Marlon Brando random trivia

Even before he let himself go fat and ballon up to over 300 lbs., Brando's eating habits were legendary. "The Men" co-star Richard Erdman claimed Brando's diet circa 1950 consisted "mainly of junk food, usually take-out Chinese or peanut butter, which he consumed by the jarful." By the mid-1950s, Brando was renowned for eating boxfuls of Mallomars and cinnamon buns, washing them down with a quart of milk. Close-friend Carlo Fiore wrote that during the `50s and early 1960's, Brando went on crash diets before his films commenced shooting, but when he lost his willpower, he would eat huge breakfasts consisting of cornflakes, sausages, eggs, bananas and cream, and a huge stack of pancakes drenched in syrup. Fiore was detailed by producers to drag Marlon out of coffee shops. Karl Malden claimed that, during the shooting of "One Eyed Jacks", Brando would have "two steaks, potatoes, two apple pies a'la mode, and a quart of milk" for dinner, necessitating constant altering of his costumes. During a birthday party for Brando, the film's director as well as star, the "Jacks" crew gave him a belt with a card reading "Hope it fits." A sign was placed below the birthday cake saying: "Don't feed the director." Brando reportedly ate at least four pieces of cake that day. His second wife Movita, who had a lock put on their refrigerator to stop pilfering by what she thought was the household staff, awoke one morning to find the lock broken and teeth marks on a round of cheese. The house maid told her that Marlon nightly raided the fridge. Movita also related how Marlon often drove down to hot dog stands late at night, wolfing down as many as six wienies a time. "Mutiny on the Bounty" costumer Jimmy Taylor claimed that Brando split the seat on 52 pairs of pants during the shooting of the film, necessitating that stretch fabric be sewn into Marlon's replacement duds. He split those too. Ice cream was the culprit: Brando would purloin a 5-gallon tub of the fattening desert, row himself out into the lagoon, and indulge. On the set of "The Appaloosa," Brando's double often had to be used for shooting after lunch, and filming could only proceed in long shots, as Brando could no longer fit into his costumes. Dick Loving, who was married to Brando's sister Frannie, said that Marlon used to eat "two chickens at a sitting, and (go) through bags of Pepperidge Farm cookies." It was reported during the filming of "The Missouri Breaks" that the environmentally sensitive Brando fished a frog out of a pond, took a huge bite out of the hapless amphibian, and threw it back into the drink. Living on his island of Tetioroa, Brando created what he called "real-life Mounds Bars" by cracking open a coconut, melting some chocolate in the sun, then stirring it into the coconut for a tasty treat. By the 1980s, there were reports that one of Brando's girlfriends had left him because he failed to keep his promise of losing weight. Marlon seemed to be dieting, but to her astonishment, he never lost weight. She found out that Marlon's buddies had been throwing bags of Burger King Whoppers over the gates of his Mulholland Drive estate late at night to relieve the hunger pangs of their famished friend. In the late `80s, Brando was spotted regularly buying ice cream from a Beverly Hills Ice cream shop: five gallons at a time. He supposedly confessed that he was eating it all himself. Finally, a reported Brando snack was a pound of cooked bacon shoved into an entire loaf of bread. When Brando became ill, he seriously cut back and lost 70 lbs. on a bland diet, but he never lost his love of food and especially ice cream. Oldest son was arrested for murdering his sister's boyfriend in 1990. He was sentenced to 10 years in March 1991 and released in January of 1996. At the 77th Academy Awards ceremony, he was the last person featured in the film honoring film industry personalities who had passed away the previous year.