In Mann’s telling, Brando’s personal troubles were forged in his upbringing in the Midwest, first in his birthplace of Omaha, Nebraska, then in the small town of Libertyville, Illinois.

Marlon Brando Jr. was born April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska. ... As the family moved around, ending up at a farm in Libertyville, Illinois, the increasingly angry, ...

I asked what Brando wanted. She said it was something about my book Tough Jews.It was my first book, published in the spring of 1998. It was a story of the old Jewish gangsters mostly of ...

Aside from the literary assistant, the gang consisted of Marlon Brando, Sr., who acts as his son’s business manager; a pretty, ... Libertyville, Illinois. Living alone in furnished rooms, ...

A young Marlon Brando was said to have worked as an usher at the theater, situated on 1.2 acres across from the Metra commuter station at the southeast corner of Milwaukee and Newberry avenues.