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'I was blacklisted': Native American actress who rejected Marlon Brando's Oscars award on his behalf reveals never worked again in Hollywood and was abandoned by The Godfather actor
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | April 25, 2021 | Caroline Graham

Posted on 04/25/2021 5:09:21 AM PDT by Cecily

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To: lowbridge

It’s free of charge and open to the public.


41 posted on 04/25/2021 6:45:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: USS Alaska
I have watched one of the nominated movies, Another Round, a Danish flick and it was actually very good (I have a thing for Danish stuff as an old girlfriend is Danish). Can't even name another movie nominated.
42 posted on 04/25/2021 6:50:48 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: All
The Oscars should be their usual snoozefest tonight.

Oscars? What is this Oscars you speak of?

Is that the new hotdog by wokegobroke? :D
43 posted on 04/25/2021 6:53:25 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: Cecily

What is the oscars? Ain’t that the show where liberals pat each other on the back for making lousy movies?


44 posted on 04/25/2021 6:54:17 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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To: LuigiBonnafini

Reading the descriptions of the few movies she was in they were the super-woke of their time, like Billy Jack, the New Age Communist wonder movie.


45 posted on 04/25/2021 6:58:33 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Cecily
Hollywood despised American Indians back then and was cheered for it.

Just like today, the left does what they think is “popular” and grant them power. They don’t give a s**t about justice or the plight of others.

46 posted on 04/25/2021 7:00:51 AM PDT by NativeSon ( )
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To: Michael.SF.; healy61

Never forget...

“I coulda been a contender.”


47 posted on 04/25/2021 7:02:50 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: AZJeep

Hmmmmm. I’ve got a stove top that needs cleaning. And a large fluffy orange cat that could use a brushing. So, nope. All booked up.


48 posted on 04/25/2021 7:03:24 AM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: Cecily
Here Brando talks to Cavett's question, "The Oscars...Would you do it again?"

"I was embarrassed for Shasheen, she wasn't able to say what she intended to say. Dispossessed that people should have booed and stomped even though it was directed at myself, I thought she did very well and to have the opportunity to do what she did."

49 posted on 04/25/2021 7:25:22 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: AZJeep

Pawn shops near Beverly Hills and on the Miracle Mile are loaded with Oscars.
“OH, I see you got an Oscar.”
“Who hasn’t?”


50 posted on 04/25/2021 7:26:53 AM PDT by .44 Special (Tp)
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To: USS Alaska
"I do remember that over 30 years ago, alex baldwin played a great Jack Ryan in "Hunt For the Red October"."

Literally the last great Cold War movie.


51 posted on 04/25/2021 7:36:06 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: AZJeep
Oscars used to be big. They actually meant something. Now, I guess, they are all just woke. I am not sure, I have not watch it for decades. Is anybody going to watch it now?!

Aw damn, is it on tonite? Such a shame, I already have plans to clean my kitchen floor using a toothbrush!

52 posted on 04/25/2021 7:40:53 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP)
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Where’s the crying girl?


53 posted on 04/25/2021 7:48:32 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: LuigiBonnafini
Nice link. She transitioned into producing, activism and got a degree in health.

Here is part of her bio from Wiki. I don't know where she would have found the time to be an actress after 1975.

At age 29 her lungs collapsed, and after recovering, she received a degree in health and a minor in Native American medicine, a practice she had used to recover. Studying nutrition, she lived in Stockholm for some time and then traveled around Europe, interested in the food of other cultures. Later, she taught at St. Mary's Hospital in Tucson, Arizona, and worked with the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.[2]

In 1979, she co-founded the National American Indian Performing Arts Registry, which later helped several actors join the production of Dances with Wolves.[26] She shared an Emmy Award as an advisor to PBS's Dance in America: Song for Dead Warriors (1984). She also worked on the PBS shows Remember Me Forever and The Americas Before Columbus (both 1992), and she has produced films on Native American health.[2] In 2009, she gave testimony in the documentary Reel Injun about Native Americans in film.[27]

She continued doing activism and became a respected member of California's Native American community.[3] In the 1980s, she led prayer circles for Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American Catholic saint.[20] In 1988, she worked with Mother Teresa helping AIDS patients in hospice care, later founding the American Indian AIDS Institute of San Francisco.[3] She campaigned against obesity, alcoholism, and diabetes, and specifically assisted Native Americans with AIDS, including her brother.[28]

54 posted on 04/25/2021 7:54:02 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rocko Jack

Yet the Dems allowed the Cherokee to take their slaves with them , leading to a slave revolt in Oklahoma in 1842.

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SL002


55 posted on 04/25/2021 7:59:03 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: AZJeep
Is anybody going to watch it now?!

Well before and during my decades long film and TV production career, I used to live for Oscar night. Now, years later, I find it to be a very healthy sign that I didn't even know it was on tonight until reading this thread.

56 posted on 04/25/2021 8:01:29 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Cecily
Do you mean to tell me the Academy Awards are still in business? I thought they had gone the way of the silent movies.

Who watches those things?

57 posted on 04/25/2021 8:06:56 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("A nation of sheep will be controlled by wolves.")
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To: LuigiBonnafini
you look at her IMDB page, she kept pretty busy after that little incident.

The 1973 Oscars were held in late March. She has a grand total of 7 movies in her IMDB profile. Two of which were 1973 releases and were probably already in the can at that point. The other five are bit parts that span from 1974 to 1978. I wouldn't call that "pretty busy." But, that could also be attributed to being a crappy actress, too. Or being a pain in the ass to work with.

58 posted on 04/25/2021 8:10:16 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Cecily

Such rich irony! Brando was protesting the stiffing of the indians then he stiffs Ms Littlebeaver!😎


59 posted on 04/25/2021 8:16:11 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: FatherofFive

“Great big feather! Not quite the starving actress....”

Too much fry bread.


60 posted on 04/25/2021 8:18:58 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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