of a woman in love

And oh, how they give you away

Why try to deny...

Most actors

want to get their name in the paper.

They like all that attention.

I very often am struck

with the illusion of success.

Sometimes it's difficult

when you meet people

because you see

that they have prejudged you,

not to be treated normally.

To have people staring at you

like an animal in a zoo,

or some strange creature

from a distant land.

What it does is remove you from reality.

I can't stand it. I hate it.

I had no idea of how discomforting it is

not to be able to be

just an ordinary person.

You can't imagine

how much of a panic it is.

Really, it scared me to death,

because they were hanging on,

they could've been run over or crushed.

It really is...

I've never seen

a really hysterical crowd.

It's a frightening experience.

Relax, Marlon.

And breathe deeply now.

You don't need to feel frightened,

you don't need to be nervous.

You're very, very comfortable.

Deeply safe,

like when you were with Ermi,

when you slept in her arms,

when you received affection.

Remember those feelings.

She was a governess

hired by my mother.

Lovely Oriental skin.

She had very fine hair.

She was sleeping,

and through the windows

came the moonlight,

and illuminated her body.

I remember arranging myself

on her, over her,

and thinking that she was all mine,

that she belonged to me alone.

Everybody wants a guarantee

that their love is going to be returned.

"I'm going to love you till I die

and we're going to love each other

forever."

All of those adolescent and childish

concepts of what love ought to be.

I remember the night she left.

She went away to get married,

but to a seven-year-old mind,

having been with someone intimately,

it was tantamount to desertion.

In a sense, my mother left me,

because she was alcoholic.

And so did Ermi.

It was from that date that I became

a miscreant, badly behaved.

- Okay.

- Okay.

I'd like to begin by asking you

what consumes your thoughts

in your spare time, when you have any?

Well, my thoughts are...

What do you do?

I'm interested in your face.

You're one of the prettiest

interviewers that I've...

Thank you.

You're one of the most gracious hosts

I've ever met.

- Oh really?

- Yes.

I hope to see you in Chicago.

- We'd like to see you in Chicago.

- We?

Is that the collective "we"

or is that the...

There are many people

who would like to see you in Chicago.

- But you don't?

- Certainly, I do.

Well, I'm representing WNAC in Boston

and our viewing audience

would love to know why you're here

and for you to tell us

about your latest movie.

Excuse me,

I didn't mean to touch your ankle.

Well, what can I tell you about it?

Oh, just some interesting things

that our audience would like to hear...

You talk out of the side of your mouth,

did you ever notice that?

- No, I...

- You talk... It's charming.

Unintentional.

It's a physical idiosyncrasy,

but it's a charming one.

We can't see your right eye.

Talking from the side of my mouth?

Wouldn't want to do that.

Would you like to tell us about behind

the scenes while making the picture?

How far behind the scenes?

Answer me something, is it true?

There are some rumors about you

and Marlon Brando having a romance, huh?

Oh no, we're just good friends.

Just good friends?

Well, it seems the other night,

you were going into Mr Brando's room

and not coming out until early morning.

Is that true?

Well, yes, it's true,

but he is a perfect gentleman.

He's a perfect gentleman. I see.

Is it true there was some love making

going on there?

The people in the next room seem to

have heard some thumping about and...

and some rattling of the bed itself.

Well, I slept with him.

You slept with him?

Well, I don't...

In the same bed.

Well, I don't know if we can

talk about this over the air, I mean...

I hope you folks listening in

will not be...

Just close your ears.

You have what most men want.

You have a lady to f***,

you have a woman who loves you,

you have a...

Guilty, aren't you?

I'm not guilty.

It's just the... It's the tequila.

- It's the what?

- It's the tequila.

I got it.

Past a certain point,

the penis has its own agenda.

It has nothing to do with you

and a lot of your decisions are made

by your penis and not by your brain.

I'd like to show you a wedding picture.

A wedding that took place

on October 11th, 1957.

The man is Marlon Brando.

The woman? A young Indian actress

and a model, Anna Kashfi.

A good con man can fool anybody.

And the first person that you fool

as a con man is yourself.

She found out about other women

in my life

and I had women coming in the door,

going out the window...

The beast aspect of my personality

held sway

and overtook anything that was

reasonable, rational, moral or decent.

Because if you haven't ever been loved,

or ever known love,

you'll never know where it is.

You don't know what it looks like

or sounds like.

You look in the most unlikely places

to find it.

Marriage lasted but a few months,

but a child was born out that coupling.

Christian Devi.

I can remember the baby breathing...

Little tiny baby like that...

Then listening to the heart.

I didn't want my father

to get near Christian.

The day he was born, I said it to myself

with tears in my eyes in the hospital,

"My father is never going

to come near that child,

because of the damage he did to me."

Can I move on to your own acting career

and how your moral beliefs

have affected it?

For example, we associate you

with roles like On the Waterfront,

where you are a man

who is fighting a righteous cause,

a sort of underdog,

you've got the whole union machine

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