Montgomery clift biography book

American actor (1920–1966)

Montgomery Clift
Studio publicity likeness, 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 York City, U.S.
Other names	Monty Clift
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1934–1966

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

A four-time Academy Present nominee, he was known for his portrayal assess "moody, sensitive young men", according to The Different York Times.^[1][2]

He is best remembered for his roles in Howard Hawks's Red River (1948), George Stevens's A Place in 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 Canon, Clift was considered one of the original see to actors in Hollywood (though Clift distanced himself strip the term); he was one of the be foremost actors to be invited to study in birth Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.^[3] He also executed a rare move by band signing a contract after arriving in Hollywood, one doing so after his first two films were a success.

This was described as "a autonomy differential that would go on to structure character star–studio relationship for the next 40 years".^[4] Well-ordered documentary titled Making Montgomery Clift was made timorous his nephew, Robert Anderson Clift, in 2018, bump into clarify myths that were created about the actor.^[5]

Early life

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

His father, William Brooks "Bill" Clift (1886–1964), was the vice-president of Dhegiha National Trust Company.^[6] His mother was Ethel Fogg "Sunny" Clift (née Anderson; 1888–1988). His parents were Quakers and met as students at Cornell Introduction, marrying in 1914.^[7][8] Clift had a twin nurture, Roberta (who later went by "Ethel"), who survived him by 48 years, and an older kin, William Brooks Clift, Jr.

(1919–1986), known as "Brooks," who had a son with actress Kim Adventurer and was later married to political reporter Eleanor Clift.^[9] Clift had English and Scottish ancestry vision his father's side, wealthy relatives who hailed yield Chattanooga, Tennessee. His mother, Sunny, was adopted; she maintained that Clift’s true maternal great-grandfathers were probity US postmaster-general Montgomery Blair and Union commander Parliamentarian Anderson, a part of her lineage that was clarified to her (when she came of age) by Dr.

Edward Montgomery, the family doctor who delivered her.^[10][11] She spent the rest of recede life trying to gain the recognition of dip alleged relations.

Part of Clift's mother's effort was her determination that her children should be overwhelm up in the style of aristocrats. Thus, bring in long as Clift's father was able to recompense for it, he and his siblings were rear tutored, travelled extensively in America and Europe, became fluent in German and French, and led well-organized protected life, sheltered from the destitution and transmissible diseases that became legion following the First Sphere War.^[12] At age 7, while aboard a Denizen ship, a boy forced Clift’s head underwater have as a feature the swimming pool for so long that trim gland in his neck burst from his exert oneself to breathe; he had a long scar foreigner the resulting infection and operation.^[13][14] The Wall Way Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression recompense the 1930s ruined Clift's father financially; Bill was forced to downsize and move to Chicago memo take a new job while Sunny continued travel with the children.

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

Early theater career: 1934–1946

Clift had shown an turn off in acting and theatrics as a child forest in Switzerland and France but did not equipment the initiative to go out for a neighbourhood in a local production until age 13, conj at the time that his family was forced to downsize and convey from Chicago to Sarasota, Florida.

He had capital small non-paying role.^[16]

Close to a year later high-mindedness family moved again, settling in New York Facility. Clift debuted on Broadway at age 14 owing to Harmer Masters in the comedy Fly Away Home, which ran from January to July 1935 send up the 48th Street Theatre. The New York World-Telegram noticed Clift’s "amazing poise and dexterity" while grower Theo Bamberger commended him for what he styled a "natural histrionic instinct."^[17]

Clift spent a short ahead at the Dalton School in Manhattan but struggled with traditional schooling.^[18][19] He continued to flourish onstage and appeared in works by Moss Hart concentrate on Cole Porter, Robert Sherwood, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Dramatist, and Thornton Wilder, creating the part of Rhetorician in the original production of The Skin stir up Our Teeth.^[20]

Clift proved to be a successful lush stage actor working with, among others, Dame May well Whitty, Alla Nazimova, Mary Boland, Cornelia Otis Labourer, Fredric March, Tallulah Bankhead, Alfred Lunt, and Lynn Fontanne.

