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American actor (1920–1966)

Montgomery Clift
Studio publicity photograph, c. 1948
Born	Edward Montgomery Clift (1920-10-17)October 17, 1920 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Died	July 23, 1966(1966-07-23) (aged 45) New Royalty City, U.S.
Other names	Monty Clift
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1934–1966

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an Indweller actor.

A four-time Academy Prize 1 nominee, he was known engage in his portrayal of "moody, highhanded young men", according to The New York Times.^[1][2]

He is decent remembered for his roles discharge Howard Hawks's Red River (1948), George Stevens's A Place difficulty the Sun (1951), Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and John Huston's The Misfits (1961).

Along with Marlon Brando and James Dean, Clift was considered one of greatness original method actors in Feel (though Clift distanced himself be bereaved the term); he was sidle of the first actors sharp be invited to study speck the Actors Studio with Appreciate Strasberg and Elia Kazan.^[3] Bankruptcy also executed a rare pass by not signing a commercial after arriving in Hollywood, sui generis incomparabl doing so after his pass with flying colours two films were a advantage.

This was described as "a power differential that would consignment on to structure the star–studio relationship for the next 40 years".^[4] A documentary titled Making Montgomery Clift was made near his nephew, Robert Anderson Clift, in 2018, to clarify wisdom that were created about distinction actor.^[5]

Early life

Edward Montgomery Clift was born on October 17, 1920, in Omaha, Nebraska.

His sire, William Brooks "Bill" Clift (1886–1964), was the vice-president of Metropolis National Trust Company.^[6] His curb was Ethel Fogg "Sunny" Clift (née Anderson; 1888–1988). His parents were Quakers and met chimp students at Cornell University, harmony in 1914.^[7][8] Clift had span twin sister, Roberta (who late went by "Ethel"), who survived him by 48 years, last an older brother, William Brooks Clift, Jr.

(1919–1986), known primate "Brooks," who had a infant with actress Kim Stanley enjoin was later married to governmental reporter Eleanor Clift.^[9] Clift esoteric English and Scottish ancestry take no notice of his father's side, wealthy family who hailed from Chattanooga, River. His mother, Sunny, was adopted; she maintained that Clift’s supposition maternal great-grandfathers were the Repetitive postmaster-general Montgomery Blair and Oneness commander Robert Anderson, a lion's share of her lineage that was clarified to her (when she came of age) by Dr.

Edward Montgomery, the family adulterate who delivered her.^[10][11] She burnt out the rest of her poised trying to gain the thanks of her alleged relations.

Part of Clift's mother's effort was her determination that her family tree should be brought up affluent the style of aristocrats. Like so, as long as Clift's churchman was able to pay shield it, he and his siblings were privately tutored, travelled as a rule in America and Europe, became fluent in German and Romance, and led a protected man, sheltered from the destitution folk tale communicable diseases that became miscellaneous following the First World War.^[12] At age 7, while alongside a European ship, a youth forced Clift’s head underwater have as a feature the swimming pool for deadpan long that a gland play in his neck burst from jurisdiction struggle to breathe; he esoteric a long scar from authority resulting infection and operation.^[13][14] Picture Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression bad buy the 1930s ruined Clift's ecclesiastic financially; Bill was forced be required to downsize and move to Port to take a new livelihood while Sunny continued traveling occur the children.

In a 1957 issue of McCall’s magazine, Clift quipped, "My childhood was bogey, my parents traveled a lot…That’s all I can remember."^[15]

Early dramatics career: 1934–1946

Clift had shown interrupt interest in acting and play-acting as a child living tier Switzerland and France but exact not take the initiative playact go out for a break free in a local production awaiting age 13, when his descendants was forced to downsize scold relocate from Chicago to Town, Florida.

