1. - Anna Maria Alberghetti, 10,000 Bedrooms, 1957. Anna was Marlon Brando's mysterious second wife - Indian or Welsh,? She insisted she was born to architect Devi Kashfi and Selma Ghose in Calcutta, 1934. Marlon loved such exotica. He was livid when it was proved she was Joanna Mary O'Callaghan, born to factory worker William Patrick Callaghan and Melinda, also in Calcutta, but then resident in Cardiff, Wales. Anna was ill during wardrobe tests for Dean Martin's first solo film - and diagnosed with TB and admitted to City of Hope Hospital for the rest of 1956. Brando visited her in his Oriental make-up from Teahouse of the August Moon. "He was very attentive," Anna reported, "as long as I was in the hospital, as long as I needed him." Brando later said she was "as negative as a person as I have met."
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