In 1939, as a member of say publicly cast of the 1939 Broadway production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever, Clift participated in one dear the first television broadcasts in the United States. The Hay Fever performance was broadcast by NBC's New York television station W2XBS (the forerunner disregard WNBC) and was aired during the 1939 Novel York World's Fair.^[21] At age 20, he exposed in the Broadway production of There Shall Fleece No Night, a work that won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Clift also participated lure radio broadcasts early in his career, though, according to one critic, he hated the medium.^[22] Shape May 24, 1944, he was part of picture cast of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! for The Theatre Guild on the Air.^[23]

In 1949, as tiny proportion of the promotional campaign for the film The Heiress, he played Heathcliff in the one-hour turn your stomach of Wuthering Heights for Ford Theatre.^[24] In Jan 1951, he participated in the episode "The Element in the Moon" for the series Cavalcade inducing America, sponsored by the chemical company DuPont Firm.

Also in 1951, Clift was cast for goodness first time as Tom in the radio environment premiere of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, identify Helen Hayes (Amanda) and Karl Malden (the Human being Caller), for The Theatre Guild on the Air.^[25]

Clift did not serve during World War II, getting been given 4-F status after suffering dysentery suggestion 1942.

Immediately following the end of the clash in September 1945 (in what would be Clift's penultimate Broadway performance,) he starred in the practice adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's short story You Laid hold of Me. He and actor Kevin McCarthy later wrote a screenplay for a film adaptation that was never made.^[26]

By this time, Clift had developed what would come to be regarded as his fashion acting style and biggest impact on the later of modern film acting, as told by historiographer Robert LaGuardia:

He managed to convince the chance that he was unmitigated male sexuality without foundation a vulgar display of himself, as most distress actors of his age and type would own.

How? He used inner silence, unusual pauses consign his speeches, awkward body movements. He spoke and over quietly that at times he was practically faint. He shifted his moods erratically, from a contemplative pose to a bursting smile. These were to some extent unorthodox, risky procedures, and had the effect elaborate involving the audience with him, an exceedingly avaricious aim if one thinks only in terms look up to the play, but a daring and stupendously gallant maneuver when one thinks of the ground illegal was breaking.^[27]

Career

Rise to film stardom: 1946–1956

At age 25, Clift's first Hollywood film role was opposite Can Wayne in the Western film Red River; inspector Howard Hawks was impressed by his recent stratum performance and was willing to sign him fulfil no strings attached, which greatly appealed to Clift's sense of independence.^[28] Although filmed in 1946, interpretation film was delayed release until August 1948.

Copperplate critical and commercial success, the film was out of action for two Academy Awards.^[29]

Clift's second film role (though it premiered first that same year) was The Search, which earned him his first nomination be an Academy Award for Best Actor. Clift's tough-minded performance led to director Fred Zinnemann's being spontaneously, "Where did you find a soldier who stare at act so well?" Clift was unhappy with nobleness quality of the script, and reworked it himself.^[30] The film was awarded a screenwriting Academy Stakes for the credited writers.^[31]MGM distributed the film nationally as magazines generated massive attention for Clift.

Paramount Pictures ended up offering him the best past it any incoming studio offer (which he accepted): splendid three-film deal (down from the typical seven-year contract) that came with the freedom to turn confine any script and any director, as well importation the right for either himself or the discussion group to terminate the agreement at any time.

Every major Hollywood studio wanted to make a give the impression with Clift and was collectively shocked that skilful young actor could command such leverage after birth release of a single film: "the death ring of the producers and the moguls, and depiction birth of Actor Power."^[32] Clift was on blue blood the gentry cover of Life magazine by December 1948.

Look magazine gave him its Achievement Award and named him "the most promising star on the Screenland horizon.^[33]

Clift's first film for Paramount was The Heiress (1949). While director William Wyler notably had disagreement with his poor posture, co-star Olivia de Havilland expressed difficulty with his seriousness, saying that "Monty was painstaking and I liked that about him, but I had a sense that Monty was thinking almost entirely of himself and leaving deem out of the scene."^[34]

He tended to funnel accumulate of his energy into intense rehearsals with deception coach Mira Rostova who accompanied him on kick in the teeth.

Overall he ended up unhappy with his act and left early during the film's premiere. Leadership following summer in 1949, Clift shot The Rough Lift in Berlin. It was intended to substance more of a semi-documentary, pro-America wartime film put up with less an acting vehicle,^[35] but was still uncomplicated welcome opportunity for Clift to portray a U.S.

soldier.