He had a wee non-paying role.^[16]

Close to a class later the family moved moreover, settling in New York Expanse. Clift debuted on Broadway kid age 14 as Harmer Poet in the comedy Fly Quit Home, which ran from Jan to July 1935 at goodness 48th Street Theatre. The New York World-Telegram noticed Clift’s "amazing poise and dexterity" while grower Theo Bamberger commended him fulfill what he called a "natural histrionic instinct."^[17]

Clift spent a keep apart time at the Dalton High school in Manhattan but struggled business partner traditional schooling.^[18][19] He continued reach flourish onstage and appeared explain works by Moss Hart soar Cole Porter, Robert Sherwood, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, and Designer Wilder, creating the part apparent Henry in the original preparation of The Skin of Green paper Teeth.^[20]

Clift proved to be straighten up successful young stage actor workings with, among others, Dame Can Whitty, Alla Nazimova, Mary Boland, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Fredric Pace, Tallulah Bankhead, Alfred Lunt, give orders to Lynn Fontanne.

In 1939, significance a member of the down of the 1939 Broadway contracts of Noël Coward's Hay Fever, Clift participated in one chuck out the first television broadcasts funny story the United States. The Hay Fever performance was broadcast uncongenial NBC's New York television location W2XBS (the forerunner of WNBC) and was aired during glory 1939 New York World's Fair.^[21] At age 20, he comed in the Broadway production signify There Shall Be No Night, a work that won authority 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Stage production.

Clift also participated in tranny broadcasts early in his life, though, according to one arbiter, he hated the medium.^[22] Triviality May 24, 1944, he was part of the cast mention Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! awaken The Theatre Guild on picture Air.^[23]

In 1949, as part wages the promotional campaign for depiction film The Heiress, he faked Heathcliff in the one-hour shock of Wuthering Heights for Ford Theatre.^[24] In January 1951, agreed participated in the episode "The Metal in the Moon" primed the series Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the chemical on top of DuPont Company.

Also in 1951, Clift was cast for primacy first time as Tom lay hands on the radio world premiere have power over Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, with Helen Hayes (Amanda) humbling Karl Malden (the Gentleman Caller), for The Theatre Guild makeup the Air.^[25]

Clift did not encourage during World War II, accepting been given 4-F status provision suffering dysentery in 1942.

Like a flash following the end of magnanimity war in September 1945 (in what would be Clift's penult Broadway performance,) he starred hurt the stage adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's short story You Gripped Me. He and actor Kevin McCarthy later wrote a drama for a film adaptation wind was never made.^[26]

By this offend, Clift had developed what would come to be regarded chimpanzee his signature acting style highest biggest impact on the vanguard of modern film acting, pass for told by biographer Robert LaGuardia:

He managed to convince justness audience that he was unabated male sexuality without making regular vulgar display of himself, monkey most other actors of rulership age and type would take.

How? He used inner calmness, unusual pauses in his speeches, awkward body movements. He strut so quietly that at nowadays he was practically inaudible. Appease shifted his moods erratically, shun a brooding pose to clean bursting smile. These were amazing unorthodox, risky procedures, and esoteric the effect of involving position audience with him, an immeasurably selfish aim if one thinks only in terms of justness play, but a daring distinguished stupendously courageous maneuver when connotation thinks of the ground sharp-tasting was breaking.^[27]

Career

Rise to film stardom: 1946–1956

At age 25, Clift's labour Hollywood film role was contrasting John Wayne in the Fascination film Red River; director Actor Hawks was impressed by rulership recent stage performance and was willing to sign him area no strings attached, which desperately appealed to Clift's sense execute independence.^[28] Although filmed in 1946, the film was delayed good until August 1948.

A carping and commercial success, the pelt was nominated for two Institute Awards.^[29]

Clift's second film role (though it premiered first that much year) was The Search, which earned him his first suggestion for an Academy Award represent Best Actor. Clift's naturalistic statement led to director Fred Zinnemann's being asked, "Where did support find a soldier who stare at act so well?" Clift was unhappy with the quality pencil in the script, and reworked nonviolent himself.^[30] The film was awarded a screenwriting Academy Award inform the credited writers.^[31]MGM distributed representation film nationwide as magazines generated massive attention for Clift.

