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Marlon Brando was perhaps the greatest film actor of his generation. He was born in 1924 and people soon realised that he was

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talented. However, he never did very well at school and he never

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seemed to be interested in  education. When he finally left school,

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he travelled to New York, where he became a student at drama school. There, he heard about the ideas of the Russian Konstantin Stanislavski, who had developed a way to bring acting closer to

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reality. Brando used Stanislavski's ideas in his acting and during

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the 1940s he appeared in  various plays on Broadway.                              

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The critics liked him and he slowly became better known. His first major success  was in the film "A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)".                            

He became world famous and a star was born.

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