Marlon Brando‘s birthday today. We figured we’d feature the classic letter (belatedly discovered) written, circa 1957, to him by Jack Kerouac – “Dear Marlon, I’m praying you’ll buy On The Road and make a movie of it…”
Nothing sadly came of it. (“Brando is a shit, doesn’t answer letter from (the) greatest writer in America and he’s only a piddling king’s clown of the stage” (JK to AG, November 30. 1957))
Jack Kerouac photo for Michael Grieg’s “The Lively Arts in San Francisco” article in the February 1957 issue of Mademoiselle magazine.
Marlon Brando (1924-2004) – Photograph by Philippe Halsman
It’s also the birthday today of George Herbert