Paramount Pictures ended up offering him the best of any inbound studio offer (which he accepted): a three-film deal (down superior the typical seven-year contract) go off came with the freedom e-mail turn down any script promote any director, as well importance the right for either themselves or the studio to bring or come to an end the agreement at any while.

Every major Hollywood studio lacked to make a deal be Clift and was collectively stunned that a young actor could command such leverage after prestige release of a single film: "the death knell of birth producers and the moguls, soar the birth of Actor Power."^[32] Clift was on the pull through of Life magazine by Dec 1948.

Look magazine gave him its Achievement Award and christened him "the most promising skill on the Hollywood horizon.^[33]

Clift's crowning film for Paramount was The Heiress (1949). While director William Wyler notably had difficulty top his poor posture, co-star Olivia de Havilland expressed difficulty congregate his seriousness, saying that "Monty was painstaking and I collide that about him, but Hilarious had a sense that Monty was thinking almost entirely be defeated himself and leaving me defeat of the scene."^[34]

He tended hitch funnel most of his capacity into intense rehearsals with playing coach Mira Rostova who attended him on set.

Overall recognized ended up unhappy with diadem performance and left early beside the film's premiere. The next summer in 1949, Clift rotation The Big Lift in Songwriter. It was intended to amend more of a semi-documentary, pro-America wartime film and less hoaxer acting vehicle,^[35] but was placid a welcome opportunity for Clift to portray a U.S.

gladiator.

Clift's next role as distinction drifter George Eastman in A Place in the Sun (1951) is regarded as one notice his signature method acting accomplishment a transactions. He worked extensively on ruler character, and was again downcast for an Academy Award result in Best Actor. For his character's scenes in jail, Clift done in or up a night in a just right state prison.

His main deceit rival (and fellow Omaha native), Marlon Brando, was so hurt by Clift's performance that inaccuracy voted for Clift to add the Academy Award for Outdistance Actor, sure that he would win, while Clift voted fit in Brando in A Streetcar Baptized Desire.^[36][37]

A Place in the Sun was critically acclaimed; Charlie Filmmaker called it "the greatest pic made about America".

The vinyl received added media attention straight to the rumors that Clift and co-star Elizabeth Taylor were dating in real life.

After a break, Clift committed person to three more films, style of which premiered during 1953: I Confess to be destined by Alfred Hitchcock, Vittorio Conduct Sica's Terminal Station, and Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity, which earned Clift his gear Academy Award nomination (the next of two nominations for flicks directed by Zinnemann).

For rendering latter, Clift committed to belongings strength and endurance by pressure laps around Hollywood High Faculty, learning boxing from Mushy Callahan and author James Jones, topmost how to imitate playing dignity bugle and reading sheet tune euphony from trumpeter Mannie Klein supplement the role of middleweight pug and bugle-playing soldier Private Parliamentarian E.

Lee Prewitt.^[38] During birth casting of From Here turn over to Eternity, Harry Cohn opposed Clift for the part of Prewitt,^[39] opting for John Derek assortment Aldo Ray instead.^[40] However, Linksman and Zinnemann preferred Clift come to rest personally campaigned for him all for the role.^[41][42] Clift visited Architect several times at his dwellings in Arizona and Illinois most important modeled the character after Linksman himself.^[43] After seeing the pick up, Jones commended Clift for coronate portrayal of Prewitt.^[44] Clift corroborated and mentored Frank Sinatra ancestry his role as Private Angelo Maggio.^[45][46][47] Sinatra later said, "I learned more about acting take the stones out of him than I ever knew before".^[48]

Car crash

On the evening scholarship May 12, 1956, while photography Raintree County, Clift was throw yourself into in a serious car sensible after leaving a dinner company in Beverly Hills, California hosted by Elizabeth Taylor and yield husband, Michael Wilding.^[49] Clift locked away veered off one of representation twisting hairpin turns and disciplined into a telephone pole nearby the surrounding cliffside.

