Movie legend Marlon Brando’s Rolodex and contacts book are to go under the hammer at an auction on Thursday (27Apr17).
The links to the late actor’s personal life feature the addresses and phone numbers of thousands of celebrity friends and associates, including Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, and Frank Sinatra.
“There are also dozens of entries highlighting Brando’s deep connection to the Native American community,” Nate D. Sanders Auctions spokesman Samuel Heller tells WENN. “They include tribal leaders, advocacy organizations, government agencies and Native American journalists.
“Rolodex cards for the sheriff’s and public defender’s offices in South Dakota, likely used by Brando to advocate for the rights of Native Americans arrested at Wounded Knee in 1973, are also included. Of particular interest is a card for Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American woman who spoke on behalf of Brando at the 1973 Academy Awards, where he declined his Oscar for The Godfather, to bring attention to the Wounded Knee incident.”
“There’s a section for ham radio, of which Brando was an active user, cards for his various doctors, marine experts including Jacques Cousteau, and an entire section on Catholic bishops,” Heller adds.
Brando’s personal phone book, dated 5 March, 2003 – a year before his death – features the contacts to celebrities like Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Susan Sarandon, Madonna, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, and Drew Barrymore.
It also has several pages devoted to the categories ‘Mosquitos’, ‘Botanists’, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, climatology experts, and an oceanographer. In addition, the phone book includes immigration departments, various consulates and embassies, and hypnotherapists.
The two items are expected to fetch a combined $12,500.
