In Truman Capote’s Profile of Marlon Brando, published in 1957, he writes of “the chameleon ease” with which Brando transforms himself into the character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams “A Streetcar Named Desire... “The Duke in His Domain” (1957): Truman Capote profiles Marlon Brando during the filming of Joshua Logan’s “Sayonora,” in Kyoto, Japan. “I was never sure about acting,” Brando says. “Then, when I was in ‘Streetcar,’ and it had been running a couple of months, one night—dimly, dimly—I began to hear this roar. It was like I’d been asleep, and I woke up here sitting on a pile of candy.”
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