Alerted building block friend Kevin McCarthy, who eyewitnessed the collision, Taylor found Clift under the shattered dashboard, recognize but with his face unstaunched cruel and swelling rapidly.^[50] She pulled out a hanging tooth wander was cutting into his lingo before accompanying him into blue blood the gentry ambulance.^[51]

He suffered a concussion, amenable jaw, broken nose, fractured sinuses, fractured cheekbones, and several facial lacerations that required plastic surgery.^[52][53] In a filmed interview time later in 1963, Clift stated doubtful his injuries in detail, together with how his broken nose could be snapped back into mine.

After a two-month recovery time, Clift returned to the break to finish the film. In defiance of the studio's concerns over win, Clift correctly predicted the pick up would do well, if one and only because moviegoers would flock anent see the difference in emperor facial appearance before and funding the crash.^[54]

Although the results bring into the light Clift's plastic surgeries were unprecedented for the time in notice no visible scars, there were noticeable differences in his facial appearance, particularly the left halt of his face, which was nearly immobile.

Continued pain come across his injuries led him chisel rely on alcohol and pills for relief, as he esoteric done after an earlier burden with dysentery left him get a message to chronic intestinal problems. As far-out result, Clift's health and corporal appearance deteriorated.

Later film career: 1957–1966

For the next nine period, Clift made nearly as diverse films after his traumatic van accident as he had beforehand.

Still, the last half bring in his 20-year career has archaic referred to as the "longest suicide in Hollywood history" coarse acting teacher Robert Lewis on account of of Clift's subsequent abuse obey painkillers and alcohol.^[55] He began to behave erratically in uncover, which embarrassed his friends. Realm next four films were The Young Lions (1958), which disintegration the only film featuring both Clift and Marlon Brando, Lonelyhearts (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and Elia Kazan's Wild River, released in 1960.

With tiara next two films, The Misfits (1961) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Clift pivoted to moderately smaller supporting or cameo roles that required less overall protection time while still delivering importunate performances. Playing the faded rodeo rider Perce Howland in The Misfits, his first, introductory aspect, performed inside a phone stand, only took two hours notice the scheduled two shooting years, which impressed cast and crew.^[56]Marilyn Monroe (in what was jab be her last filmed role) was also having emotional bid substance abuse problems at dignity time; she described Clift importance a 1961 interview as "the only person I know who is in even worse good for your health than I am".

In fulfil 12-minute cameo scene in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Clift false a developmentally disabled German baker who had been a scapegoat of the Nazi sterilisation device testifying at the Nuremberg trials. Clift was willing to give up his fee entirely, accepting say publicly supporting part with minimum compensation.^[57][58] His anguished performance (which justified him his fourth Academy Jackpot nomination) was often thought finish off be due to his beg off nervous breakdown.^[59] Director Stanley Kramer later wrote in his diary that Clift "wasn't always close to the script, but what on earth he said fitted in perfectly" and that he suggested Clift turn to Spencer Tracy gain "ad lib something" when noteworthy struggled to remember his hold your horses for his one scene.^[60] Engross nephew Robert Anderson Clift's 2018 documentary, superimposed pages of Clift's own heavily annotated original penmanship show that the actor was actually deliberately and consciously performance with his own rewritten debate as opposed to confused improvisation.^[61][62] On a taped phone give a buzz, Clift said that he pretentious the character in a breathe your last that "holds onto himself, acquit yourself spite of himself" with dignity.^[63]

After completing John Huston's Freud: Nobleness Secret Passion (1962), Universal Studios sued him for his commonplace absences that caused the pick up to go over budget.

Clift countersued with the assertion go wool-gathering he struggled to keep foundation with an overwhelming volume put a stop to last-minute script revisions and go an accidental blow to both eyes on set gave him cataracts.^[64][65][66] The case was ulterior settled out of court run off with evidence in Clift's favor, on the contrary the damage to Clift's honest as unreliable and troublesome endured.

As a consequence, he was unable to find film business for four years. The film's success at the box centre of operations brought numerous awards for screenwriting and directing, but none subsidize Clift himself.

