Marlon Brando considers himself "lucky" with women, including Marilyn Monroe.
"We had an affair and saw each other intermittently for years," Brando said in his new book, "Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me." An excerpt appears in Sunday's Parade magazine.The star of "The Godfather" and "On The Waterfront" recalls that he met Monroe when both were students at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. Brando, 70, said he joined "to meet girls."
In 1962, Monroe "called and invited me to come over for dinner. I already had plans but promised to call the following week. She said fine. Two or three days later, she was dead," Brando said.
On women in general, Brando added, "There have been many in my life, though I hardly ever spent more than a couple of minutes with any of them."
Brando's book is scheduled for release next month.