MARLON BRANDO & FRANK SINATRA Inside Their LEGENDARY FEUD

THE ANIMOSITY BETWEEN THESE TWO ICONS NEARLY LED TO BLOODSHED DURING THE FILMING OF 1955’S GUYS AND DOLLS

On a balmy LA night, Marlon Brando pulled his motorcycle into a rest stop and was surprised by three men with a gun who forced him into the back seat of a car. They threatened to kill or castrate the actor, but ultimately released him unharmed. Carlo Fiore, a friend of Marlon’s, claimed the actor was “sure Sinatra was behind” the scare tactic. The bad blood between Marlon and Frank Sinatra, co-stars in 1955’s Guys and Dolls, began a year before when Marlon won the part in On the Waterfront that Frank coveted. “Sinatra felt that role was his,” explains James Kaplan, author of Sinatra: The Chairman, who says that Frank carried his hurt feelings to the set of Guys and Dolls. “It was really one-sided, with Frank detesting the ground…

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