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Marlon Brando as Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier, guitar-playing drifter seeking redemption

Mississippi Delta, January 1959

Film: The Fugitive Kind
Release Date: April 14, 1960
Director: Sidney Lumet
Costume Designer: Frank L. Thompson

WARNING! Spoilers ahead!

Background

For National Snake Day on July 16th, let’s celebrate the famous snakeskin jacket that Marlon Brando wore as Valentine “Val” Xavier in The Fugitive Kind, adapted from Tennessee Williams’ 1957 play Orpheus Descending—itself a modern retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Continue reading →