Vintage matte-finish 8 x 10 photo of Marlon Brando as Napoleon Bonaparte in the 1954 historical romance film Désirée, signed and inscribed in blue ballpoint, "To Sally, I was looking at it when they shot this picture, xxx, Marlon.” In very good to fine condition, with three small holes along the left edge.
Reviewing the film, The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: 'As Napoleon, Marlon Brando is given little opportunity to do more than wear the uniforms and strike the familiar attitudes...although the performance is tentative and uneasy, he carries off some scenes with authority, a suggestion of muffled power, that perhaps indicates what he might have been able to make of the character in a film more ambitiously and imaginatively conceived.' Costume designers Charles Le Maire and René Hubert received Oscar nominations for their impressive work on the film, as seen here in Brando's finely detailed costume.
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