Marlon Brando Personal Script “A Countess from Hong Kong” 1967 COA Provenance

Directly from Marlon Brando’s House on Mulholland dr in Los Angeles where he lived from 1958 until his death in 2004.  This was obtained from the Christie’s in 2005 which auctioned all of the items from his estate. The original Christies catalog accompanies the script, and photos.

Arguably, Marlon Brando is one of the most iconic actors of the 20th & 21st Centuries.  No one has been able to master Brando’s talents to date.  It is an honor to own anything that he used for the tool of his trade.  This script is just that, a tool to his masterful trade of acting.  He handled this script, used it, touched it and his energy still lives within these pages.

“Chaplin was an actor I had always admired greatly.  Some of his films, such as City Lights still move me to tears as well as laughter.  Chaplin knew exactly what the audience would experience.  I don’t know if it was conscious or instinctive but he understood the myth he had created with the Little Tramp and attached himself to it tenaciously.  I still look up to him as perhaps the greatest genius that the medium has ever produced  I don’t think anyone else has ever had the talent he did he made everyone else look Lilliputian.  But as a human being, he was a mixed bag, just like all of us. Chaplis was a man of sizeable talent and I was not going to argue with him about what was funny and not funny.  I must say we didn’t start off very well.  I  went to London for the reading of the script and Chaplin read for us.  I had jet lag and I went right to sleep during his reading.  That was terrible.” Marlon Brando

A Countess From Hong Kong, 1967 Movie Script.   A collection of material relating to A Countess From Hong Kong including a script with the paper covers, 152pp of typescript, two black and white and one color stills a shooting schedule dated January 18, 1966, and a unit list.