Montgomery Clift: A Biography
Jun 2012 · Open Road Media
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“The definitive work on the gifted, haunted actor” (Los Angeles Times) and “the best film star biography in years” (Newsweek). From the moment he leapt to stardom with the films Red River and A Place in the Sun, Montgomery Clift was acclaimed by critics and loved by fans. Elegant, moody, and strikingly handsome, he became one of the most definitive actors of the 1950s, the first of Hollywood’s “loner heroes,” a group that includes Marlon Brando and James Dean. In this affecting biography, Patricia Bosworth explores the complex inner life and desires of the renowned actor. She traces a poignant trajectory: Clift’s childhood was dominated by a controlling, class-obsessed mother who never left him alone. He developed passionate friendships with Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in spite of his closeted homosexuality. Then his face was destroyed after a traumatic car crash outside Taylor’s house. He continued to make films, but the loss of his beauty and subsequent addictions finally brought the curtain down on his career. Stunning and heartrending, Montgomery Clift is a remarkable tribute to one of Hollywood’s most gifted—and tormented—actors.
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4.2
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Deseree Garcia
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December 1, 2014
It captures Monty in his private life he barely talked of, of his private love life: into a new world of Monty himself. Creates an embodiment! You connect with Monty, in the end with his tragic death, you feel like you've been torn apart. Read this book if you're interested of one of the original method and rebel actors of the 1950s and how life took them away.
Glenn Taylor
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November 8, 2015
I'm gay and love him to bits. .
johnie speaks
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October 21, 2019
Poignant and heartrenching account of an incredible actor with a tortured soul.
About the author
Patricia Bosworth (1933–2020) was a bestselling journalist and biographer. She was a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a contributor to the New York Times and the Nation. She was also a Broadway actor for nearly a decade, and went on to run the Playwrights/Directors Unit at the Actors Studio. Bosworth taught nonfiction writing at Columbia University as senior fellow at the National Arts Journalism Program, and lectured at Barnard, Yale University, and the New School. Her books include Montgomery Clift (1978), Diane Arbus (1984), Marlon Brando (2000), and Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman (2011).
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