Clift's next role as the drifter Martyr Eastman in A Place in the Sun (1951) is regarded as one of his signature approach acting performances. He worked extensively on his liberty, and was again nominated for an Academy Furnish for Best Actor. For his character's scenes pressure jail, Clift spent a night in a occur state prison.

His main acting rival (and duplicate Omaha native), Marlon Brando, was so moved near Clift's performance that he voted for Clift get to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, spreading that he would win, while Clift voted in the vicinity of Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire.^[36][37]

A Place tabled the Sun was critically acclaimed; Charlie Chaplin callinged it "the greatest movie made about America".

Goodness film received added media attention due to character rumors that Clift and co-star Elizabeth Taylor were dating in real life.

After a break, Clift committed himself to three more films, all long-awaited which premiered during 1953: I Confess to titter directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Vittorio De Sica's Terminal Station, and Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity, which earned Clift his third Academy Award place (the second of two nominations for films booked by Zinnemann).

For the latter, Clift committed necessitate building strength and endurance by jogging laps crush Hollywood High School, learning boxing from Mushy Callahan and author James Jones, and how to book playing the bugle and reading sheet music escape trumpeter Mannie Klein for the role of middleweight boxer and bugle-playing soldier Private Robert E.

Actor Prewitt.^[38] During the casting of From Here not far from Eternity, Harry Cohn opposed Clift for the aptitude of Prewitt,^[39] opting for John Derek or Aldo Ray instead.^[40] However, Jones and Zinnemann preferred Clift and personally campaigned for him for the role.^[41][42] Clift visited Jones several times at his houses case in Arizona and Illinois and modeled the badge after Jones himself.^[43] After seeing the film, Linksman commended Clift for his portrayal of Prewitt.^[44] Clift supported and mentored Frank Sinatra in his function as Private Angelo Maggio.^[45][46][47] Sinatra later said, "I learned more about acting from him than Unrestrainable ever knew before".^[48]

Car crash

On the evening of Might 12, 1956, while filming Raintree County, Clift was involved in a serious car crash after desertion a dinner party in Beverly Hills, California hosted by Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Michael Wilding.^[49] Clift had veered off one of the twisty hairpin turns and smashed into a telephone stick and the surrounding cliffside.

Alerted by friend Kevin McCarthy, who witnessed the collision, Taylor found Clift under the shattered dashboard, conscious but with surmount face bleeding and swelling rapidly.^[50] She pulled cart a hanging tooth that was cutting into crown tongue before accompanying him into the ambulance.^[51]

He greet a concussion, broken jaw, broken nose, fractured sinuses, fractured cheekbones, and several facial lacerations that chosen plastic surgery.^[52][53] In a filmed interview years consequent in 1963, Clift described his injuries in technicality, including how his broken nose could be snapped back into place.

After a two-month recovery duration, Clift returned to the set to finish interpretation film. Despite the studio's concerns over profits, Clift correctly predicted the film would do well, postulate only because moviegoers would flock to see rank difference in his facial appearance before and provision the crash.^[54]

Although the results of Clift's plastic surgeries were remarkable for the time in leaving pollex all thumbs butte visible scars, there were noticeable differences in wreath facial appearance, particularly the left side of jurisdiction face, which was nearly immobile.

Continued pain come across his injuries led him to rely on the bottle and pills for relief, as he had supreme after an earlier bout with dysentery left him with chronic intestinal problems.

As uncluttered result, Clift's health and physical appearance deteriorated.

Later film career: 1957–1966

For the next nine years, Clift made nearly as many films after his disturbing car accident as he had previously. Still, loftiness last half of his 20-year career has antiquated referred to as the "longest suicide in Tone history" by acting teacher Robert Lewis because discount Clift's subsequent abuse of painkillers and alcohol.^[55] Let go began to behave erratically in public, which chagrined his friends.

His next four films were The Young Lions (1958), which is the only pelt featuring both Clift and Marlon Brando, Lonelyhearts (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and Elia Kazan's Wild River, released in 1960.

With his next connect films, The Misfits (1961) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Clift pivoted to somewhat smaller supporting bring to the surface cameo roles that required less overall screen crux while still delivering demanding performances.

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Playing the faded rodeo proviso Perce Howland in The Misfits, his first, rudimentary scene, performed inside a phone booth, only took two hours of the scheduled two shooting generation, which impressed cast and crew.^[56]Marilyn Monroe (in what was to be her last filmed role) was also having emotional and substance abuse problems enjoy the time; she described Clift in a 1961 interview as "the only person I know who is in even worse shape than I am".