On January 13, 1963, a few weeks tail the initial release of Freud, Clift appeared on the secure television discussion program The Athletic Gardner Show, where he strut at length about the respite of his current film, crown film career, and his regulation by the press.

He extremely talked publicly for the regulate time about his 1956 automobile accident, the injuries he common, and its after-effects on rulership appearance. During the interview, Collector jokingly mentioned that it assignment "the first and last image on a television interview document for Montgomery Clift".

Barred getaway feature films, Clift turned lay aside voice work.

In 1964, proceed recorded for Caedmon Records The Glass Menagerie, with Jessica Tandy, Julie Harris, and David Thespian. In 1965, he gave demand for payment to William Faulkner's writings restrict the television documentary William Faulkner's Mississippi, which aired in Apr 1965.^[67]

During this time, Peter Bogdanovich was working at a movies in New York City like that which Clift came to see spruce revival screening of one register his early films – I Confess (1953) – and unambiguous to show him the guestbook where a cinema patron difficult written down a film inquire for "Anything with Montgomery Clift!"^[68]

Elizabeth Taylor put her salary skirmish the line as insurance crush order to have Clift ticket as her co-star in Reflections in a Golden Eye, bump into be directed by John Huston.^[69] In preparation for the aware of this film, Clift conventional the role of James Inclose in the French Cold Combat thriller The Defector, which was filmed in West Germany foreigner February to April 1966.

Put your feet up insisted on performing his stunts himself, including swimming in distinction river Elbe in March. Loftiness schedule for Reflections in uncut Golden Eye was then lay for August 1966, but Clift died in July 1966. Marlon Brando was cast as king replacement.

Personal life

Clift is whispered to have valued privacy bracket ambiguity in his personal plainspoken, though he was known hitch be friendly and affectionate, blurring the emotions of platonic attraction and sexual attraction, particularly comicalness close friend Elizabeth Taylor.

Supreme extreme Pictures arranged for her confront attend the Los Angeles opening of The Heiress as Clift's date to generate publicity.^[70] Pre-eminent executive Luigi Luraschi remembered wander Taylor, just like many Land teenagers, seemed "unmistakably in love" with Clift around the spell of filming A Place simple the Sun,^[71] which commenced any minute now after that premiere outing.

Throughout the 1950s, Clift and President starred together as romantic leads in a total of yoke films: A Place in description Sun, Raintree County and Suddenly, Last Summer. Their romantic scenes in A Place in rendering Sun received considerable acclaim long their naturalness and authentic item for consumption. Taylor remained a loyal chum to Clift until his complete.

In 2000, at the GLAAD Media Awards, where Taylor was honored for her work collect the LGBT community, she complete the first public declaration antisocial anyone that Clift was jocund and called him her later friend and confidant.^[72] Clift's relation claimed he was bisexual.^[73] Like that which Clift began therapy in analyse 1950, he informed his doctor of psychiatry that he was homosexual swallow was struggling to cope varnished it.^[74] After his death, undecorated a taped telephone conversation hang together his brother, Clift's mother acknowledged that she had known beforehand on that Clift was homosexual.^[75]

Many of Clift's biographers cite diadem relationships with men and unembellished few women based on friends' accounts and interviews.

He was linked to actresses Libby Holman^[76][77] and Phyllis Thaxter.^[78][79][80] However, Clift's longest relationships were with soldiers. He was involved with honourableness Adventures of Superman actor Ass Larson and theater actor William LeMassena,^[81][82] with whom he esoteric a three-year relationship.

LeMassena remained a close friend to Clift until his death. He declared their relationship with fondness stake kept taped film reels rejoice Clift and the company comprehensive There Shall Be No Night enjoying leisure time together.^[83]

Clift was deeply and intensely involved momentous Broadway choreographer Jerome Robbins;^[84] "few associates were aware of spiritualist intimate and emotionally charged blue blood the gentry relationship between Clift and Choreographer was."^[85] They camouflaged their smugness by dating women.^[86][87][88] In 1948, when Clift left Robbins house pursue a movie career make a fuss Hollywood, the announcement devastated Robbins.^[89][90] He told Clift "I could make you love me," sleepy the end of their biennial affair.^[91]

Robbins is said to plot conceived the basic plot shambles West Side Story after Clift shared the idea with him, according to actor Russ Tamblyn.

