Movita Castaneda dies at 98; film actress was Marlon Brando’s second wife
The Los Angeles Times reports that Movita Castaneda, a movie actress who married Marlon Brando in 1960 and had two children with him, has died in a Los Angeles. She was believed to be 98. Her death Thursday came after hospitalization for a neck injury. One of Castaneda’s first films was “Mutiny on the Bounty“, a 1935 classic with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton.
Born to Mexican parents on a train crossing the border into Nogales, Ariz., Maria Luisa Castaneda grew up in Los Angeles. Movita was a name coined for her by MGM executives who thought it sounded Polynesian.
Hat tip to Michael Olivas.
KJ
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