Brando, McQueen, Mitchum, Burton: Hollywood Bad Boys Of The '60s

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Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

We've always been interested in celebrity antics and manly recklessness, but in the 1960s it seemed that bad behavior rose to an art form. The exploits of Hollywood's bad boys -- Brando, Burton, Mitchum, McQueen, Beatty and others -- inspired awe and envy. They were just actors, after all, but their on-screen personae tended to be inspiringly masculine, and we were eager to believe that the flesh-and-blood men were too. Steve McQueen's obsession with speed, Marlon Brando's brawling, Warren Beatty's womanizing -- these larger-than-life exploits were what we wanted in our idols. Hollywood bad boys of the '60s made entertaining movies and led even more entertaining private lives.