[Rarebooks] FS: Playbill--Marlon Brando's first professional role

[Bob Petrilla]

Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein II. MADY CHRISTIANS AND OSCAR
HOMOLKA IN "I REMEMBER MAMA": with Marlon Brando as Nels. NY: The Music
Box, December 24, 1944. First Edition. 44pp. Includes running biographies
of the two stars, both from Vienna, and a brief biog of Marlon Brando.  9"
x 6.5" Very Good. Pictorial Paper Covers.
"Marlon Brando (Nels) makes his first professional appearance in 'I
Remember Mama,' having served his apprenticeship at the New School for
Social Research, where he studied dramatics under Erwin Piscator and Stella
and Luther Adler. Born in Calcutta, India, where his father was engaged in
geological research, he came to this country when he was six months old"
(page 42). This musical opened at The Music Box on October 19, 1944.
(#036682)        $75.00

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