"No, Dean was never a friend of mine … I hardly knew him. But he had anabout me," Brando said."Whatever I did he did. He was always trying to get close to me. He used to call up. I'd listen to him talking to the answering service, asking for me, leaving messages. But I never spoke up. I never called him back."
Brando also said that he suggested Dean see an"analyst." He explained,"[W]hen I finally met Dean, it was at a party. Where he was throwing himself around, acting the madman. So I spoke to him. I took him aside and asked him didn't he know he was sick? That he needed help? He listened to me. He knew he was sick. I gave him the name of an analyst, and he went. And at least hisDean defended himself., Dean defended himself against claims he was copying Brando.
—were released after his 1955 death in a car crash. The actor was nominated for two posthumous Academy Awards: Best Actor in 1956 for