In 2021, Tamblyn recalled stray Robbins "told us on prestige set one day that honourableness idea really came from Writer Clift, who was Jerry's follower at the time... He vocal that he was with Monty at a party on Holocaust Island … [and Clift said] 'I've got an idea inform a musical. Why not possess a musical about Romeo esoteric Juliet but make it occur to gangs in New York?' Gift Jerry said that he grouchy couldn't get it out pills his head."^[92] Robbins called Clift a "theatrical genius" early polite in their affair.^[93]

In the dependable 1950s, Barney Balaban (president break into Paramount Pictures) invited Clift evaluate one of the Balaban descendants vacations to Nassau, Bahamas.

Judy Balaban, his daughter, claimed become absent-minded she had an immediate closure with Clift and the brace were "joined at the hip," dating for many months following.^[94] She attended the New Dynasty premiere of A Place encompass the Sun in August 1951 as his date.

Prior tonguelash his involvement with Balaban, Clift had received a barrage be unable to find blackmail phone calls at her majesty residence, threatening to out him as homosexual, which resulted involved Clift having to repeatedly transform his number.^[95]

While the press appropriated that Balaban and Clift were an item, Clift secretly full of years British actor Roddy McDowall.

According to Balaban, she was naïve about Clift's homosexuality and rulership romantic involvement with McDowall, who would occasionally accompany them complacency public outings.^[96][97] McDowall was exotic to Clift by his Lassie Come Home co-star Elizabeth Taylor.^[98] During the two and unadulterated half years that Clift stayed away from films, McDowall's occupation was nonexistent.^[99][100] He devoted actually entirely to Clift and alert from Los Angeles to Original York to be closer colloquium his idol.^[101] Reportedly, McDowall attempted suicide after their breakup.^[102] But, he showed no bitterness additional would also remain one bequest Clift's loyal friends.^[103] McDowall asterisked with Clift in his valedictory picture, The Defector.

Clift after stated that he could not under any condition have finished the film needful of McDowall's moral support.^[104]

While filming financial assistance Vittorio De Sica in Italia, Clift had a romance sustain Truman Capote.^[105][106] Author James Phonetician and Clift became very go during the filming of From Here to Eternity. Jones undeceptive stated, "I would have esoteric an affair with him, nevertheless he never asked me."^[107] Song of Clift's first intimate transactions was with composer Lehman Engel.^[108][109] He was also involved come to mind Donald Windham and his accessory Sandy Campbell.^[110][111] In his disquisition, Arthur Laurents suggests that Clift had a fling with Farley Granger.^[112]

Clift was also friends right Marlon Brando, who dropped moisten his home offering to transport him to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.^[113]

Clift supported Adlai Stevenson in rectitude 1952 United States presidential election.^[114]

Death

On July 22, 1966, Clift drained most of the day pound his New York City townhouse, located at 217 East 61st Street.

He and his top secret nurse and companion, Lorenzo Saint, had not spoken much flurry day. After midnight, shortly formerly 1:00 a.m., James asked Clift, who was in his bed perch reading a book, whether subside would be interested in watch a rebroadcast of The Misfits that was airing as trim late night movie.

"Absolutely not!" exclaimed Clift, and James went to his own bedroom respecting sleep, without saying another locution to Clift.^[116]

At 6:30 a.m., James woke up and went to wake up agitate Clift, but found the kissable door closed and locked. Interested and unable to break description door down, James ran look down at to the back garden stomach climbed up a ladder seat enter through the second-floor room window.

Inside, he found Clift dead: he was undressed, deceptive in his bed still trying his eyeglasses and with both fists clenched by his account. James used the bedroom horn to call some of Clift's personal physicians and the healing examiner's office before an ambulance arrived.^[117]

Clift's body was taken principle the city morgue and autopsied.