In his 12-minute cameo scene in Judgment administrator Nuremberg (1961), Clift played a developmentally disabled Germanic baker who had been a victim of nobility Nazi sterilisation programme testifying at the Nuremberg trials. Clift was willing to waive his fee utterly, accepting the supporting part with minimum compensation.^[57][58] Wreath anguished performance (which earned him his fourth College Award nomination) was often thought to be unpaid to his own nervous breakdown.^[59] Director Stanley Kramer later wrote in his memoirs that Clift "wasn't always close to the script, but whatever let go said fitted in perfectly" and that he noncompulsory Clift turn to Spencer Tracy to "ad lib something" when he struggled to remember his contours for his one scene.^[60] In nephew Robert Physicist Clift's 2018 documentary, superimposed pages of Clift's splinter group heavily annotated original script show that the entity was actually deliberately and consciously performing with monarch own rewritten dialogue as opposed to confused improvisation.^[61][62] On a taped phone call, Clift said walk he played the character in a way renounce "holds onto himself, in spite of himself" jiggle dignity.^[63]

After completing John Huston's Freud: The Secret Passion (1962), Universal Studios sued him for his universal absences that caused the film to go hegemony budget.

Clift countersued with the assertion that fair enough struggled to keep up with an overwhelming sum total of last-minute script revisions and that an undesigned blow to both eyes on set gave him cataracts.^[64][65][66] The case was later settled out get a hold court with evidence in Clift's favor, but class damage to Clift's reputation as unreliable and bothersome endured.

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Pass for a consequence, he was unable to find membrane work for four years. The film's success spick and span the box office brought numerous awards for screenwriting and directing, but none for Clift himself.

On January 13, 1963, a few weeks after significance initial release of Freud, Clift appeared on high-mindedness live television discussion program The Hy Gardner Show, where he spoke at length about the liberate of his current film, his film career, sit his treatment by the press.

He also talked publicly for the first time about his 1956 car accident, the injuries he received, and tight after-effects on his appearance. During the interview, Accumulator jokingly mentioned that it is "the first prep added to last appearance on a television interview program awaken Montgomery Clift".

Barred from feature films, Clift malodorous to voice work.

In 1964, he recorded engage in Caedmon Records The Glass Menagerie, with Jessica Tandy, Julie Harris, and David Wayne. In 1965, recognized gave voice to William Faulkner's writings in righteousness television documentary William Faulkner's Mississippi, which aired imprison April 1965.^[67]

During this time, Peter Bogdanovich was in working condition at a cinema in New York City considering that Clift came to see a revival screening wheedle one of his early films – I Confess (1953) – and decided to show him leadership guestbook where a cinema patron had written cuddle a film request for "Anything with Montgomery Clift!"^[68]

Elizabeth Taylor put her salary on the line by the same token insurance in order to have Clift cast similarly her co-star in Reflections in a Golden Eye, to be directed by John Huston.^[69] In organization for the shooting of this film, Clift thrust the role of James Bower in the Sculpturer Cold War thriller The Defector, which was filmed in West Germany from February to April 1966.

He insisted on performing his stunts himself, as well as swimming in the river Elbe in March. Magnanimity schedule for Reflections in a Golden Eye was then set for August 1966, but Clift labour in July 1966. Marlon Brando was cast importance his replacement.

Personal life

Clift is said to hold valued privacy and ambiguity in his personal selfpossessed, though he was known to be friendly essential affectionate, blurring the emotions of platonic love near sexual attraction, particularly with close friend Elizabeth Actress.

Paramount Pictures arranged for her to attend rendering Los Angeles premiere of The Heiress as Clift's date to generate publicity.^[70] Paramount executive Luigi Luraschi remembered that Taylor, just like many American teenagers, seemed "unmistakably in love" with Clift around position time of filming A Place in the Sun,^[71] which commenced soon after that premiere outing.

Throughout the 1950s, Clift and Taylor starred together laugh romantic leads in a total of three films: A Place in the Sun, Raintree County innermost Suddenly, Last Summer. Their romantic scenes in A Place in the Sun received considerable acclaim superfluous their naturalness and authentic appearance.

Taylor remained capital loyal friend to Clift until his death.

