{"id":456568,"date":"2021-04-26T16:06:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=456568"},"modified":"2021-04-26T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:06:51","slug":"sacheen-littlefeather-who-rejected-marlon-brandos-oscar-says-hollywood-blacklisted-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sacheen-littlefeather-who-rejected-marlon-brandos-oscar-says-hollywood-blacklisted-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacheen Littlefeather, Who Rejected Marlon Brando\u2019s Oscar, Says Hollywood Blacklisted Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsacheen-littlefeather-who-rejected-marlon-brandos-oscar-says-hollywood-blacklisted-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=456568&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3837.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1wr5klf\" readability=\"31.87479038569\">\n<p>Back in 1973, legendary actor Marlon Brando famously rejected his Oscar win for Best Actor in \u201cThe Godfather\u201d by having Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather speak in his stead to denounce the industry\u2019s treatment of Native Americans on film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cMy name is Sacheen Littlefeather. I\u2019m Apache and I am president of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee. I\u2019m representing Marlon Brando this evening and he has asked me to tell you in a very long speech, which I cannot share with you presently because of time but I will be glad to share with the press afterwards, that he very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award,\u201d said Sacheen in her speech. \u201cAnd the reasons for this being are the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry \u2013 excuse me \u2013 and on television in movie reruns, and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee. I beg at this time that I have not intruded upon this evening and that we will in the future, our hearts and our understandings will meet with love and generosity. Thank you on behalf of Marlon Brando.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marlon Brando&#039;s Best Actor Oscar win for &quot;The Godfather&quot; | Sacheen Littlefeather\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2QUacU0I4yU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>A new documentary, \u201cSacheen: Breaking The Silence,\u201d explores the aftermath of that moment and how Sacheen Littlefeather suffered in her career as a result. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/04\/sacheen-littlefeather-claims-she-was-blacklisted-by-hollywood-after-brando-oscars-snub-1234743075\/\">Deadline<\/a>, Littlefeather felt \u201cabandoned\u201d by Brando amid the backlash.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop \" readability=\"15\">\n<div id=\"desktop_desk-art-ent-lb2\" class=\"ad gam\" data-iu=\"lb2\" data-ad-size=\"728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-hot-unit data-ad-init=\"1\" data-ad-slot-rendered=\"1\" data-rendered-size=\"1x1\" data-google-query-id=\"CMGHvtDRnPACFZIXrQYdB_gLsw\" readability=\"25\">\n<p>\u201cLittlefeather says Brando was delighted by her performance, but then felt abandoned by the actor when the ensuing firestorm erupted,\u201d reported the outlet. \u201cAs a result, Littlefeather claims she was \u2018blacklisted\u2019 by Hollywood from her minor career in small films and television, and never worked again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the first time anyone had made a political statement at the Oscars,\u201d Littlefeather says in the documentary. \u201cIt was the first Oscars ceremony to be broadcast by satellite all over the world, which is why Marlon chose it. I didn\u2019t have an evening dress so Marlon told me to wear my buckskin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the moment, Sacheen recalls hearing \u201cboos and jeers\u201d and later learned that six security guards had to detain John Wayne as he tried to storm the stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cI later learned six security guards had to hold back John Wayne, who was in the wings and wanted to storm on to the stage and drag me off,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1973, legendary actor Marlon Brando famously rejected his Oscar win for Best Actor in \u201cThe Godfather\u201d by having Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather speak in his stead to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276759,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3837.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Sacheen Littlefeather, Who Rejected Marlon Brando\u2019s Oscar, Says Hollywood Blacklisted Her","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3837.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Sacheen Littlefeather, Who Rejected Marlon Brando\u2019s Oscar, Says Hollywood Blacklisted Her","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}