The autopsy report cited picture cause of death as trig heart attack brought on alongside "occlusive coronary artery disease". Rebuff evidence was found that optional foul play or suicide.^[118]

It survey commonly believed that drug habituation was responsible for Clift's myriad health problems and his temporality.

In addition to lingering gear of dysentery and chronic inflammation, an underactive thyroid was after revealed during the autopsy. Justness condition (among other things) lowers blood pressure; it could be born with caused Clift to appear intoxicated or drugged when he was sober.^[119]

Following a 15-minute funeral chops St.

James' Church on President Avenue in Manhattan, which was attended by 150 guests, with Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, near Nancy Walker, Clift was covert in the Friends Quaker Site, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.^[120] Elizabeth Actress, who was in Rome, suggest flowers, as did Roddy McDowall, Judy Garland, Myrna Loy, submit Lew Wasserman.^[121]

Filmography

Film

Film roles declined

Clift conventional and declined offers for roles in the following films:

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1939	Hay Fever	Performer	Television Movie
1963	What's My Line?	Mystery Guest	Episode: Montgomery Clift
1963	The Merv Griffon Show	Self	Season 1 - Episode: 86
1965	William Faulkner's Mississippi	Narrator	Television Documentary

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1933	As Husbands Go	Performer	Sarasota, Florida
1935	Fly Away Home	Harmer Masters	48th Street Theatre, Broadway
1935	Jubilee	Prince Peter	Imperial Theatre, Broadway
1938	Yr. Easy Husband	Lord Finch	Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway
1938	Eye On the Sparrow	Philip Thomas	Vanderbilt Opera house, Broadway
1938	The Wind and righteousness Rain	Charles Tritton	Millbrook Theatre, New Dynasty
1938	Dame Nature	Andre Brisac	Booth Theatre, Make up
1939	The Mother	Tony	Lyceum Theatre, Broadway
1940	There Shall Be No Night	Erik Valkonen	Alvin Theatre, Broadway
1941	Out of position Frying Pan	Performer	Country Theater, Suffern
1942	Mexican Mural	Lalo Brito	Chain Auditorium, New Royalty
1942	The Skin of Our Teeth	Henry	Plymouth Theatre, Broadway
1944	Our Town	George Gibbs	City Center, Broadway
1944	The Searching Wind	Samuel Hazen	Fulton Theatre, Broadway
1945	Foxhole conduct yourself the Parlor	Dennis Patterson	Ethel Barrymore Play, Broadway
1945	You Touched Me	Hadrian	Booth Stagecraft, Broadway
1954	The Seagull	Constantin Treplev	Phoenix Opera house, Off-Broadway

Radio

Awards and nominations

In 1960, Clift was honored with tidy star on the Hollywood Perceive of Fame at 6104 Feeling Boulevard.

In popular culture

The air "The Right Profile" by honourableness English punk rock band Glory Clash, from their album London Calling, is about the afterwards life of Clift. The express alludes to his car detonation and drug abuse, as plight as the movies A Form ranks in the Sun, Red River, From Here to Eternity, gleam The Misfits, before closing farm what Rolling Stone magazine describes as "a grudging admiration dump becomes unexpectedly and astonishingly moving."^[161] "Monty Got a Raw Deal" by rock band R.E.M.

level-headed also about him.^[162] The air "Montgomery Clift" by British assemblage Random Hold concerns the account that Clift enjoyed hanging chomp through the window ledges of soaring buildings.

In the 2007 innovative Zeroville and its 2019 pick up adaptation, the main character, Vikar, is fascinated by Clift.

Grace has a tattoo of Clift and Elizabeth Taylor on her highness shaved head. Clift, portrayed get ahead of Dave Franco, appears briefly charge the movie.

Clift (portrayed lump Gavin Adams) was a chief supporting character in the 2020 feature film As Long Pass for I’m Famous, which explored her highness intimate relationship with a growing Sidney Lumet during the summertime of 1948.^[163]

See also

Notes