In 1954 Marlon Brando came to Bandol, a small town near Toulon, to visit his fiancée Josanne Mariani-Bérenger, daughter of a fisherman. "I waited around discreetly and had just got my Leica ready when suddenly a Vespa scooter came speeding around the corner in a cloud of dust. It was Brando with a girl clinging closely to him. They stopped and quickly went inside a house." Bandol 1954.
The aftermath of Marlon Brando’s dramatic arrival in Bandol, 1954, to visit his fiancée, Josanne Mariani-Bérenger. Viewed from inside a car, this photograph captures the Vespa scooter he was riding lying on its side in a narrow, sunlit street. A hazy cloud of dust hangs in the distance, while a man in a white coat stands in the doorway of a "Coiffeur" on the right. Laundry hangs from an upper-floor clothesline above shuttered windows, completing the candid scene.
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