was born on April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Marlon Brando, Sr., a calcium carbonate salesman, and his artistically inclined wife, the former Dorothy Julia Pennebaker. However, neither Tracy nor Olivier created an entire school of acting just by the force of his personality. Only the luster of Spencer Tracy's reputation hasn't dimmed when seen in the starlight thrown off by Brando. Brando eclipsed the reputation of other great actors circa 1950, such as Paul Muni and Fredric March. He did not, nor did any other actor so dominate the public's consciousness of what WAS an actor before or since Brando's 1951 on-screen portrayal of Stanley made him a cultural icon. It was if the shadow of John Barrymore, the great American actor closest to Brando in terms of talent and stardom, dominated the acting field up until the 1970s. Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola's Апокаліпсис наших днів (1979), all American actors are still being measured by the yardstick that was Brando. More than 50 years after he first scorched the screen as Stanley Kowalski in the movie version of Tennessee Williams' Трамвай «Бажання» (1951) and a quarter-century after his last great performance as Col. No actor ever exerted such a profound influence on succeeding generations of actors as did Brando. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in 1949, a decision for which he was severely criticized when his star began to dim in the 1960s and he was excoriated for squandering his talents. Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem.
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