One of the new breed of rebellious Hollywood leading men that emerged in the late 1940's.

Contemplating the worst in George Stevens' A PLACE IN THE SUN. His portrayal of George Eastman in this film version of the Theodore Dreiser novel, An American Tragedy, earned him the second of the four Oscar nominations of his career. The film itself was nominated for nine Oscars and also starred Elizabeth Taylor and Anne Revere.

Memorable Quotations:

• "You American women are too emancipated." --as Giovanni Doria in INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE (1954).

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) with Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed and Frank Sinatra.

"In the Hole" with Frank Sinatra (courtesy Time Magazine Online). (For help opening the above file, visit the plug-ins page.)

Further Reading:

• Montgomery Clift by Maurice Leonard (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997).
• Montgomery Clift : a bio-bibliography by Mary C. Kalfatovic (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1994).
• Montgomery Clift : beautiful loser by Barney Hoskyns (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992).
• Monty : a biography of Montgomery Clift by Robert LaGuardia (New York: D.I. Fine, c1988).
• The films of Montgomery Clift by Judith M. Kass; foreword by Brooks Clift (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, c1979).
• Montgomery Clift : a biography by Patricia Bosworth (New York: Limelight Editions, 1978).
• Rebel males : Clift, Brando, and Dean by Graham McCann (New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1993).
• Five for Hollywood by John Parker (Secaucus, NJ : Carol Pub. Group, 1991).
• Too young to die by Patricia Fox-Sheinwold (Baltimore: Ottenheimer Publishers, 1979).

More Montgomery Clift Links:

• Montgomery Clift- superstar of the 1950s
• American Legends: Montgomery Clift
• CMGWW: The Estate of Montgomery Clift
• Fansites: Montgomery Clift
• TV Now's monthly Montgomery Clift schedule -when his films will be on TV
• Greatest Films: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
• Boxoffice Online: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
• A review of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by Walter Frith
• Philip's INDESCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE Page
• JGDB: JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG
• Greatest Films: THE MISFITS
• PBS: Making THE MISFITS
• Greatest Films: A PLACE IN THE SUN
• A review of RED RIVER by Roger Ebert
• A review of THE SEARCH by Edwin Jahiel
• Greatest Films: SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER

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