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TIL Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra couldn’t stand each other. On the set of Guys and Dolls, Sinatra referred to Brando as “Mumbles,” so in a scene where Sinatra had to eat cheesecake Brando kept deliberately screwing up his lines so Sinatra had to keep eating more and more cheesecake in retakes.

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