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Brando, Anna Kashfi

LC control no.n 79019732
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Personal name headingBrando, Anna Kashfi
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Variant(s)Kashfi, Anna
O'Callaghan, Joan, 1934-2015
LocatedCalifornia Washington (State)
Birth date1934-09-30
Death date2015-08-21
Place of birthDarjeeling (India)
Found inHer Brando for ... c1979: t.p. (Anna Kashfi Brando) publ. info. (Anna Kashfi; actress)
Telegraph WWW site, viewed Aug. 24, 2015 (Anna Kashfi; actress; insisted that she was the daughter of Devi Kashfi, an architect, and a woman called Selma Ghose; but the day after she married Marlon Brando in late 1957, one William O'Callaghan his wife Phoebe emerged claiming to be her parents; her real name, they said, was not Anna Kashfi but Joan O'Callaghan; the truth may be that, as the actress explained in her memoirs, she was the result of an “unregistered alliance” and was subsequently adopted by O'Callaghan; Anna Kashfi was born Joan O'Callaghan on September 30 1934 in Darjeeling; latterly she lived in California and then in Washington state; died August 21 2015)