What's sad is that the people he loved the most, the ones who were there with him for the good times, abandoned him in the end. In their own words they said he had changed, he needed help, so they couldn't be there for him anymore. What a sad and lonely story about a beautiful man. I'm so thankful he had a friend in Elizabeth.
Montgomery Clift & Elizabeth Taylor were the most gorgeous couple, even though it wasn't romantic. They looked like matching book ends together. RIP LIZ & MONTY👸🙏♥️⭐️🔥💔🫅🙏♥️🔥⭐️💔
Elizabeth Taylor was not only beautiful to look at but had a kind nurturing heart that she gave to anyone in need. She did not like Richard Burton when she first met him. She thought he was egotistical and full of himself. The morning she was to do a scene with him in Cleopatra he was hungover from the night before and reaching for a coffee his hand started to shake. She reached out to steady his uncontrollable shaking hand. And the rest is history. She loved flawed men and always stood up for anyone who she felt was an underdog. It didn't matter to her what your sexual orientation was. Very rare to find inner beauty that goes with fabulous eyes that you can't look away from. She was that rare specimen that was not only a wonderful actress but a truly wonderful human being. Elizabeth was a woman of substance and we shall never see the likes of her again.monty was lucky to have her in his life. Non judgemental was her mantra.
@user-gt6vm4sg8y I think he had it all over Elvis! I would say more of a Marlon Brando & James Dean. Monty was such a tortured soul & one would never think a person with his gorgeous looks & marvelous talent would be. Arthur Penn (a director) said he wouldn't want to be a movie star for anything & I have to say, I definitely agree. The press is relentless & is the cause of so much grief to the actors & actresses‼️
@@bbrown333 I thought it was a breath of fresh air. Monty is always portrayed as such a sad person. The nephews documentary gave a different perspective
@@tatum2739 It was pollyanna. I went to the premiere at the LA film festival and donated to the gofundme for the making of the film. Believe I WANTED to like it. I did appreciate the insights about Monty's intelligence, but the elision of his twin, the focus on his private parts, the ruthless misreading and attack on Patricia Bosworth...it was really misguided to me.
Yes! The rhythm of his delivery--those pregnant pauses are hauntingly familiar as if Monty himself were speaking! Such a lovely person he was. Talented. I remember wishing he and Elizabeth were perfect partners for marriage. They loved each other so very much. There was only one Montgomery Cliff. Loved him in The Heiress. Gone too soon.
Without question! He and Ms. Garland both should've won Oscar's! His great friend Ms. Nancy Walker & a friend went to see it but , after seeing the first scene, she said ' let's go, nobody's going to beat that'! But of course they looked at supporting Oscar's differently in those days, & if you were a ' star' you didn't lower yourself by competing with bit & supporting players
Monty was actually offered the role of the prosecutor in that movie & instead chose the small part of the victim who was testifying on the stand. I think it was because he didn't like his looks after that awful accident. He was still a very handsome guy.
Excellent documentary about a tortured man, who’s life was cut short from drugs and alcohol. I believe there was much more in his childhood that made him who he was, his scars were so deep. RIP
After these decades, I still get sad thinking about Monty. He could play soft or hard, tough or gentle. I was a kid at the time when I saw "A Place in the Sun" and he was the first actor I ever fell in love with and I miss him so.
Anyone who feels not loved by another human might have severely difficult emotions and actions.Mother Teresa would be one exception. Compassion from the Trinity is comforting.Sad real story.
I am a cinema historian and was i obsessed with Brando, i discovered Monty clift after watching Red River, then i watched all his films, without him Marlon Brando wouldn’t have made it, Clift started his career 3 years before brando and Clift was the first method actor who had success. Life isn’t fair but brando was lucky that Clift had his accident in 1956, Brando took many sensitive roles after ‘On the waterfront’, like: Sayonara, The Young lions (Starring along with Montgomery clift, in their only film together), mutiny on the bounty (many criticized his sensitive approach to the character). in fact, the reason why brando’s performance in ‘waterfront’ was sensitive was thanks to the influence of Montgomery clift, Brando was getting involved in too many brute and macho characters. Brando improvised many brute and violent scenes into more sensitive ones (most prominently the contender scene), all thanks to Clift. Monty Clift was not just handsome for the ladies but a role model for the men, he inspired me to be a better man.
