Montgomery Clift
Biography
Edward Montgomery Clift was born on October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska. Monty was born just after his twin sister Roberta and eighteen months…moreBorn
10/17/1920, Omaha, NebraskaDied
7/23/1966Birth Name
Edward Montgomery CliftGender
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Himself
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S 2:
Ep 45
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star.
10/8/99
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S 2:
Ep 45
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star.
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The Merv Griffin Show
Himself
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S 1:
Ep 86
February 4, 1963
2/4/63
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S 1:
Ep 86
February 4, 1963
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What's My Line?
Mystery Guest
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S 14:
Ep 21
EPISODE #648
1/20/63
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S 14:
Ep 21
EPISODE #648
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Here's Hollywood
Himself
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Ep 8
January 24, 1962
1/24/62
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S 2:
Ep 8
January 24, 1962
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Toast of the Town
Himself, cameo
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S 7:
Ep 27
1954 Saint Patrick's Day Show
3/14/54
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S 7:
Ep 27
1954 Saint Patrick's Day Show
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Montgomery: (on Noah, the part he played in The Young Lions) Noah was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.
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Whenever Montgomery played a role of a person who had to go up against an ignorant, brutal or violent person (as in the movie From here to Eternity) he would act with his father in mind as the antagonist, as his father was a violent and abusive person whom Montgomery did not get along with.
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Montgomery was Elizabeth Taylor's choice to play her husband, the closeted homosexual Major Weldon Penderton, in the movie Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967). However, due to Montgomery's untimely death he was replaced by Marlon Brando.
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Montgomery: The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
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Montgomery: (comment made while filming The Misfits) I wish I were more thin-skinned. The problem is to remain sensitive to all kinds of things without letting them pull you down. Now, take this - the fact that someone drops a book of matches at a time when he most wants not to seem ill at ease. To a normal person that is not a terribly moving talent, but to an actor in films, such a thing maybe perhaps changes the whole relationship to the girl that dropped the matches. The only line I know of that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'Holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold the magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with a situation. If it were a mirror we would have no art. Essence is a wonderful word. Miller has written the essence of Roslyn. You'd be bored to death if it were a mirror. Take the line in the script, 'Who did this to me? The ambulance did it.' Magnifying the essential things that liberate the imagination and enable one to identify - when one has those qualities, they are fabulous gifts. Take a pause, for example. That I call a magnification. I wouldn't call it a mirror. The magnifying glass has been misused totally, but in this picture it has been put to the use of capturing what possibly is flitting in and out of someone's mind and one person's relationship to another and another, and that's what's fascinating.
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Montgomery: One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game.
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