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Was Brando channeling Dan Duryea in this film?


Several times I swear I heard Brando sounding exactly like Dan Duryea. Did he study Duryea's voice and intonation before doing this part?

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Brando has always sounded like Dan Duryea. Both men had thin, nasally, fey sounding voices, not deep and masculine like Robert Mitchum or Bea Arthur.

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lol! "And then there's Maude!"

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