Remembering the greatest actor of his generation. The most romantic and the most gifted. He died 56 years ago today and have never never been forgotten. HIs films influence a generation and still continue to do so. Film retrospects are done all the time. Film Forum in New York just had one on him. Oh to see him in Red River, my favorite western. In A Place In The Sun. He and Elizabeth Taylor are so beautiful together. Wild River, From Here To Enternity, Freud which I had not seen in a long time. Raintree Country, a very underrated film. The Young Lions, where he out acted Brando. Monty you were good! Before Brando and Dean, there was Montgomery Clift the best of them all.
Elizabeth Taylor was Monty’s best friend. When he had his accident she ran to the wreck & he was choking on his teeth, she got in the car, pulled out the teeth & he could breath again, saved his life. A new book Is coming out about their friendship.📚 When Elizabeth was given a Humanitarian Award by SAG, she said her 3 best friends were Gay: Monty, Jimmy (Dean) & Rock. Elizabeth was a Good Friend to Underdogs. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Montgomery Clift was an actor with depth and soul. His portrayals in the films he made left an imprint of his amazing craft full of emotion and amazement. c”,)
Beautiful movie about a beautiful soul. What a terrible tragedy. My heart weeps even after so many decades have passed and even though I was barely 5 years old when he passed away. Excellent documentary of his life - thank you so much for uploading
Edward Montgomery Clift is one of my favorite classic actors to watch on screen. He was very handsome and a natural huge talent. It's wonderful that Larry looked after him during his last days. That's a great friend. 😊
Wonderful documentary. He was such a great actor. Yesterday I saw again "Suddenly, the Last Summer". So sad He died so young. Thanks so much for uploading this documentary 🎭🎭🎭
Looking at these pictures of Monte before his accident, I can see a BEAUTIFUL young man smiling and laughing, and pain free. After his accident, you never see him smile again. He always seemed to have to think before he responded to others inwhatever vehicle he was playing in. And being in chronic pain was not well understood then, so he fell into alcohol and drugs for self medication. That combination compounded his problems by causing depression and mood problems. Truly a tortured soul,.
He was complicated and multi-faceted yet, he was very serious about the only craft he knew: acting. His crisis about his sexuality was drawn from his upbringing. He knew he was born gay. His mother knew. During his time, to be gay or bisexual was a curse and his homophobic mother didn't help. His friends didn't help. He was just this guy who was loving life and people couldn't relate with him. To them he was this mysterious being. He was born at the wrong time because he was ahead of his time.
Monty, at his early age, built facades to deal with various kinds of people. Only him and his mother knew the kinds of people he met when he was a boy. When he became famous, all hell broke loose because he was caught between his identity crisis and split personalities and everything became magnified. That's why even his closest friends couldn't understand him. However, these complexities helped him a lot in his acting career and subsequently made him a great actor. If he had lived today, he could have managed a lot better.
His mother and father treated him really badly over his sexuality, even his acting mentor Alfred Lunt berated him for being gay and tried to get him to marry. Doesn't look like he had much support in his life. Elizabeth Taylor was one of the only people who seemed to truly accept him for who he really was.
@@brihmendiola4347 His substance abuse could indicate abuse as a young child. As you said who knew who they came across when she separated them from their father to live out her fantasies. He was a beautiful boy, any variety of weirdos could have been drawn to him in Europe.
@@brihmendiola4347 My English teacher would have had a field day sorting through your run-on sentences and misplaced modifiers. Were your command of the English language better, your comments would have been more meaningful.
A beautiful man, who as his brother Brooks spoke has never died. Also, kudos and gratitudes to his late biographer, the lovely and erudite Miss Patricia Bosworth.
Was so shocking the way his life ended up. He was so tormented in his personal life by himself. He was a very good actor and unique in his own way, that set him apart.
