The next day, the West Side Story star received a call from Elvis Presley's manager: the king of rock 'n' roll wanted to meet. The actor continued to see other women, and Moreno was devastated to find lingerie that didn't belong to her in Brando's home. Moreno told the host that she wanted to marry Brando, but he wasn't interested. 'He was really one of the most sexual men on earth.' Everything,' Moreno dished on The Wendy Williams Show in 2018. 'To say that he was a great lover - sensual, generous, delightfully inventive - would be gravely understating what he did not only to my body, but for my soul,' she wrote in her memoir. If there was one aspect of the relationship that wasn't lacking, it was passion - for better or worse. 'This one, it almost seems like a vignette out of a movie, so that's why it's there. 'Why that picture of Marlon Brando? Because he was a big love of mine in my life,' Moreno told People. RELATED: TBT: Stanley Tucci and Edie Falco's Relationship Began With a Nude SceneĪs of at least 2017, Moreno's Berkley Hills home displayed a black-and-white portrait of the Godfather star. Upon Brando's death in 2004, it was reported that there was only one piece of movie memorabilia on display in his home: a still of him and a nude Moreno from when they were filming The Night of the Following Day in 1968. 'When I inhale it, I inhale the memory of Marlon,' she wrote, 'and I can almost feel his smooth, polished skin and taste his sweet breath.'ĭecades after the relationship ended, both Brando and Moreno's homes bore vestiges of their romance. In her memoir, Moreno revealed that she'd been wearing Brando's favorite perfume (he preferred women's perfume to men's cologne), Balmain's Vent Vert, for over 50 years. The effects of the relationship were lasting.

'It was Marlon who awakened me to things beyond myself.' 'I saw him doing things, getting involved in events to raise awareness about Native Americans and other causes, and I would realize there was a lot going on in the world that I'd never thought about,' she wrote in her 2013 memoir. Why We Loved Them: Though Moreno describes her time with Brando as ' eight years of tumult,' she also credits the actor with making her 'politically conscious.'

The relationship carried on for around eight years, on-and-off - all the while, Brando continued to date myriad women, and even married two of them. We were always going to little obscure restaurants.' 'People for the longest time didn't even know that Marlon and I were seeing each other,' Moreno told Vulture in 2017.

RELATED: TBT: Michelle Pfeiffer Reportedly Nursed Fisher Stevens's Sick Lizard Back to Healthĭespite the breadth and intensity of the affair, it remained relatively unknown to the public. 'I felt awed and out of my league,' Moreno wrote of the evening, but she was 'thrilled to be there, especially with him.' 'Amazingly, he felt the same way, and made no secret about it.'īrando took Moreno to an 'all-star all-Method-actor party' on their first date, where they rubbed shoulders with the likes of Paul Newman, James Dean, and Joanne Woodward. 'From the moment we met, I felt that a web had been spun between us, drawing me to Marlon,' she went on.

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