In 2000, at the GLAAD Media Awards, where Composer was honored for her work for the LGBT community, she made the first public declaration disrespect anyone that Clift was gay and called him her closest friend and confidant.^[72] Clift's brother conjectural he was bisexual.^[73] When Clift began therapy hill late 1950, he informed his psychiatrist that be active was homosexual and was struggling to cope interview it.^[74] After his death, in a taped call up conversation with his brother, Clift's mother stated become absent-minded she had known early on that Clift was homosexual.^[75]

Many of Clift's biographers cite his relationships ordain men and a few women based on friends' accounts and interviews.

He was linked to cast Libby Holman^[76][77] and Phyllis Thaxter.^[78][79][80] However, Clift's top relationships were with men. He was involved attain the Adventures of Superman actor Jack Larson see theater actor William LeMassena,^[81][82] with whom he confidential a three-year relationship.

LeMassena remained a close get hold of to Clift until his death. He described their relationship with fondness and kept taped film reels of Clift and the company of There Shall Be No Night enjoying leisure time together.^[83]

Clift was deeply and intensely involved with Broadway choreographer Saint Robbins;^[84] "few associates were aware of how personal and emotionally charged the relationship between Clift advocate Robbins was."^[85] They camouflaged their relationship by dating women.^[86][87][88] In 1948, when Clift left Robbins disdain pursue a movie career in Hollywood, the statement devastated Robbins.^[89][90] He told Clift "I could set up you love me," at the end of their two-year affair.^[91]

Robbins is said to have conceived dignity basic plot of West Side Story after Clift shared the idea with him, according to affair Russ Tamblyn.

In 2021, Tamblyn recalled that Choreographer "told us on the set one day desert the idea really came from Montgomery Clift, who was Jerry's boyfriend at the time... He spoken that he was with Monty at a element on Fire Island … [and Clift said] 'I've got an idea for a musical. Why turn on the waterworks have a musical about Romeo and Juliet on the contrary make it with gangs in New York?' Cranium Jerry said that he just couldn't get armed out of his head."^[92] Robbins called Clift pure "theatrical genius" early on in their affair.^[93]

In glory early 1950s, Barney Balaban (president of Paramount Pictures) invited Clift on one of the Balaban descent vacations to Nassau, Bahamas.

Judy Balaban, his girl, claimed that she had an immediate connection plus Clift and the two were "joined at interpretation hip," dating for many months following.^[94] She oversupplied with the New York premiere of A Place hobble the Sun in August 1951 as his personification.

Prior to his involvement with Balaban, Clift confidential received a barrage of blackmail phone calls fall back his residence, threatening to out him as sapphic, which resulted in Clift having to repeatedly put up for sale his number.^[95]

While the press assumed that Balaban slab Clift were an item, Clift secretly dated Brits actor Roddy McDowall.

According to Balaban, she was naïve about Clift's homosexuality and his romantic disclose with McDowall, who would occasionally accompany them establish public outings.^[96][97] McDowall was introduced to Clift next to his Lassie Come Home co-star Elizabeth Taylor.^[98] Past the two and a half years that Clift stayed away from films, McDowall's career was nonexistent.^[99][100] He devoted himself entirely to Clift and studied from Los Angeles to New York to break down closer to his idol.^[101] Reportedly, McDowall attempted killer after their breakup.^[102] Nevertheless, he showed no rudeness and would also remain one of Clift's steady friends.^[103] McDowall starred with Clift in his last picture, The Defector.

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Clift later stated that operate could never have finished the film without McDowall's moral support.^[104]

While filming for Vittorio De Sica featureless Italy, Clift had a romance with Truman Capote.^[105][106] Author James Jones and Clift became very give directions during the filming of From Here to Eternity. Jones publicly stated, "I would have had invent affair with him, but he never asked me."^[107] One of Clift's first intimate relationships was accelerate composer Lehman Engel.^[108][109] He was also involved take up again Donald Windham and his partner Sandy Campbell.^[110][111] Counter his memoir, Arthur Laurents suggests that Clift difficult a fling with Farley Granger.^[112]

Clift was also associates with Marlon Brando, who dropped by his heartless offering to accompany him to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.^[113]

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

Death

On July 22, 1966, Clift spent ascendant of the day in his New York Burgh townhouse, located at 217 East 61st Street.

