One of my sister's favourite movie stars in the fifties was Montgomery Clift (or Monty Clift: 1920 - 1966). My sister (no. 11) and I saw a lot of his movies during the fifties; one of them was called "A Place In The Sun" where he starred with Liz Taylor. He was so beautiful looking then! Later in the sixties, he made 2 more movies with her called "Suddenly Last Summer" and "Raintree County", both wonderful films.But his looks had changed due to the accident he had when he s
mashed his car into a telephone pole. He needed extensive reconstructive surgery on his face (although his broken nose was never repaired) and he returned after several weeks to finish the film, "Raintree County". His previously handsome appearance now permanently disfigured and now they tried to film just his better looking side of his face. By this time, Clift had become hooked on alcohol and pain pills, and his health deteriorated. Taylor and Clift remained close friends until his death.I also caught a few of his old movies on TV sometime ago, notably "The Red River" with John Wayne and "The Heiress" with Olivia de Havilland. I really think he's a great actor in those movies. I could never forget the scene in "From Here to Eternity" when he played the trumpet with tears in his eyes after he learned of his buddy's death. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fxH-2LnRkc&feature=related
One of his fans has placed the whole film "The Heiress" on YouTube in 13 parts. Here they are:
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSmlpfVmYb8&feature=related
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0ia7GxRtpc&feature=related
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Im1BSUaoCQ&feature=related
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unVzfQItgbY&feature=related
5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCtnB1OkQE&feature=related
6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTChHQMPqKE&feature=related
7) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVybKeFQIQ&feature=related
8) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vIay2OBfgY&feature=related
9) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DLLsupOAEc&feature=related
10) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zGkQvkxbWQ&feature=related
11) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ezD6pYYpE&feature=related
12) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of2352SjxvA&feature=related
13) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvf943Ccsjo&feature=related
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What a tragic life he had.
ReplyDeleteWhen he was young, Marlon Brando and Montgomery were on a motor bike riding together one day. They were students of the same acting school.
A newspaper man said Hollywood would lose two most handsome men of the world if there was a motor bike accident.
I think if both of them died young in a motor bike accident, people may put them in the same grade of James Dean.
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