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BRANDO WAS FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Monday, July 5 2004
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In the wake of the death of Marlon Brando, last week, L. Robert Morris, co-author of Lawrence of Arabia: The 30th Anniversary Pictorial History, recalled in an email message on Friday the little-known fact that producer Sam Spiegel originally announced that Brando would play the title role in the epic movie. "In a way, they [Brando and Lawrence] are very much alike," Spiegel said at the time. "Both have that mystic, tortured quality of doubting their own destiny. ... There is practically nobody else of international magnitude who could play the part." In the end, however, amid reports of problems and shooting delays on the set of Brando's Mutiny on the Bounty, said to have been created in part by the actor's "difficult" behavior, Brando was replaced by the relatively unknown (at the time) Peter O'Toole. Director David Lean, Morris wrote, had also come to the conclusion "that Lawrence would have become Brando of Arabia."
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