Jocelyn Brando

Actress + Writer + Poet

Female

Born Nov 18, 1919

Hometown San Francisco, Ca...

Died Nov 27, 2005

Death Place Santa Monica, Cal...

Jocelyn Brando was an American film, stage and television actress. Her film debut came in the war movie China Venture (1953) with Edmond O'Brien and Barry Sullivan. Her best-known movie role was as detective Glenn Ford's doomed wife in the gangster film… Read More

Family

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Jocelyn Brando

d.2005

parents

Marlon Brando, Sr.
Father, d.1965

siblings

Marlon Brando
Brother, d.2004

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Gumshoes, Dubliners And Deneuve
NYTimes - Nov 01, 2009

North By Northwest (1959) Not to sound churlish about such a lavish and witty entertainment as Alfred Hitchcock's ''North by Northwest,'' but coming as it did in 1959, a year after ''Vertigo,'' the director's richest film, it has sometimes been hard to see anything personal in this dexterous display of professionalism. But if ''North by Northwest''
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Eliot Asinof, Writer, Is Dead At 88
NYTimes - Jun 11, 2008

Eliot Asinof, whose journalistic re-creation of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, ''Eight Men Out,'' became a classic of both baseball literature and narrative nonfiction, died Tuesday in Hudson, N.Y. He was 88 and lived in Ancramdale, N.Y. The cause was complications of pneumonia, his son, Martin, said. A writer whose shrewdness and insight trumped his
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Corrections
NYTimes - Dec 07, 2005

An obituary by The Associated Press last Wednesday about Jocelyn Brando, an actress and the sister of Marlon Brando, misstated the origin of the surname she used in private life, Pennebaker. It was her mother's maiden name, not her married name. (Her first husband was Don Hanmer and her second husband was Eliot Asinof.)
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Jocelyn Brando Actress, 86
NYTimes - Nov 30, 2005

Jocelyn Brando, who appeared in more than a dozen films, including two with her younger brother, Marlon, died on Sunday at her home here. She was 86. Ms. Brando, whose married surname was Pennebaker, died of natural causes, said her son Martin Asinof of Tillamook, Ore. Ms. Brando appeared on Broadway in the late 1940's as the leading nurse in
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1919 Birth Born on November 18, 1919.

TWENTIES

1942 22 Years Old She made her Broadway debut soon after her 22nd birthday, appearing in The First Crocus at the Longacre Theatre on January 2, 1942; the play closed after five performances. … Read More

1947 27 Years Old Even before that, however, in the fall of 1947, both Jocelyn and Marlon would become two of the first fifty or so members of New York's newly formed Actors Studio, Jocelyn studying with Elia Kazan, Marlon with Robert Lewis.

1948 28 Years Old On February 18, 1948, Jocelyn appeared in her second role on Broadway, which was considerably more successful than her debut. … Read More

THIRTIES

1950 30 Years Old Jocelyn did not complete the run of the play, appearing in the comedy The Golden State in the 1950-51 season, a flop that lasted but 25 performances.

1952 32 Years Old She rebounded with the critically acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful, 1952 revival of O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, which ran for only 46 performances. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1981 61 Years Old Many fans of the 1981 film Mommie Dearest believe Jocelyn portrayed actress Barbara Bennett, sister to Constance Bennett and Joan Bennett, in the movie, but this is incorrect. … Read More

2005 86 Years Old Died on November 27, 2005.

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