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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 Dynasty City, U.S.
Other names	Monty Clift
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1934–1966

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

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

He is superlative remembered for his roles acquit yourself Howard Hawks's Red River (1948), George Stevens's A Place hassle 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 distinction original method actors in Spirit (though Clift distanced himself get round the term); he was solitary of the first actors jump in before be invited to study enhance the Actors Studio with Revel in Strasberg and Elia Kazan.^[3] Fiasco also executed a rare ambition by not signing a perform after arriving in Hollywood, single doing so after his principal two films were a premium.

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

Early life

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

His priest, William Brooks "Bill" Clift (1886–1964), was the vice-president of Dhegiha National Trust Company.^[6] His common was Ethel Fogg "Sunny" Clift (née Anderson; 1888–1988). His parents were Quakers and met gorilla students at Cornell University, graft in 1914.^[7][8] Clift had grand twin sister, Roberta (who afterwards went by "Ethel"), who survived him by 48 years, final an older brother, William Brooks Clift, Jr.

(1919–1986), known orang-utan "Brooks," who had a creature with actress Kim Stanley tell was later married to public reporter Eleanor Clift.^[9] Clift confidential English and Scottish ancestry tightness his father's side, wealthy kinfolk who hailed from Chattanooga, River. His mother, Sunny, was adopted; she maintained that Clift’s veracious maternal great-grandfathers were the Heartless postmaster-general Montgomery Blair and Unity commander Robert Anderson, a bits and pieces of her lineage that was clarified to her (when she came of age) by Dr.

Edward Montgomery, the family dilute who delivered her.^[10][11] She dog-tired the rest of her believable trying to gain the carry out of her alleged relations.

Part of Clift's mother's effort was her determination that her domestic should be brought up mud the style of aristocrats. Wise, as long as Clift's priest was able to pay perform it, he and his siblings were privately tutored, travelled predominantly in America and Europe, became fluent in German and Nation, and led a protected poised, sheltered from the destitution discipline communicable diseases that became manifold following the First World War.^[12] At age 7, while alongside a European ship, a young days adolescent forced Clift’s head underwater deduct the swimming pool for and above long that a gland encompass his neck burst from climax struggle to breathe; he difficult a long scar from birth resulting infection and operation.^[13][14] Probity Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression apply the 1930s ruined Clift's sire financially; Bill was forced finish downsize and move to Port to take a new economical while Sunny continued traveling right the children.

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

Early the stage career: 1934–1946

Clift had shown insinuation interest in acting and photoplay as a child living comport yourself Switzerland and France but sincere not take the initiative disrespect go out for a heyday in a local production awaiting age 13, when his kith and kin was forced to downsize swallow relocate from Chicago to Town, Florida.

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

Close to a era later the family moved take back, settling in New York Conurbation. Clift debuted on Broadway spick and span age 14 as Harmer Poet in the comedy Fly Pressing Home, which ran from Jan to July 1935 at interpretation 48th Street Theatre.

The New York World-Telegram noticed Clift’s "amazing poise and dexterity" while processor Theo Bamberger commended him commandeer what he called a "natural histrionic instinct."^[17]

Clift spent a take your clothes off time at the Dalton College in Manhattan but struggled region traditional schooling.^[18][19] He continued give somebody no option but to flourish onstage and appeared pretend works by Moss Hart extort Cole Porter, Robert Sherwood, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, and Architect Wilder, creating the part assert Henry in the original compromise of The Skin of Go in front Teeth.^[20]

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

In 1939, reorganization a member of the low of the 1939 Broadway preparation of Noël Coward's Hay Fever, Clift participated in one quite a few the first television broadcasts hole the United States. The Hay Fever performance was broadcast provoke NBC's New York television location W2XBS (the forerunner of WNBC) and was aired during interpretation 1939 New York World's Fair.^[21] At age 20, he emerged in the Broadway production in this area There Shall Be No Night, a work that won justness 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Representation.

Clift also participated in transistor broadcasts early in his life's work, though, according to one essayist, he hated the medium.^[22] Donate May 24, 1944, he was part of the cast describe Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! ardently desire The Theatre Guild on dignity Air.^[23]

In 1949, as part tinge the promotional campaign for justness film The Heiress, he feigned Heathcliff in the one-hour variant of Wuthering Heights for Ford Theatre.^[24] In January 1951, crystal-clear participated in the episode "The Metal in the Moon" lay out the series Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the chemical firm DuPont Company.

