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Montgomery Clift

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Actor 1920–1966 On stage 1935–1945

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor. A four-time Academy Award nominee, he was known for his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men", according to The New York Times. 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 Dean, Clift was considered one of the original method actors in Hollywood (though Clift distanced himself from the term); he was one of the first actors to be invited to study in the Actors Studio with L…

On stage 8 productions, 10 years

1935 Fly Away Home 48th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Thomas Mitchell 204 perf.
1935 Jubilee Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short, Monty Woolley 169 perf.
1940 There Shall Be No Night Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Alfred Lunt 115 perf.
1942 The Skin of Our Teeth Plymouth Theatre · Original · directed by Elia Kazan 359 perf.
1944 Our Town City Center · Revival · directed by Wesley McKee 24 perf.
1944 The Searching Wind Fulton Theatre · Original 318 perf.
1945 Foxhole in the Parlor Booth Theatre · Original · directed by John Haggott 45 perf.
1945 You Touched Me Booth Theatre · Original 109 perf.

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In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Mary Boland, June Knight, Melville Cooper, Charles Walters, Derek Williams, Mark Plant, Montgomery Clift, May Boley, Margaret Adamsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cavett’s guest was Mary McCarthy (sister to actor Kevin, one of Montgomery Clift’s closest friends). Mary had met the six-years-older and much-more-successful Hellman only twice and had seldom reviewed her plays, which she considered dull, contrived, and unworthy of attention (partly out of jealousy?). Perhaps that was as well for Hellman…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
  • “I wish I knew what that means. Me, I just act.”—MONTGOMERY CLIFT , asked about the Method in 1959ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
  • “Montgomery Clift and Jerome Robbins had an affair. After, it became a friendship.… It was Monty who first suggested, when they did line readings together from Romeo and Juliet , that somebody should do a modern-day production of the play as a musical and use gangs instead of warring families. Robbins seized the idea, and later he claimed…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
  • Rumor : Montgomery Clift got his big break in the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) via sexual favoritism from playwright Thornton Wilder .ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
  • “A charlatan.”—MONTGOMERY CLIFT on acting coach Lee Strasberg, with whom he studied for a whileebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt

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