Rare Marlon Brando interview on Carson 'toob

[Bob Jersey]

From May 1968. He had just turned down director Elia Kazan, with whom he'd successfully worked before, for the lead role in "The Arrangement" following the killing of Martin Luther King jnr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNWxtr3is6k (link)

[Diner]

Thank you for this. It's fascinating.

And it's wild to see Johnny wearing a turtleneck! Or whatever that thing is. I never knew he went on the show without a tie.

I remember an interview on The Carson Podcast with a woman who was a secretary to one of the show's early producers. She said that when Brando came in for a pre-interview he said something to her along the lines of "You've got a nice body. But you wouldn't look good fat, so be careful not to get fat." Which she now thought was humorous considering what happened to him.

[PGage]

Yes, I enjoyed it very much as well. I am old enough to remember, though just a kid, those few months between the murders of MLK and RFK, when it was still possible to imagine that maybe something good could come out of what was happening. Carson expresses this sentiment, Brando is more skeptical, but struggling to find it. A month later that will feel a lot less likely.

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[Tom Wolper]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 9:37 PM Diner <bway...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for this. It's fascinating.

And it's wild to see Johnny wearing a turtleneck! Or whatever that thing is. I never knew he went on the show without a tie.

Video of the Tonight Show from when it was in New York is fairly rare. From the few I've seen, Johnny is more casually dressed than in the LA years. At some point one of the clothing manufacturers started a Johnny Carson label of suits and he might have started wearing them exclusively to market the label.

[Steve Timko]

I watched the interview and I  can't understand why he couldn't still do the movie and continue to support Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy. 

Ironically, he talks about people not being able to be introspective and recognize their personal racism and the Elia Kazan movie he turned down was about a well-to-do man doing some serious introspection, albeit not about racism. Kirk Douglas got the role.

It was jarring to see him so vibrant. By the mid-1970s he was a muddled mess. His parents were alcoholic but there's no indication Brando was. He was a food addict.

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[Bob Jersey]

Tom Wolper, to Diner, today (3/22):

Thank you for this. It's fascinating.

And it's wild to see Johnny wearing a turtleneck! Or whatever that thing is. I never knew he went on the show without a tie.

Video of the Tonight Show from when it was in New York is fairly rare. From the few I've seen, Johnny is more casually dressed than in the LA years. At some point one of the clothing manufacturers started a Johnny Carson label of suits and he might have started wearing them exclusively to market the label.

IYC, a nostalgia/history/antiques site's page on the (Buffalo-based) Carson line, with magazine ads and a TV spot... https://dustyoldthing.com/johnny-carson-clothing-line/ (link)

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