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Book reveals Marlon Brando & James Dean had S&M Relationship
EXCLUSIVE: Marlon the master and James Dean his slave: Stars had 'secret master and slave S&M relationship' as Streetcar Named Desire star stubbed out cigarettes on his younger lover
- New book claims James Dean was in love with Marlon Brando and they become lovers - but it was a twisted S&M affair
- Brando was 'only in love with Brando' and would make Dean loiter outside his apartment in the desperate hope his idol would invite him in for sex
- When Dean first met Brando, in 1949, he told him he was 'his biggest fan' and the two kissed
- Dean showed Rogers Brackett, a Manhattan advertising executive who was his on-off boyfriend, how Brando stubbed out cigarettes oh him
- Book, called James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes, also claims Dean had a gay threesome with Walt Disney and My Fair Lady director George Cukor
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James Dean and Marlon Brando had a secret sadomasochistic relationship fueled by the Godfather star's ego and insatiable desire for control, a new book claims.
The two men would meet up for master and servant style sex sessions where Dean asked to be burned with cigarettes, it alleges.
Friends revealed that Brando was so in charge that he made Dean watch him have sex with strangers who he had just met as part of a twisted mind game.
Brando never reciprocated Dean's love and played a 'cat-and-mouse game' with his younger lover for his own amusement.
Friends said that Dean was like a 'puppy dog' who would loiter outside Brando's apartment in the cold - in the desperate hope his idol would invite him in for sex.
Dean and Brando were two of the icons of their generation but their dark personal currents drew them together, the book says.
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Master and slave: Dean (front) and Brando (seated) were pictured together in 1954. A new book says they had a master/slave relationship with Brando, the bigger star, engaging in twisted mind games with the younger man
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The two men both studied under acting coach Lee Strasberg, they were both discovered by director Elia Kazan and they were both intense, brooding characters.
The book is based on conversations with sources and veteran gossip journalists who had known Dean before his death in 1955 at the age of 24.
They reveal that the first time Brando met Dean was not on the set of East of Eden in 1954 as he claimed in his own memoir, 'Songs My Mother Taught Me'.
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On set: Brando and Dean starred together in East of Eden in 1955 and were photographed relaxing on set. But a book says the two men were engaged in a sadomasochistic relationship, with Brando the exploiter
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Instead it was in 1949 when, after an extended stay in Paris, Brando flew back to New York to make a public appearance at the Actors Studio where he had studied under Strasberg.
Following his lead role in A Streetcar Named Desire on both the stage and the screen Brando was being idolized and wanted to give a speech at his alma mater.
At the back of the audience was a young man who Brando would later describe to Bobby Lewis, one of the founders of the actor's studio, as staring at him so intently he 'felt my skin burning'.
Brando thought that Dean had a 'childlike sincerity' and thought Dean was in love with him - and he was right.
Afterwards Dean introduced himself by telling Brando that he was his 'greatest fan' and that he was confused about many things but 'not confused in my admiration for you'.
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Dean is said to have told Brackett that Brando was 'completely in charge of our love-making'.
Brackett recalled Dean saying: 'I got to make love to Brando, which is something I've been longing to do every since I first heard about him….he told me what he wanted and I went along for the ride.'
Stella Adler, the actress and acclaimed acting teacher, said that after that she saw Brando 'everywhere' with Dean.
Wilder said: 'They were definitely a couple. Of course, the words "sexual fidelity" would be unknown in each of their vocabularies.
'Jimmy and I used to sit and talk for hours in my room at the Algonquin Hotel (in New York). He kept me abreast of the affair.
'I really believe that Jimmy fell in love with Brando that year. As for Brando, I don't think he ever loved Jimmy.
'I met Brando only three times and each time he was with Jimmy. In my opinion, Brando was in love with Brando'.
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He said: 'Dean talked frequently about Brando and how frustrated he was in the relationship.
'I got the impression that Jimmy was engaged in a cat-and-mouse affair with Brando, with Brando being the cat, of course. Brando seemed to be toying with Jimmy for his own amusement.
'I think Brando was sadistically using Jimmy, who followed him around like a lovesick puppy with his tongue wagging.'
Prince and Porter say that Brackett thought there was a 'terrible loneliness' in Dean and that despite asking him to be in a monogamous relationship, he could not keep him away from Brando.
Brackett said that Brando rubbed it in Dean's face that he was having affairs with other people.
His cruelty extended to inviting Dean over and making him watch as he had sex with somebody he had just met on the street.
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ragic end: Dean crashed his Porsche the same year that Rebel Without A Cause made him a pin-up.
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During one dinner Brackett was shocked when Dean took off his shirt to reveal that he was covered in burns in his chest.
When he looked closer he could see they were caused by cigarettes that Dean said Brando had forced into his skin.
Brackett said: 'I was practically ready to call the police on the brutal son-of-a-bitch until Jimmy told me that he'd asked Brando to do that to him.
'For the first time in my life I came to realize what a masochist Jimmy was - or was becoming'
According to Truman Capote, there was no doubt about the relationship between Dean and Brando but the way he saw it, there was no love - just sex.
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The book claims that another of Dean's lovers was Walt Disney, who faced repeated rumors that he was secretly gay.
In 1976, a decade after he died, gossip newspaper The Hollywood Star ran a front page story with the headline: 'Walt Disney Was Homosexual' which purported to reveal the truth.
Porter and Prince say that, according to dozens of sources, Disney was indeed gay and that he supposedly rented apartments in Los Angeles under different names where he would meet lovers.
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