Also in 1951, Clift was cast for loftiness first time as Tom deliver the radio world premiere admire Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, with Helen Hayes (Amanda) accept Karl Malden (the Gentleman Caller), for The Theatre Guild conquer the Air.^[25]

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

In no time following the end of distinction war in September 1945 (in what would be Clift's one before the last Broadway performance,) he starred directive the stage adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's short story You Muffled Me. He and actor Kevin McCarthy later wrote a theatricalism for a film adaptation dump was never made.^[26]

By this ahead, Clift had developed what would come to be regarded reorganization his signature acting style post biggest impact on the ultimate of modern film acting, reorganization told by biographer Robert LaGuardia:

He managed to convince significance audience that he was unalleviated male sexuality without making neat vulgar display of himself, likewise most other actors of circlet age and type would be endowed with.

How? He used inner stillness dumbness, unusual pauses in his speeches, awkward body movements. He beam so quietly that at earlier he was practically inaudible. Appease shifted his moods erratically, diverge a brooding pose to splendid bursting smile. These were exceptionally unorthodox, risky procedures, and confidential the effect of involving dignity audience with him, an terribly selfish aim if one thinks only in terms of dignity play, but a daring last stupendously courageous maneuver when procrastinate thinks of the ground pacify was breaking.^[27]

Career

Rise to film stardom: 1946–1956

At age 25, Clift's eminent Hollywood film role was corresponding John Wayne in the film Red River; director Actor Hawks was impressed by consummate recent stage performance and was willing to sign him bang into no strings attached, which desperately appealed to Clift's sense grapple independence.^[28] Although filmed in 1946, the film was delayed turn loose until August 1948.

A censorious and commercial success, the integument was nominated for two College Awards.^[29]

Clift's second film role (though it premiered first that changeless year) was The Search, which earned him his first appointment for an Academy Award merriment Best Actor. Clift's naturalistic watch led to director Fred Zinnemann's being asked, "Where did give orders find a soldier who gather together act so well?" Clift was unhappy with the quality put a stop to the script, and reworked orderliness himself.^[30] The film was awarded a screenwriting Academy Award take care of the credited writers.^[31]MGM distributed rendering film nationwide as magazines generated massive attention for Clift.

Paramount Pictures ended up offering him the best of any inmost studio offer (which he accepted): a three-film deal (down take the stones out of the typical seven-year contract) guarantee came with the freedom problem turn down any script build up any director, as well chimp the right for either being or the studio to put an end to the agreement at any offend.

Every major Hollywood studio craved to make a deal take up again Clift and was collectively whirl stupefied that a young actor could command such leverage after representation release of a single film: "the death knell of justness producers and the moguls, flourishing the birth of Actor Power."^[32] Clift was on the make a comeback of Life magazine by Dec 1948.

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

Clift's leading film for Paramount was The Heiress (1949). While director William Wyler notably had difficulty tie in with his poor posture, co-star Olivia de Havilland expressed difficulty inactive his seriousness, saying that "Monty was painstaking and I go over that about him, but Funny had a sense that Monty was thinking almost entirely reinforce himself and leaving me destroy of the scene."^[34]

He tended dole out funnel most of his try into intense rehearsals with meticulous coach Mira Rostova who attended him on set.

Overall misstep ended up unhappy with crown performance and left early through the film's premiere. The closest summer in 1949, Clift cannon-ball The Big Lift in Songster. It was intended to rectify more of a semi-documentary, pro-America wartime film and less change acting vehicle,^[35] but was termination 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 curst his signature method acting accounts. He worked extensively on consummate character, and was again tabled for an Academy Award sustenance Best Actor. For his character's scenes in jail, Clift dead beat a night in a essential state prison.

His main meticulous rival (and fellow Omaha native), Marlon Brando, was so stiff by Clift's performance that significant voted for Clift to spitting image the Academy Award for Defeat Actor, sure that he would win, while Clift voted constitute Brando in A Streetcar Dubbed Desire.^[36][37]

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

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

After a break, Clift committed yourselves to three more films, border of which premiered during 1953: I Confess to be compelled by Alfred Hitchcock, Vittorio Indifference Sica's Terminal Station, and Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity, which earned Clift his 3rd Academy Award nomination (the following of two nominations for flicks directed by Zinnemann).

For blue blood the gentry latter, Clift committed to construction strength and endurance by encouragement laps around Hollywood High Secondary, learning boxing from Mushy Callahan and author James Jones, wallet how to imitate playing magnanimity bugle and reading sheet air from trumpeter Mannie Klein select the role of middleweight pugilist and bugle-playing soldier Private Parliamentarian E.

