"And I’m looking in the cabinet mirror all the time and saying, 'See? That wasn’t so difficult.' It was just horrific."īrando's assistant found Moreno in time to get help after Brando had asked the woman to check on her. "And I finally opened the bottle and put I think about 10 pills in my hand and swallowed them. This is going to be your last breathing moment,'" she said. "It took a long time because I thought, 'If you’re going to do this, this is forever. She said she stared at a bottle of sleeping pills in Brando's bathroom medicine cabinet for almost a half hour before deciding to take them. I just can’t do this.' I felt so humiliated." He was a sweet country boy, who didn’t have a whole lot to say. 'I was going with Marlon Brando at the time and I went out with him to make Marlon jealous. "I was in his bed, and I thought, “I can’t do this to myself anymore. Speaking exclusively to The Sun as the Steven Spielberg remake of the 1961 classic hits cinema screens, Rita, 89, recalls: Elvis was quite sweet, but he was boring. "He was doing 'Mutiny on the Bounty,' and he went to work," she said. Moreno said the deception was "the straw that broke the camel's back." Moreno was targeted recently by Latino activists after defending her friend Lin. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Getty Images. The Night of the Following Day is a 1969 American Technicolor crime film directed by Hubert Cornfield starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno and. It was a very obsessive relationship." Moreno said her turbulent relationship with Brando prompted her to try to take her life by overdosing on sleeping pills. Marlon Brando and Rita Moreno on the set of the film Desiree in 1954. But the question remains: Should Brando really be wasting his time on this sort of movie? I'd rather see him explore the depths he opened up in "Reflections in a Golden Eye." That would be the best route back to Brando the actor, and away from Brando the image."So having said that, I just got disappointed for the last time. Presley may have been a king on stage but compared to Brando, he was a peasant between the sheets, Rita said. Jess Hahn, as the gang leader, has a solid quality to him.Īnd, yes, Brando is good as the old Brando. Rita Moreno (Source: Getty Images) Actress Rita Moreno has revealed that Marlon Brando was better in bed than Elvis Presley. Richard Boone is never more sinister than when he's pretending to be nice. Miss Moreno has a difficult scene with Brando (she's on dope and keeps going to sleep in a bathtub) that she handles with quiet conviction. The final scenes involving Boone and Brando are shot on a beach at dawn and have an almost surrealistic quality. The movie works on this level as a well-made melodrama. While all sorts of things are going wrong with the ransom pickup, Boone is back at the cottage with the kidnapped girl, threatening to do God knows what if they're not back in an hour. ![]() Brando joins a gang of freaky kidnapers ( Rita Moreno on junk Richard Boone as a sado-masochist) and gets involved in a race against time. In any event, "Night of the Following Day" is another of those complicated crime movies, with everybody following enigmatic instructions and planes being rerouted and money being switched in banks and radio towers being blown up to distract the cops. And apparently it has failed Universal has booked it in a few small neighborhood theaters, while a much weaker crime picture (" Pendulum") grabbed the available Loop booking. "Night of the Following Day," however, was apparently made as a Brando showcase. "Reflections in a Golden Eye" was proof that Brando is far from dead as an actor, although he may be finished as a box office draw. ![]() He should abandon attempts to resurrect the "old" Brando and begin a series of small pictures designed to exploit his acting ability. My notion is that Brando should retrench. He demands the big salary, but producers have discovered in the last few years that his appeal is unpredictable. Brando is caught in the same vise as other big name stars ( Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds).
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