Brando : [electronic resource] the biography / Peter Manso.

Also issued online.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1085]-1094) and index.

"From growing up the son of alcoholic, philandering parents to his recent public agony as the father of a convicted killer, Marlon Brando has lived a life beset by personal demons. Behind the myth, beneath his immense fame and fortune, he is a troubled man whom few people really know. For the first time, Brando unveils him whole: from the height of his talents to the depths of his despair; his sexual compulsions, the endless years of psychotherapy, the girlfriends who've committed suicide, his eating disorders, his notorious psychological manipulations, his lifelong love/hate relationships with his children (legitimate and not), his involvement with the radical American Indian Movement, and his controversial seclusion in Tahiti. Gripping, astonishing, and utterly revealing, Brando is both a towering achievement and exactly the biography that its subject so richly deserves."--BOOK JACKET.

Prologue -- Omaha: 1893-1930 -- Evanston: 1930-38 -- Libertyville: 1938-41 -- Shattuck: 1941-43 -- New York - Sayville: 1943-44 -- New York - Provincetown: 1944-47 -- New York: Offstage: 1945-48 -- Streetcar and the Actors Studio: 1947-49 -- Hollywood: 1949-53 -- Waterfront: 1953-54 -- Flailing: 1954-58 -- Turning a corner: 1958-62 -- The sixties (I): 1962-68 -- The sixties (II): 1963-71 -- The Godfather and Last tango in Paris: 1970-73 -- The American Indian movement: 1972-76 -- Tahiti: 1972-83 -- The eighties: 1982-89 -- The shooting: 1990-94 .