Anna Kashfi Dies At 80

Anna Kashfi Anna Kashfi, real name Joan O'Callaghan was an >> Read More... , the first wife of award-winning actor Marlon Brando Born on April 3, 1924, in Nebraska, U. S, Marlon B >> Read More... , dies on August 16 at the age of 80 in Woodland, Washington.

Anna and Marlon met in Paramount Studios in Hollywood while Anna is doing her debut film The Mountain in year 1956. She was starred in the film as a Hindu woman who had an airplane crash and survived.

Anna wrote in her memoir, Brando for Breakfast, that she was born to her Indian parents in Darjeeling. Right after her marriage to the actor, two white people claims that they were her parents and her real name was Joan O’Callaghan. Anna and Marlon got married in year 1957 but after their son was born, they got separated and had a divorce in year 1960. Their battle about the custody of their son was never resolved until the boy reaches 13.

Anna has done few films including The Mountain in 1956, Battle Hymn in 1957, Cowboy in 1958 along with Glenn Ford and Night of the Quarter Moon with Nat King Cole in 1959.