Montgomery Clift

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

48 Performances

Monty's Broadway play, Dame Nature, survived a healthy 48 performances on Broadway. Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Peripheral

Monty's father, Bill Clift, was considered a peripheral figure in the family. Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 28, 2013

Samuel Hazen

In the Broadway play, The Searching Wind, Monty played the crippled and embittered veteran Samuel Hazen. Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Jewish Characters

Monty played Jewish characters (in The Young Lions and Freud), because he admired their fortitude and heorism. This belief stemmed back to The Search. Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

"Juvenile of All Times"

Stanley Kramer, who directed Monty in Judgment at Nuremberg, said that in his early Broadway years, Monty was "the juvenile of all times." Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Last Stage Appearance

You Touch Me! was Monty's last stage appearance before Hollywood finally seduced him. Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Ugly Finger

Before Hollywood took him by storm, Monty once said, "Hollywood is waving its ugly finger at me". Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Chalk-and-Cheese

Monty' relationship with Paul Douglas, his co-star in The Big Lift, is described as "chalk-and-cheese". Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Beautiful Loser

Someone just gave me a copy of the Barney Hoskins' Monty bio, Beautiful Loser. Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Patti Page Dies

Patti Page, who sang "Autumn in Rome" and "Indiscretion" for Monty's Indiscretion of an American Wife, died January 1, 2013. She was 85. Sign in to see full entry.

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