Get travel news, updates & tips Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra hated each other – One was so scared he 'hired bodyguards'

Express ^ | 6/30/2022 | kyriazis

[RummyChick]

One of Tinseltown's biggest and most iconic stars was tossed out of a car, beaten and bloodied after a horrifying night when he was threatened with castration and death. He told a friend he was "p***ing blood" and was so traumatised "I sh** my pants." Hollywood, especially in the glorious Golden Age, has been filled with famous feuds and affairs – often connected and often ending very badly. Brando, who died on July 1, and Sinatra were probably fairly typical of leading men in their era, both with voracious sexual appetites (the former notoriously for women and men). However, one of them also had terrifying connections which escalated their clash to terrifying levels. The Brando biography Unzipped by Darwin Porter reports his close friend Carlo Fiore's account of a night when the star disappeared while out riding his motorbike. Fiore was woken at 2am and rushed downstairs to find the actor in great distress.

Fiore said: "He looked like he'd just visited hell and escaped with his life...

[markman46]

Old rock like them young, was the worse kept secret that he a fan. Lancaster never new about him, but it’s Hollywood. I am sure lapd has lots of stories

[JennysCool]

Sinatra got a chance a couple of years later to make up for that Guys and Dolls disappointment with Pal Joey. That was definitely his element.

[Veto!]

A few footnotes:

I was in high school when Brando first appeared on the screen. All the girls thought he was quite the hunk. I lived in a Chicago suburb, Marlon was from downstate somewhere. In the good old days of phone books, we looked up Marlon’s family’s phone and called several times saying, “Is Marlon there?” apparently they got so many calls, they must have changed their phone number.

And re Sinatra: Gloria Vanderbilt, Anderson Cooper’s mother said she loved sleeping with Frank, but he had so many women after him, he never stayed with one woman for more than two weeks. I read that in their wonderful book, “The Rainbow Comes and Goes.” I read. it after my son died and found it enormously helpful. Anderson’s brother committed suicide at age 22 right in front of his mother. Took her two years to stop crying.