Montgomery Clift
Edward Montgomery “Monty” Clift (October 17, 1920 - July 23, 1966) was an American actor of the Golden Age, known for often playing sensitive or conflicted outcast characters with realistic emotional depth and anxieties.
Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean are the trio typically associated with the new wave of film acting, with Clift being the oldest and first to make his stage and screen debuts. Starting at age 14, he was a breakout talent on Broadway throughout 1935-1945. He finally accepted one of many Hollywood offers: starring in the Western “Red River” which was filmed in 1946 but delayed release for 2 years. Fred Zinnemann’s “The Search” preceded “Red River” as his first film in 1948 and first Academy Award nomination. Clift’s next major films were “The Heiress” (1949) and “A Place in the Sun” (1951), cementing his romantic lead status. At the time, audiences had rarely seen a type of masculinity softened with Clift’s vulnerability. Hollywood had also never seen a young actor control his career and instant stardom the way Clift did in the late 1940’s: notoriously selective, refusing the standard seven-year studio contracts and rewriting scripts to preserve his artistic freedom. In 1953, Zinnemann again directed Clift to an Academy Award nomination in war drama “From Here to Eternity.”
After suffering a near-fatal car accident during “Raintree County” (1957) he starred in acclaimed 1960’s films "Wild River,” "The Misfits” and “Judgment at Nuremberg” for which he earned a fourth and final Academy Award nomination for his 12-minute scene. Despite a 4-year hiatus and mounting health problems, Clift was eager to make a comeback in "Reflections in a Golden Eye,” secured by the insurance and insistence of co-star Elizabeth Taylor, but he tragically died of a heart attack at the age of 45 just weeks before shooting began.
Fotos
Películas (42)
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Making Montgomery Clift
2018 · Self (archive footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Listen to Me Marlon
2015 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
Starring Sigmund Freud
2012 · (archive footage)
Marilyn at the Movies
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002 · (archive footage)
Making 'The Misfits'
2002 · Self (archive footage)
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
2001 · Self (archive footage)
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000 · Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage)
Gay! Gay! Hollywood
1994
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
1987 · Self (archive footage)
Eve and Marilyn
1987 · Self (archive photo)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985 · (archive footage)
Montgomery Clift
1983 · Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973 · Self (archive footage)
The Defector
1966 · Professor James Bower
William Faulkner's Mississippi
1965 · Self - Narrator
Freud: The Secret Passion
1962 · Sigmund Freud
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Rudolph Petersen
The Misfits
1961 · Perce Howland
Wild River
1960 · Chuck Glover
Suddenly, Last Summer
1959 · Dr. Cukrowicz
Lonelyhearts
1959 · Adam White
The Young Lions
1958 · Noah Ackerman
Raintree County
1957 · John Wickliff Shawnessy
Operation Raintree
1957 · Self
From Here to Eternity
1953 · Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt
Indiscretion of an American Wife
1953 · Giovanni Doria
I Confess
1953 · Fr. Michael William Logan
A Place in the Sun
1951 · George Eastman
The Big Lift
1950 · Sgt. 1st Class Danny MacCullough
The Heiress
1949 · Morris Townsend
Red River
1948 · Matthew Garth
The Search
1948 · Ralph Stevenson
