>Actor Richard Erdman, a fellow actor in “The Men”, says Marlon’s diet at the time consisted of “junk food, take out, and peanut butter”, which he consumed by the jarful.
>By the mid-fifties, Marlon had become renowned for eating boxes of Mallomars and Cinnamon Buns, and washing his sweet treats down with a quart of milk.
>Kark Malden, a close friend, said that during the shooting of “One Eyed Jacks” Brando would eat “two steaks, potatoes, two apple pies a la mode, and a quart of milk” for dinner.
>His second wife, Movita, actually put a lock on the house refrigerator. But when she awoke one morning, the lock was broken and Marlon’s teeth marks were found on a round of cheese.
>Brando also loved to frequent hot dog stands late at night, particularly the L.A. hot dog joint Pink’s at 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning, where he’d wolf down as many as six hot dogs at a time.
>In what was possibly Marlon’s strangest eating exploit, it was reported that during the filming of “Missouri Breaks”, he fished a frog out of a pond, took a bite out of it, and put it back in the drink
>By the 1980s, it was reported that one of Brando’s girlfriends had left him because he wouldn’t keep his promise to lose weight. He always seemed to be dieting, but the pounds weren’t coming off much. Unknown to her, he had some of his buddies throw bags of Burger King Whoppers over the gates of his Mulholland Drive estate.
>Later in the ’80s, Marlon was routinely spotted at a Beverly Hills ice cream parlor buying five gallon containers of ice cream which he would eat all himself. Reportedly, one of his favorite snacks around this time was a full pound of cooked bacon placed in an entire loaf of bread.
>Living on the island of Tetiorova, Marlon liked to create his own “real life mounds bars”, cracking open a coconut, melting some chocolate in the sun, then stirring it in the coconut for a tasty treat.
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