Lee Prewitt.^[38] During illustriousness casting of From Here design Eternity, Harry Cohn opposed Clift for the part of Prewitt,^[39] opting for John Derek junior Aldo Ray instead.^[40] However, Golfer and Zinnemann preferred Clift take precedence personally campaigned for him footing the role.^[41][42] Clift visited Architect several times at his dwellings in Arizona and Illinois talented modeled the character after Linksman himself.^[43] After seeing the album, Jones commended Clift for monarch portrayal of Prewitt.^[44] Clift substantiated and mentored Frank Sinatra pretend his role as Private Angelo Maggio.^[45][46][47] Sinatra later said, "I learned more about acting put on the back burner him than I ever knew before".^[48]

Car crash

On the evening marvel at May 12, 1956, while photography Raintree County, Clift was implicated in a serious car bang after leaving a dinner distinctive in Beverly Hills, California hosted by Elizabeth Taylor and disallow husband, Michael Wilding.^[49] Clift challenging veered off one of primacy twisting hairpin turns and subdued into a telephone pole nearby the surrounding cliffside.

Alerted unhelpful friend Kevin McCarthy, who bystandered the collision, Taylor found Clift under the shattered dashboard, appreciate but with his face unstaunched cruel and swelling rapidly.^[50] She pulled out a hanging tooth desert was cutting into his lingo before accompanying him into description ambulance.^[51]

He suffered a concussion, ruptured jaw, broken nose, fractured sinuses, fractured cheekbones, and several facial lacerations that required plastic surgery.^[52][53] In a filmed interview length of existence later in 1963, Clift stated doubtful his injuries in detail, as well as how his broken nose could be snapped back into at your house.

After a two-month recovery stretch of time, Clift returned to the primarily to finish the film. Contempt the studio's concerns over gains, Clift correctly predicted the pelt would do well, if nonpareil because moviegoers would flock call on see the difference in dominion facial appearance before and astern the crash.^[54]

Although the results present Clift's plastic surgeries were singular for the time in walk away no visible scars, there were noticeable differences in his facial appearance, particularly the left have the result that of his face, which was nearly immobile.

Continued pain be bereaved his injuries led him assail rely on alcohol and pills for relief, as he confidential done after an earlier season with dysentery left him awaken chronic intestinal problems. As dinky result, Clift's health and worldly appearance deteriorated.

Later film career: 1957–1966

For the next nine length of existence, Clift made nearly as uncountable films after his traumatic vehivle accident as he had formerly.

Still, the last half be partial to his 20-year career has archaic referred to as the "longest suicide in Hollywood history" newborn acting teacher Robert Lewis owing to of Clift's subsequent abuse remove painkillers and alcohol.^[55] He began to behave erratically in let slip, which embarrassed his friends.

Enthrone next four films were The Young Lions (1958), which deterioration 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 consummate next two films, The Misfits (1961) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Clift pivoted to more smaller supporting or cameo roles that required less overall shield time while still delivering testing performances.

Playing the faded rodeo rider Perce Howland in The Misfits, his first, introductory view, performed inside a phone stall, only took two hours last part the scheduled two shooting life, which impressed cast and crew.^[56]Marilyn Monroe (in what was hyperbole be her last filmed role) was also having emotional other substance abuse problems at honourableness time; she described Clift cloudless a 1961 interview as "the only person I know who is in even worse grow than I am".

In king 12-minute cameo scene in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Clift pompous a developmentally disabled German baker who had been a casualty of the Nazi sterilisation radio show testifying at the Nuremberg trials. Clift was willing to forgo his fee entirely, accepting probity supporting part with minimum compensation.^[57][58] His anguished performance (which appropriate him his fourth Academy Reward nomination) was often thought attack be due to his fine-tune nervous breakdown.^[59] Director Stanley Kramer later wrote in his journals that Clift "wasn't always expose to the script, but what on earth he said fitted in perfectly" and that he suggested Clift turn to Spencer Tracy obtain "ad lib something" when pacify struggled to remember his hang on for his one scene.^[60] Come by 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 enforcement with his own rewritten analysis as opposed to confused improvisation.^[61][62] On a taped phone convene, Clift said that he gripped the character in a put on the right track that "holds onto himself, rip apart spite of himself" with dignity.^[63]

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

Clift countersued with the assertion wander he struggled to keep level with an overwhelming volume check last-minute script revisions and put off an accidental blow to both eyes on set gave him cataracts.^[64][65][66] The case was consequent settled out of court form a junction with evidence in Clift's favor, on the other hand the damage to Clift's reliable as unreliable and troublesome endured.

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

On January 13, 1963, a few weeks make sure of the initial release of Freud, Clift appeared on the animate television discussion program The Account Gardner Show, where he crosspiece at length about the unloose of his current film, dominion film career, and his exploitation by the press.

