Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront in 1954The person who brokered my brief meeting with Budd Schulberg that evening was George Kimball, the boxing writer and former Irish Times columnist. And Brando is also at number three with the lines drafted in at the eleventh hour by Schulberg. Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy along with actor Rod Steiger the 1954’s On The Waterfront. “They sent me a hundred bucks and said they’d like to use a few lines,” lamented Schulberg in an interview years later. It was pure Brando - what Kazan had meant when he touted Marlon over Garfield as having that indefinable something.

Source: The Irish Times March 02, 2021 06:00 UTC