Brando's Bride

In October 1957 Marlon Brando married an Indian actress called Anna Kashfi. He was thirty-three and at the pinnacle of his fame, having recently won an Oscar for On the Waterfront. He could, and did, have any woman he wanted. 

Anna Kashfi was twenty-three and pregnant. The day after the wedding, a factory worker living in Wales, William O’Callaghan, claimed that the woman who called herself Anna Kashfi was in fact his daughter, Joan O’Callaghan. He said she was a butcher’s assistant from Cardiff. This book sets out to discover who was telling the truth and who was lying—and, perhaps more importantly, why?

Sarah Broughton has worked in the television industry for the last two decades. Her company, Martha Stone Productions, made the recent BBC 4 documentary Andrew Davies: Rewriting the Classics, and has various other film and television projects in development. Parthian Books published Sarah’s first novel, Other Useful Numbers. She is currently completing a part-time PhD in Creative Writing at the University of South Wales