Marlon Brando Snubbed Marilyn Monroe

Movie legend MARLON BRANDO lured his fellow sex symbol MARILYN MONROE back to his hotel, only to snub her as blondes weren't his type.The ON THE WATERFRONT star, who died last year (04), contacted the screen goddess after his pal GEORGE ENGLUND suggested he could persuade any woman to come to him at a moment's notice.But despite Monroe's image as the ultimate male fantasy, Brando's connection with the SOME LIKE IT HOT beauty was purely platonic.Englund, who recently wrote MARLON BRANDO: THE NAKED TRUTH, a biography of his late friend, recalls, "We were in New York. I said to him he could probably call any woman anywhere in the world and if he asked her to come over to the hotel, there was a high probability she would.

"Marilyn was staying at the Plaza Hotel across the street. He had never met her before but he phoned her, gave her a few chat lines, and she said she'd come.

"And they sat and talked about what it was like to be surrounded by people who wanted to say they'd slept with a movie star, not people who wanted to know the human being you were.

"They had a rapport that evening, a shared experience, but she wasn't his type." BRANDO was the first person to make JACKIE KENNEDY ONASSIS laugh after the tragic assassination of her first husband - former US President JOHN F KENNEDY - in 1963.

The late ON THE WATERFRONT star, who died last year (04), whisked grieving Kennedy to an expensive restaurant to lift her spirits. Even though they had to escape photographers before their meal, she told GEORGE ENGLUND, Brando's pal and writer of a new biography MARLON BRANDO: THE NAKED TRUTH, how thrilled she was to finally have fun again.

She told him, "You forget how good it is just to laugh... I don't think I've imagined myself laughing since Jack died."

Englund adds, "That tells you something of his power, his charisma, with people. To make that woman laugh at that time, forget her troubled just for an evening.

"In a matter of seconds he could make someone he'd never met feel like the most interesting, the most sensual person in the world."