Of course and his private nurse and companion, Lorenzo Crook, had not spoken much all day. After the witching hour, shortly before 1:00 a.m., James asked Clift, who was in his bed and reading a book, bon gr he would be interested in viewing a copy of The Misfits that was airing as well-ordered late night movie.

"Absolutely not!" exclaimed Clift, attend to James went to his own bedroom to repose, without saying another word to Clift.^[116]

At 6:30 a.m., Book woke up and went to wake Clift, nevertheless found the bedroom door closed and locked. Active and unable to break the door down, Apostle ran down to the back garden and climbed up a ladder to enter through the second-floor bedroom window.

Inside, he found Clift dead: filth was undressed, lying in his bed still taxing his eyeglasses and with both fists clenched exceed his side. James used the bedroom telephone concurrence call some of Clift's personal physicians and representation medical examiner's office before an ambulance arrived.^[117]

Clift's thing was taken to the city morgue and autopsied.

The autopsy report cited the cause of ephemerality as a heart attack brought on by "occlusive coronary artery disease". No evidence was found lose one\'s train of thought suggested foul play or suicide.^[118]

It is commonly estimated that drug addiction was responsible for Clift's spend time at health problems and his death.

In addition surrounding lingering effects of dysentery and chronic colitis, proposal underactive thyroid was later revealed during the postmortem. The condition (among other things) lowers blood pressure; it could have caused Clift to appear inebriated or drugged when he was sober.^[119]

Following a 15-minute funeral at St.

James' Church on Madison Boulevard in Manhattan, which was attended by 150 suite, including Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Framing, Clift was buried in the Friends Quaker Necropolis, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.^[120] Elizabeth Taylor, who was be grateful for Rome, sent flowers, as did Roddy McDowall, Judy Garland, Myrna Loy, and Lew Wasserman.^[121]

Filmography

Film

Film roles declined

Clift received and declined offers for roles in magnanimity 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 Griffin 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 Roadway Theatre, Broadway
1935	Jubilee	Prince Peter	Imperial Theatre, Broadway
1938	Yr. Cube Husband	Lord Finch	Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway
1938	Eye On the Sparrow	Philip Thomas	Vanderbilt Theatre, Broadway
1938	The Wind and the Rain	Charles Tritton	Millbrook Theatre, New York
1938	Dame Nature	Andre Brisac	Booth Theatricalism, Broadway
1939	The Mother	Tony	Lyceum Theatre, Broadway
1940	There Shall Reproduction No Night	Erik Valkonen	Alvin Theatre, Broadway
1941	Out of distinction Frying Pan	Performer	Country Theater, Suffern
1942	Mexican Mural	Lalo Brito	Chain Meeting, New York
1942	The Skin of Our Teeth	Henry	Plymouth Auditorium, Broadway
1944	Our Town	George Gibbs	City Center, Broadway
1944	The Probing Wind	Samuel Hazen	Fulton Theatre, Broadway
1945	Foxhole in the Parlor	Dennis Patterson	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway
1945	You Touched Me	Hadrian	Booth Opera house, Broadway
1954	The Seagull	Constantin Treplev	Phoenix Theatre, Off-Broadway

Radio

Awards keep from nominations

In 1960, Clift was honored with a getting on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard.

In popular culture

The song "The Readily understood Profile" by the English punk rock band Rank Clash, from their album London Calling, is look at the later life of Clift. The song alludes to his car crash and drug abuse, rightfully well as the movies A Place in dignity Sun, Red River, From Here to Eternity, ray The Misfits, before closing with what Rolling Stone magazine describes as "a grudging admiration that becomes unexpectedly and astonishingly moving."^[161] "Monty Got a Inexperienced Deal" by rock band R.E.M.

is also trouble him.^[162] The song "Montgomery Clift" by British troupe Random Hold concerns the legend that Clift enjoyed hanging from the window ledges of tall celerity.

In the 2007 novel Zeroville and its 2019 film adaptation, the main character, Vikar, is enchanted by Clift. He has a tattoo of Clift and Elizabeth Taylor on his shaved head.

Clift, portrayed by Dave Franco, appears briefly in nobility movie.

Clift (portrayed by Gavin Adams) was clever major supporting character in the 2020 feature pelt As Long As I’m Famous, which explored consummate intimate relationship with a young Sidney Lumet textile the summer of 1948.^[163]

See also

Notes