Barbra Streisand recalls having to help Marlon Brando get unstuck from behind his steering wheel

In her new memoir, "My Name Is Barbra," the living legend recounts falling in love with Brando on screen and then meeting him in real life.

Marlon Brando made Barbra Streisand an offer she couldn't refuse. Namely, to help him out of a pretty sticky situation.

In yet another tantalizing tidbit from her epic, nearly 1,000-page memoir, My Name Is Barbra, Streisand recounts her flirty friendship with one of the greatest actors of all time and their very human interactions over their decades-long friendship.

Streisand loved Brando from an early age. A friend had shown the young Streisand a photo of the acting heartthrob, and Babs thought, "Eh, he's okay." But then she saw him in 1955's Guys and Dolls and she got what all the fuss was about.

"I watched him on-screen and fell in love," she writes. "I thought, Oh my God, who is this creature? What a face! Those eyes… those lips… those teeth! I wanted to be in the movies just to kiss Marlon Brando!"

Now, for context, young Marlon Brando was the sexiest thing that ever existed.

There was film before Brando and film after Brando, and so, justifiably, he became the actor Streisand admired most — as well someone she regarded "as the most gorgeous, the most brilliant, the most talented human being on earth!"

As her star began to rise, their paths began to cross. He sent her a message, delivered by someone at a party when she was just 19 or 20: "Marlon Brando told me, 'If you ever see Barbra Streisand, tell that bitch she's great.'"

And then a few years later, at a star-studded civil rights benefit, she and Brando had an all too brief encounter. She was getting ready to perform and, knowing Brando would be in attendance, was looking around eagerly for him. When…

Barbra Streisand in 'My Name Is Barbra'

Suddenly I felt someone kissing my back. Who would dare do that? I turned around and it was him. My idol. I blurted out exactly what I was thinking. "You're destroying my fantasy." He said softly, "You can't have a back like that and not have it kissed." I think my heart stopped for a moment. What a line! It was like something out of a movie.

About a year later, at a party thrown by possible hookup Warren Beatty and his then-girlfriend, Leslie Caron, Streisand and Brando discovered a quick but deep connection during a four-hour conversation that was the start of their friendship. Even if Brando might have wanted more.

Barbra Streisand in 'My Name Is Barbra'

About three hours into the conversation, he looked into my eyes and said, "I'd like to f--- you." I was taken aback. "That sounds awful," I said. After a moment of thought, he said, "Okay. Then I'd like to go to a museum with you." "Now that's very romantic. I'd like that."

Streisand and Brando remained friends until his death in 2004, often having long, drawn-out conversations on the phone. In the '90s, Streisand invited Brando over to her house for dinner and he had been stopped by the police for speeding. When he got to her house, he had gained so much weight that he couldn't get out from behind the wheel of his car. Streisand had to "grab hold of his arms and pull him out."

After she got him in her house, Brando rubbed her feet and told her about making On the Waterfront, her favorite film of his. Over the years, they discussed their lives, acting, politics, their discomfort with fame, but Brando, being Brando, always had an itch for Babs.

He called her up once after watching The Way We Were for a second time and said, "We should have done more when we were younger, f---ed a lot, had children. Go kiss yourself in the mirror for me."

My Name Is Barbra is on shelves now.

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