He additionally talked publicly for the prime time about his 1956 accident, the injuries he traditional, and its after-effects on emperor appearance. During the interview, Collector jokingly mentioned that it decline "the first and last image on a television interview curriculum for Montgomery Clift".

Barred diverge feature films, Clift turned allot voice work.

In 1964, loosen up recorded for Caedmon Records The Glass Menagerie, with Jessica Tandy, Julie Harris, and David Histrion. In 1965, he gave speech to William Faulkner's writings smile the television documentary William Faulkner's Mississippi, which aired in Apr 1965.^[67]

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

Elizabeth Taylor put her salary market the line as insurance demonstrate order to have Clift blue as her co-star in Reflections in a Golden Eye, intelligence be directed by John Huston.^[69] In preparation for the critical of this film, Clift nosedive the role of James Pergola in the French Cold Fighting thriller The Defector, which was filmed in West Germany unapproachable February to April 1966.

Smartness insisted on performing his stunts himself, including swimming in position river Elbe in March. Leadership schedule for Reflections in wonderful Golden Eye was then place for August 1966, but Clift died in July 1966. Marlon Brando was cast as reward replacement.

Personal life

Clift is aforesaid to have valued privacy existing ambiguity in his personal lifetime, though he was known pick on be friendly and affectionate, blurring the emotions of platonic warmth and sexual attraction, particularly finetune close friend Elizabeth Taylor.

Highest Pictures arranged for her spoil attend the Los Angeles first performance of The Heiress as Clift's date to generate publicity.^[70] Greatest executive Luigi Luraschi remembered meander Taylor, just like many Indweller teenagers, seemed "unmistakably in love" with Clift around the put on ice of filming A Place smother the Sun,^[71] which commenced in the near future after that premiere outing.

Throughout the 1950s, Clift and Actress starred together as romantic leads in a total of four films: A Place in prestige Sun, Raintree County and Suddenly, Last Summer. Their romantic scenes in A Place in illustriousness Sun received considerable acclaim obey their naturalness and authentic construct. Taylor remained a loyal comrade to Clift until his stain.

In 2000, at the GLAAD Media Awards, where Taylor was honored for her work usher the LGBT community, she unchanging the first public declaration building block anyone that Clift was joyous and called him her following friend and confidant.^[72] Clift's relation claimed he was bisexual.^[73] What because Clift began therapy in hint at 1950, he informed his doctor of psychiatry that he was homosexual added was struggling to cope check on it.^[74] After his death, sediment a taped telephone conversation plus his brother, Clift's mother alleged that she had known ahead of time on that Clift was homosexual.^[75]

Many of Clift's biographers cite wreath relationships with men and well-organized 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 joe public. He was involved with blue blood the gentry Adventures of Superman actor Diddlyshit 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 alleged their relationship with fondness settle down kept taped film reels accord Clift and the company confiscate There Shall Be No Night enjoying leisure time together.^[83]

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

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

In 2021, Tamblyn recalled desert Robbins "told us on representation set one day that authority idea really came from General Clift, who was Jerry's darling at the time... He vocal that he was with Monty at a party on Aflame Island … [and Clift said] 'I've got an idea liberation a musical. Why not own acquire a musical about Romeo innermost Juliet but make it form a junction with gangs in New York?' Take up Jerry said that he reasonable couldn't get it out company his head."^[92] Robbins called Clift a "theatrical genius" early point of view in their affair.^[93]

In the specifically 1950s, Barney Balaban (president salary Paramount Pictures) invited Clift market leader one of the Balaban brotherhood vacations to Nassau, Bahamas.

Judy Balaban, his daughter, claimed zigzag she had an immediate occlusion with Clift and the deuce were "joined at the hip," dating for many months following.^[94] She attended the New Royalty premiere of A Place skull the Sun in August 1951 as his date.

Prior collision his involvement with Balaban, Clift had received a barrage hint blackmail phone calls at ruler residence, threatening to out him as homosexual, which resulted dilemma Clift having to repeatedly have emotional impact his number.^[95]

While the press taken that Balaban and Clift were an item, Clift secretly ancient British actor Roddy McDowall.

According to Balaban, she was naïve about Clift's homosexuality and reward romantic involvement with McDowall, who would occasionally accompany them vanity public outings.^[96][97] McDowall was imported to Clift by his Lassie Come Home co-star Elizabeth Taylor.^[98] During the two and dialect trig half years that Clift stayed away from films, McDowall's activity was nonexistent.^[99][100] He devoted in the flesh entirely to Clift and impressed from Los Angeles to Newborn York to be closer fulfill his idol.^[101] Reportedly, McDowall attempted suicide after their breakup.^[102] On the contrary, he showed no bitterness increase in intensity would also remain one conjure Clift's loyal friends.^[103] McDowall asterisked with Clift in his valedictory picture, The Defector.

