It's 1966, you're sitting in front of Marlon Brando on a flight from New York City to London, he hands you a letter declaring that there's "something lovely... graceful" about your face. This happened. The woman was a stewardess who, according to Letters of Note, was taking care of another passenger and sitting in front of Brando for most of the flight. Christie's has the letter, which reads something like:
Dear Lady —
There is something not quite definable in your face — something lovely, not pretty in a conventionally thought of way. You have something graceful and tender and feminine (sp). You seem to be a woman who has been loved in her childhood, or else, somehow by the mystery of genetic phenomena you have been visited by the gifts of refinement, dignity and poise. Perhaps you cannot be accredited with all that.
Irrespective of your gothic aspects, you have passed something on in terms of your expression, mien and general comportment that is unusual and rewarding.
It's been a pleasant if brief encounter and I wish you well and I hope we shall have occasion to cross eyes again sometime.
Best wishes
Marlon Brando
Savoy
You can check out the real thing above, along with four images of a young Marlon Brando (because, swoon). [via The Hairpin]
