8 main women and the first love of the "godfather": the skillful seducer Marlon Brando

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Marlon Brando charmed women literally at first sight and proudly declared that it would take him no more than two minutes to conquer the heart of any beauty. But only seven of the fair sex of all his many girlfriends were able to keep the “godfather's” attention for longer than one night. And yet the most serious mark in the soul of Marlon Brando was left by his first love, which left an imprint on his whole life and even romantic preferences.

The first love

As a child, the future actor desperately lacked parental love. My father was a rather wealthy man, but extremely despotic. The mother abused alcohol and did not even try to caress her son in any way. The father only knew that he was treating his son for all sorts of reasons, the mother showed much more interest in cats than in her own child.

But little Marlon Brando had a wonderful nanny Ermi. This girl with Indonesian roots, it seems, was the only one who was interested in him at all. She went with him for walks in the park, played, fed, put him to bed. And she did not even hesitate to change clothes in front of her pupil. It so happened that Ermie not only replaced her mother for the future actor, but also became his first childhood love.

When the nanny told him that she was only leaving for a few days, Marlon waited. But days went by, and Ermi still did not return. Later, he suddenly realized: the nanny had left him too, and there was no one else in the world who needed him. Many years will pass, and the world famous Marlon Brando will still look for Ermy in all his women. And he will give himself his word never to love anyone, so that it no longer hurts as much as at the moment when he realized he was abandoned. Brando was invariably the first to abandon his women for fear of being unnecessary again.

Reiko Sato

He felt sympathy for the Japanese actress and dancer already at the moment of their first meeting, so the romance began quickly. Marlon Brando even contributed to Reiko's invitation to the film "Ugly American", where he played the main role. True, this did not help the career of a charming Japanese woman too much, and she chose to become a theater actress. And her romance with Marlon Brando soon ended, although Sato and Brando kept friendly relations for life.

Marilyn Monroe

They accidentally ran into at a party, and after two weeks Brando called the actress and simply announced that he was eager to meet her right now. Later, the actor will write in his memoirs about a short romance with Monroe, although his biographer Darwin Porter claimed that the two Hollywood legends continued to meet periodically until the very day the film star died.

Katie Jurado

In this Mexican actress, the actor saw almost himself in a female embodiment. However, there was not even a romance between them, but a tender friendship. They felt each other incredibly keenly, Katie confessed that she and Brando were kindred spirits, and the actor himself could not take his eyes off her eyes, which he called "black as hell."

Rita Moreno

The Puerto Rican actress could not even imagine how much torment an affair with a Hollywood playboy would bring her. She fell in love with him at first sight and plunged into this relationship. When Rita realized that she was far from the only woman in Brando's life, she experienced a terrible shock. Brando forbade her to give birth, she almost died on the operating table after complications caused by an abortion, and later tried to commit suicide. Rita Moreno needed a job with a psychiatrist who helped her get rid of the painful addiction to Brando.

Anna Kashfi

This was the first woman who was able to marry Marlon Brando. True, for this she had to pretend to be an Indian and charm him with tales of the years spent on the banks of the Ganges. It seems that Brando completely lost his head from the sexy Anna. After the wedding, the actor learned that his young wife was born and raised in Wales. He wanted to file for divorce immediately, but Anna Kashfi informed her husband about her pregnancy. When the baby was born, Marlon Brando again threw himself into all seriousness. Now Anna longed to get rid of the marriage bonds that were weighing on her as soon as possible. The marriage was dissolved two years after the wedding.

Movita Castaneda

The Mexican actress was seven years older than the actor and was not considered a beauty, but she had some absolutely incredible attraction for men. There were rumors that the first marriage proposal made by Marlon Brando was rejected, and the ring presented to Movita was immediately thrown out the window. All this action was accompanied by threats from the "bride" to report the actor to the police for harassment. But how could all this have stopped Brando, if he really intended to go with Castaneda down the aisle ?! In June 1960, the actress became his wife. A year later, he again turned out to be a bachelor, because, as it turned out, Movita's previous marriage had not been dissolved by the time of the wedding.

Tarita Teriipia

He could not pass by the Frenchwoman, in whose veins Polynesian and Chinese blood flowed. Their acquaintance took place at the casting of the film "Mutiny at the Bounty", where Brando chose an actress to work with. Filming in this film led to an early marriage that lasted ten years. The family had two children - Simon Teihotu and Tarita Cheyenne, and Brando also adopted Maimiti and Raiatua, the wife's illegitimate daughter and niece. In addition, he had another adopted child - Petra Brando-Corval, the daughter of his assistants. The actor set up a family nest in Tahiti, and Tarita for the sake of Brando abandoned her artistic career, devoting herself to her husband and children. True, the fact that the actress no longer acted in films, Brando himself had a hand in using all his influence in Hollywood. After Marlon Brando passed away, Tarita published a book of memoirs about their life together, one name of which speaks very eloquently about this marriage: "Marlon, my love and my torment."

Maria Cristina Ruiz

Marlon Brando's last long-term relationship was with his own servant. Maria gave Brando three children, but he never called her to marry. The offended woman tried to sue the actor for $ 100 million, but then failed.

After Maria, Marlon Brando did not have a long romance, but eight maidservants mourned him at the coffin at once, each of whom could call him her beloved.

1960 was a turning point for Marlon Brando - it was then that the film "Mutiny on the Bounty" was filmed, during which he met his third wife Tarita Teriipia, and also saw the Tetiaroa atoll for the first time. Later, after five years, the actor bought this atoll from French Polynesia for 99 years and did everything to preserve its magnificent nature and turn it into a paradise on earth.