Barbra Streisand (left) photographed in 1980 and Marlon Brando (right) photographed in 1950.Photo:Images Press/Getty; John Kobal Foundation/Getty
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Barbra Streisandis revealing juicy details about her relationship withMarlon Brando.
The late actor allegedly said, “I’d like to f— you.”
“She turned him down,” the outlet continues, “but they became lifelong friends and phone pals.”
TheYentldirector-star also says that Brando’s wife at the time, French Polynesian actress Tarita Teriipaia, was in an adjoining room when he made the proposition.
Vanity Fairteased further details from the tell-all memoir, including Streisand’s memory of her friend calling her to offer a critique of herOscar-winningperformance in the 1968 filmFunny Girl.“You were really good, but you run funny,” Brando allegedly told her.
Brando, whodied in 2004, was married three times: to Anna Kashfi (from 1957 to 1959), Movita Castaneda (1960 to 1962) and Teriipaia (1962 to 1972).
In a2012 interview, Streisand told CNN’s Piers Morgan about another time she refused Brando’s advances. TheGodfatherstar, she said, “wanted to take me to the desert, to see the wildflowers [and] sleep over in a ghost town.”
She added, “I was such a nice Jewish girl that I just said, ‘Marlon, I can’t stay overnight with you. I’ll go with you for the day.’”
Barbra Streisand photographed on July 1, 2023 in Malibu, California.Kevin Mazur/Getty
Kevin Mazur/Getty
In a2021 appearance onThe Tonight Show,theA Star Is Bornactress recalled for Jimmy Fallon that her opening line to Brolin, 83, upon seeing that he had shaved his head for a role, was “Who f—ed up your hair?”
Streisand also told Fallon about the time the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis offered in 1984 toedit her memoir. However, Streisand hadn’t written one yet due to her busy schedule.
“We had tea, and she was just so lovely,” Streisand said of the First Lady.
Of writing the memoir, she added at the time, “I was always busy doing something else, so I would write in the journals, then go on to something else… the pandemic helped me finish the book.”
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