Hollywood loves few things more than retailing myths and legends about itself. Few of these yarns have had a longer life than what happened at the 1973 Academy Awards involving Marlon Brando, John Wayne and a Native American activist named Sacheen Littlefeather.
Movie aficionados generally remember that Brando sent Littlefeather up to the stage to decline his Oscar as best actor for "The Godfather."
Littlefeather, wearing buckskin and moccasins, read a brief statement of less than a minute, politely stating on Brando's behalf that he "very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award," to protest "the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry and on television in movie reruns."
