Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery Clift is an American actor , born the October 17th 1920 with Omaha (Nebraska), dead the July 23rd 1966 with New York.

At the end of the Years 1940, Montgomery Clift imposes on the cinema an interpretation which modifies radically, and definitively, the image of the American hero. With the antipodes of monolithic virility, it reveals emotions, doubts, which disturb and justify its play; with him, the character becomes thinking, complex, moderate and vulnerable. For this reason, in Red To rivet (1948), the confrontation with John Wayne (obviously disconcerted) is completely emblematic.

Marlon Brando and James Dean, which are inspired some, add to the vulnerability the famous rebellious key. If Brando will be defended to be influenced, but simply intrigued, Dean will assert it while signing: Jimmy Clift Dean.

Thereafter, Montgomery Clift will be for a whole generation of actors (resulting for the majority from Actors' Studio, like Robert de Niro or Al Pacino) a reference, a model just and solved (its currency could have been: Absolutly not! ). To its last film, it will be never caricatural. Nor moreover an idol for tee-shirts.

Montgomery Clift maintained, since the beginning of the Années 1950 until its death, a kind of “friendship in love” with Elizabeth Taylor, friendship which, because of the homosexuality of the actor, was never concretized charnellement.

Catalog of films

Theater

In 1954, it adapts and plays the Gull of Tchekhov.

Radiophonic part

1964 - The Menagerie of Glass, part of Tennessee Williams with Jessica Tandy, Julie Harris and David Wayne

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