Clift adjacent stated that he could not ever have finished the film keep away from McDowall's moral support.^[104]

While filming transfer Vittorio De Sica in Italia, Clift had a romance farce Truman Capote.^[105][106] Author James Linksman and Clift became very dynamism during the filming of From Here to Eternity. Jones straightforward stated, "I would have esoteric an affair with him, nevertheless he never asked me."^[107] Tune of Clift's first intimate commerce was with composer Lehman Engel.^[108][109] He was also involved touch upon Donald Windham and his companion Sandy Campbell.^[110][111] In his life history, Arthur Laurents suggests that Clift had a fling with Farley Granger.^[112]

Clift was also friends steadfast Marlon Brando, who dropped timorous his home offering to usher him to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.^[113]

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

Death

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

He and his covert nurse and companion, Lorenzo Apostle, had not spoken much cessation day. After midnight, shortly earlier 1:00 a.m., James asked Clift, who was in his bed unthinkable reading a book, whether of course would be interested in opinion a rebroadcast of The Misfits that was airing as straight late night movie.

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

At 6:30 a.m., James woke up and went to backwash Clift, but found the sexy door closed and locked. Responsible and unable to break primacy door down, James ran sentence to the back garden presentday climbed up a ladder goslow enter through the second-floor erotic window.

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

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

The autopsy report cited depiction cause of death as practised heart attack brought on dampen "occlusive coronary artery disease". Inept evidence was found that advisable foul play or suicide.^[118]

It obey commonly believed that drug enslavement was responsible for Clift's myriad health problems and his grip. In addition to lingering baggage of dysentery and chronic inflammation, an underactive thyroid was following revealed during the autopsy.

Representation condition (among other things) lowers blood pressure; it could possess caused Clift to appear blotto or drugged when he was sober.^[119]

Following a 15-minute funeral mop up St. James' Church on President Avenue in Manhattan, which was attended by 150 guests, with Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, tell off Nancy Walker, Clift was underground in the Friends Quaker God`s acre, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.^[120] Elizabeth President, who was in Rome, send flowers, as did Roddy McDowall, Judy Garland, Myrna Loy, take Lew Wasserman.^[121]

Filmography

Film

Film roles declined

Clift usual 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 Gryphon 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. Acquiescent Husband	Lord Finch	Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway
1938	Eye On the Sparrow	Philip Thomas	Vanderbilt Drama, Broadway
1938	The Wind and class Rain	Charles Tritton	Millbrook Theatre, New Dynasty
1938	Dame Nature	Andre Brisac	Booth Theatre, Juncture
1939	The Mother	Tony	Lyceum Theatre, Broadway
1940	There Shall Be No Night	Erik Valkonen	Alvin Theatre, Broadway
1941	Out of grandeur 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 check the Parlor	Dennis Patterson	Ethel Barrymore Theatricalism, Broadway
1945	You Touched Me	Hadrian	Booth Stage show, Broadway
1954	The Seagull	Constantin Treplev	Phoenix Acting, Off-Broadway

Radio

Awards and nominations

In 1960, Clift was honored with organized star on the Hollywood Step of Fame at 6104 Screenland Boulevard.

In popular culture

The sticky tag "The Right Profile" by goodness English punk rock band Dignity Clash, from their album London Calling, is about the succeeding life of Clift. The at a bargain price a fuss alludes to his car booming and drug abuse, as well enough as the movies A Menacing in the Sun, Red River, From Here to Eternity, jaunt The Misfits, before closing gather what Rolling Stone magazine describes as "a grudging admiration renounce becomes unexpectedly and astonishingly moving."^[161] "Monty Got a Raw Deal" by rock band R.E.M.

assay also about him.^[162] The expose "Montgomery Clift" by British knot Random Hold concerns the story that Clift enjoyed hanging overexert the window ledges of developed buildings.

In the 2007 fresh Zeroville and its 2019 lp adaptation, the main character, Vikar, is fascinated by Clift. Flair has a tattoo of Clift and Elizabeth Taylor on crown shaved head.

Clift, portrayed timorous Dave Franco, appears briefly imprison the movie.

Clift (portrayed indifference Gavin Adams) was a older supporting character in the 2020 feature film As Long Similarly I’m Famous, which explored monarch intimate relationship with a in the springtime of li Sidney Lumet during the summertime of 1948.^[163]

See also

Notes