말론 브란도(Marlon Brando)의 첫 아내, 안나 카스피(Anna Kashfi)
말론 브란도(Marlon Brando)의 첫 아내, 안나 카스피(Anna Kashfi)
안나 카스피는 1956년 제작된 영화 山(The Mountain: 스펜서 트레시, 로버트 와그너), 전송가(戰頌歌, Battle Hymn:1957),
Cowboy (1958), Night of the Quarter Moon (1959) 등에 출연하였으며 또한 말론 브란도의 첫 아내로서 널리 알려졌다.
한국에서 상영된 전송가(戰頌歌, Battle Hymn:1957)에서 안나 카스피(Anna Kashfi)는 한국여성 "양은순" 역으로 출연했다.
그녀는 말론 브란도와의 사이에서 아들 Christian Brando를 두었으나 1959년 이혼하였다.
그녀에 대한 자세한 것은 아래 영문을 참조하기 바란다.
Anna Kashfi (1934–2015)
Date of Birth 30 September 1934, Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India
Date of Death 16 August 2015, Woodland, Washington, USA (natural causes)
Anna Kashfi has appeared in a number of films including The Mountain (1956) (with Spencer Tracy)
and Battle Hymn (1957) (with Rock Hudson) but is best known for being Marlon Brando's first wife.
Kashfi is often thought of as being Indian but several newspapers have said
that she is, in fact, the daughter of a Welsh factory worker, William Callaghan,
and simply reinvented herself to increase her screen appeal.
In her 1979 memoir, Kashfi still held onto the claim that she is Indian
by insisting that she is the product of an "unregistered alliance" between Selma Ghose
and an Indian architect named Devi Kashfi, and that William Callaghan is her stepfather.
She met Brando in 1955 in the Paramount commissary and after an on-off relationship
(mainly due to Brando's relentless womanizing) married him in 1957.
(Brando claimed that he married her only because she had become pregnant.)
She gave birth in May 1958 to their son, Christian, who became notorious in 1990
for shooting dead Dag Drollet, a crime that earned him a ten-year jail sentence.
Kashfi divorced Brando in 1959.
She remarried a Los Angeles businessman named James Hannaford in 1974, but he died in 1987.
She also outlived her first husband Marlon Brando (who died in 2004) and their son Christian (who died in 2008).
She died on August 16, 2015 of natural causes at the age of 80 in Washington State, USA.
