A nostalgic journey to the past to relive the golden days of entertainment! It’s why Hollywood pursued him for more than a decade, trying to tempt him over to the movies with increasingly tantalising offers, until he finally relented. Films like A Place in the Sun and From Here to Eternity made Clift a rare performer enjoyed by audiences and critics alike, but when he passed away in 1966 aged just 45, the actor had long since become best known for his personal dramas, in particular a disfiguring 1956 car accident that undid his once near-saintly beauty and accelerated his spiral into ultimately fatal addiction. But why isn't he remembered like those burning out young and beautiful? Who Paints These Houses? Still, here on his centenary, the man is long gone, while the performances that remain are as powerful today as they were more than half a century ago. He worked with Taylor again in, ALL MATERIALS, CONTENTS, AND ARTICLES ARE THE COPYRIGHT OF DAVID LOBOSCO (unless otherwise stated). Watching Clift, you can absolutely understand James Dean's quote....saying his own style of acting was Monty Clift in one hand, Marlon Brando in the other...but my opinion is that he borrowed more from Clift...just watch " A Place In the Sun " and see if you don't agree. • Clift’s personal story is tragic; a story about a talent as promising as Monty Clift being ultimately shattered by that person’s own personal demons can’t be anything but. This all-new, more animated Clift reached his peak in The Misfitsand Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961, in which the actor gives portrayals of two irreparably damaged men so convincing that some assumed he wasn’t acting at all. There’s no great mystery as to why the private life of Montgomery Clift continues to be a primary source of fascination. Support tQ's work by becoming a subscriber and enjoy the benefits of bonus essays, podcasts and exclusively-commissioned new music. Nor were many of the parts that he played. He really was, and he really did. It could be because while Dean and Marilyn were preserved beautifully in Hollywood amber as a result of their own untimely tragedies, Clift suffered an uncomfortably protracted public decline before dying, or that while Brando and Kirk enjoyed towering careers of more than five decades, Clift’s addictions wouldn’t even allow him two. He was given beauty, talent and the opportunity to make the most of his talents, intelligence, people who loved him, all the social advantages of coming from a "good family", friends, success, critical appreciation, etc. A sensitive young rebel before James Dean and a 'Method' man before Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift has a complicated legacy. Pretty though Clift was in his heyday, his were never characters to emulate; often, they projected terrible loneliness and pain. Broadway star turned Hollywood heartthrob Montgomery Clift had a formidable career — and his fair share of secrets. James Dean was said to borrow from Clift and Brando....he obviously was all about Monty Clift more.... James Dean was an awful actor very wooden over the top. Despite increasing pressure from the police, Logan never spills, though look closely and you’ll see the conflict roiling within him in Clift’s minute, almost imperceptible facial expressions. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. Performance & security by Cloudflare, Please complete the security check to access. Simple theme. According to Arthur Miller, Clift thought Actors Studio teacher and Method pioneer Lee Strasberg a “charlatan”, while Clift himself always gave most credit for his naturalistic performing style to mentor and celebrated Broadway actor Alfred Lunt. Cinema audiences saw Clift for the first time the year he turned 28, in post-WWII drama The Search, which earned him his first of four Oscar nominations, and the western Red River, which was a huge box office success on release. Indeed, legend has long maintained that Clift, at this point so bombed on drugs and alcohol he could no longer remember lines, had been asked by Nuremberg director Stanley Kramer to just improvise his way through the scene, the result being not a performance but a recording of a washed-up actor having a very real meltdown. Your IP: 75.98.175.89 Though he was publicity-averse in his lifetime, Clift’s private life has been a source of ghoulish fascination in his death, with speculation over his sexuality (Clift was gay, or possibly bisexual), unusual upbringing (along with his siblings, Clift was educated by private tutors on family travels throughout Europe and America) and relationship with a mother allegedly obsessed with raising her children as if they were nobility. Read the choicest cuts from the Quietus archive: reviews, features and opinion, The Strange & Frightening World Of... Dennis Hopper RIP, The Kids Are Alt-Right? It is commonly believed that drug addiction was responsible for Clift's many health problems and his death. The autopsy report cited the cause of death as a heart attack brought on by "occlusive coronary artery disease". It’s definitive proof that Clift was, even here at the troubled end of his career, still totally capable of great professionalism, though what’s remarkable is that it even took this long to dispel the myth that Clift wasn’t faking, that the power he mustered in this scene couldn’t be just an act. Actually Clift looked better physically after the accident than before. Clift isn’t remembered today in the same way as some of his contemporaries, immortals like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando and Kirk Douglas. Cloudflare Ray ID: 5ec32c0d7e70fe06 Theme images by, Tonight's Movie: Spawn of the North (1938) - A Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review, Danny G's Sunday Serenade with Dino: "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams", A Hammer Duo: Twins of Evil and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, THE SUCCESS AND FAILURES OF PROJECT RECORDS, CMBA Politics on Film Blogathon - October 20 - 23. On paper at least, Montgomery Clift had everything: matinee idol good looks, natural acting talent bolstered by training from legends of the New York theatre, the education of an aristocrat.

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