Anna Kashfi

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Anna Kashfi (actually Joan O'Callaghan ; born September 30, 1934 in Darjeeling , British India ; † August 16, 2015 in Woodland , Washington ) was a British - American film actress . She owes her fame above all to her marriage to Marlon Brando .

Life

Anna Kashfi was born in 1934 as the daughter of a Welsh factory worker and grew up in Calcutta , where her father worked for the Indian State Railways as Traffic Superintendent . Before starting her film career, Kashfi worked as a saleswoman in a shop selling Indian imported goods near London's Piccadilly Circus . Her roommate, a young actress, persuaded her to accompany her to an audition in Paris, where director Edward Dmytryk engaged Anna Kashfi, who from then on posed as Indian, on the spot. She made her film debut in 1956 with Paramount in the feature film Der Berg der Temptung , directed by Dmytryk. Kashfi played a young Indian who was rescued by the lead actor Spencer Tracy after a plane crash .

After completing the studio recordings in Hollywood, she met Marlon Brando there. After she became pregnant, Brando and Kashfi were married on October 11, 1957. The marriage was problematic from the start; so Brando learned z. B. two days after the ceremony that Kashfi was by no means Indian, but came from Wales and was actually called Joan O'Callaghan. Nevertheless, Brando and Kashfi moved into a house on Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills . Their son Christian Devi Brando († 2008) was born on May 11, 1958 . Kashfi left the house the following September and filed for divorce on September 30, 1958.

Kashfi continued to work in films. Her second role was in Battle Hymn , a drama from the Korean War staged by Douglas Sirk , in which she played a beautiful Korean teacher alongside Rock Hudson . The film was released in theaters in 1957. The following year she appeared in Delmer Daves ' Western Cowboy (1958) alongside Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon in the role of a Mexican. Kashfi's last feature film was the MGM production Night of the Quarter Moon (1959).

In the course of 1959 a long-term custody battle broke out between Brando and Kashfi over their son. Kashfi, who was also suffering from epilepsy, got into severe personal problems during this time, suffered from depression, attempted suicide and was dependent on drugs and alcohol.

Before Kashfi retired from acting in 1960, she worked in several smaller roles in several American television series. In 1974 she married again; her second husband, James Hannaford, died before her.

After repeatedly forging alliances with the gossip press in the past fighting her ex-husband, she published her memoir in 1979.

Filmography

Fonts

  • Anna Kashfi; EP Stein: Brando for Breakfast. Crown, New York 1979, ISBN 0-517-53686-2 (English).

literature

  • Peter Manso: Brando. The biography. Hyperion, New York 1994, ISBN 0-7868-6063-4 (English).

Web links

Commons : Anna Kashfi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steve Chawkins: Anna Kashfi dies at 80; wife in brief, stormy marriage to Marlon Brando. In: Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2015 (accessed August 25, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Kashfi, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Callaghan, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Darjeeling , British India
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2015
Place of death Woodland , Washington