His cruelty extended to inviting Dean over and making him watch as he had sex with somebody he had just met on the street.īrackett said: 'When Brando was out on one of his many dates Jimmy would often stalk him, even following him home. Prince and Porter say that Brackett thought there was a 'terrible loneliness' in Dean and that despite asking him to be in a monogamous relationship, he could not keep him away from Brando.īrackett said that Brando rubbed it in Dean's face that he was having affairs with other people. 'I think Brando was sadistically using Jimmy, who followed him around like a lovesick puppy with his tongue wagging.'
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Brando seemed to be toying with Jimmy for his own amusement. 'I got the impression that Jimmy was engaged in a cat-and-mouse affair with Brando, with Brando being the cat, of course. He said: 'Dean talked frequently about Brando and how frustrated he was in the relationship.
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Haggert thought that Brando 'deliberately wanted him lean and mean on the streets, looking for a handout'. Stanley Haggert, another of Dean's friends, said that Dean never had any money and that he thought Brando 'wouldn't lend him a cent'. In my opinion, Brando was in love with Brando'.ĭean ditched his trademark white t-shirt and jeans and started to dress smarter and more like Brando. 'I met Brando only three times and each time he was with Jimmy. As for Brando, I don't think he ever loved Jimmy. 'I really believe that Jimmy fell in love with Brando that year. 'Jimmy and I used to sit and talk for hours in my room at the Algonquin Hotel (in New York). Of course, the words "sexual fidelity" would be unknown in each of their vocabularies. Wilder said: 'They were definitely a couple. Stella Adler, the actress and acclaimed acting teacher, said that after that she saw Brando 'everywhere' with Dean. Prince and Porter claim that Brando downplayed the extent of his relationship with Dean In Songs My Mother Taught Me.īut it was quite apparent for their celebrity friends who included playwright Tennessee Williams, composer Alec Wilder and Rogers Brackett, a Manhattan advertising executive who was Dean's on-off boyfriend.ĭean is said to have told Brackett that Brando was 'completely in charge of our love-making'.īrackett recalled Dean saying: 'I got to make love to Brando, which is something I've been longing to do every since I first heard about him….he told me what he wanted and I went along for the ride.' The two men made small talk about Dean's ability to predict days that people would die - he got his own wrong - before a long pause when they looked into each other's eyes.īrando leaned in and kissed him, the book says.
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Instead it was in 1949 when, after an extended stay in Paris, Brando flew back to New York to make a public appearance at the Actors Studio where he had studied under Strasberg.įollowing his lead role in A Streetcar Named Desire on both the stage and the screen Brando was being idolized and wanted to give a speech at his alma mater.Īt the back of the audience was a young man who Brando would later describe to Bobby Lewis, one of the founders of the actor's studio, as staring at him so intently he 'felt my skin burning'.īrando thought that Dean had a 'childlike sincerity' and thought Dean was in love with him - and he was right.Īfterwards Dean introduced himself by telling Brando that he was his 'greatest fan' and that he was confused about many things but 'not confused in my admiration for you'. They reveal that the first time Brando met Dean was not on the set of East of Eden in 1954 as he claimed in his own memoir, 'Songs My Mother Taught Me'. The book is based on conversations with sources and veteran gossip journalists who had known Dean before his death in 1955 at the age of 24. In James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes, which is due out next on Blood Moon Productions, authors Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince reveal that their relationship was far more complex than had been thought. In some ways Dean was considered the successor to Brando and only got his roles in Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden because Brando turned them both down. The two men both studied under acting coach Lee Strasberg, they were both discovered by director Elia Kazan and they were both intense, brooding characters. But a book says the two men were engaged in a sadomasochistic relationship, with Brando the exploiter Brando had turned down a role in the movie, but was photographed behind the scenes while Dean was filming. On set: Brando and Dean on the set East of Eden in 1955.