I've looked at photos of him many, many times, and I still swoon every time! One of the most compelling actors ever. Wonder if modern psychiatric drugs would have helped him not medicate his own moods.
He had intractable, chronic pain from the car crash that dogged his existence for the rest of his life. I have it also, & it makes his post-crash performances all the more amazing. I always wondered why he didn't want to watch The Misfits on tv the night he died. It is such an underrated film, & one of his best performances, also one of the 1st films, through Marilyn Monroe's character, to address environmentalism & cruelty towards animals. It was a true 'sixties' film, & Clift freeing the mustangs at the end was both moving & prophetic.
MONROE CLIFT AND TAYLOR ARE THREE of America's best actors. soft spoken major empathy for their roles. Joanne Woodward and Geraldine Page (esp. Shakespeare) were fantastic actors. You might not be aware of actors like Page but Hollywood does not look for amazing acting ability --- they want to know what you LOOK like. mostly. Fine acting captivates my mind. Page was also a painter or sculptor like Laurel Holloman and so many actors that impress you with their mobile faces and voices -- the naturals.
Whiny friends who didn’t seem to help him much. I’ve read Bosworth’s book, it’s worth a read. This film doesn’t seem balanced now on a rewatching. And he did so many good/great films, they basically didn’t mention them, ugh.
A place in the sun is one of my top 5 favourite movies… I’m only 50 here in 2022 but the past couple of years we have started to watch the oldies from the 20s-60s and you can really find some incredible, funny, gentle, thoughtful movies from these decades. I have always been an 80s John Hughes movie buff but I wish more my age would go back and check out the golden age of theatre. I just watched Monty on what’s my line tonight .. that’s another great show
There will NEVER be the trifecta of the greatest actors who each had their VERY OWN STYLE of the METHOD. Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando & James Dean, they CAN NEVER be DUPLICTED‼️🫅💔♥️🤴💔♥️🫅💔♥️
His mother was an aristocrat because her real father was a colonel in the army and her grandfather had been Abraham Lincoln's secretary? Hmm, American's need to educate themselves on what an aristocrat is.
It's really sad that so many wonderful gifted people end up with such sadness and pain in their lives. Actors, musician's, artists so many end up hook on alcohol and drugs and no one is able to help them. So sad. I just watch Red River and he was wonderful in that film, and he was certainly a very handsome man. Even though he's been gone nearly 54 years, I feel bad for him. I hope he has found the peace in heaven, he couldn't find here on earth.
Very illuminating, sad, but also he was a true original, and it was those complexities about him that made him so watchable. Brooks, his brother, sounds exactly like him, it's astonishing. Patti Bosworth did an exceptional job of describing him here and her biography. I miss Patti who just passed last year.
Brooks himself was very disappointed and upset it seemed, with Patricia about her biography. Watch Making Montgomery Clift. He taped his calls with Patricia about the book. Which he helped her with.
If you love Monty and you want to know more about his life, I truly recommend reading ‘Montgomery Clift’ by Patricia Bosworth. It gives a deep insight into Monty’s life, particularly his childhood.
Thankyou sooo much!! Wonderfully Reavling Documentary on a Beautiful Actor/ Person with a Darkness not truly ever exactly known......Loved him RIP Monty ❣👏👍✌🏼
*This is in memory of Ivan Jandl (1937-1987), the young boy who was at the center of "The Search," Montgomery Clift's first movie. Jandl was one of the youngest recipients of an Academy Award--but was not allowed to go to America to collect it. After the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, he was persecuted to a certain degree for having taken part in an American movie.*
The documentary was very informative, important, & interesting about Montgomery Cliff's life & career. Even though he was down right extremely handsome during his heyday, but to me despite his automobile accident scars in 1956; he still had that beauty afterwards in which he claimed he didn't have anymore. It's sad when you see all your flaws through darkness that it shades out the beauty that shines within you from the outside that others can see; that is what depression can do for you in the long run for your life until death if proper help is not administer in time to make a difference for the better. RIP Montgomery Cliff 🤔🎭📽🎬😒🙏🏾
Monty's brother Brooks seems a very deep person, somehow afflicted (perhaps from a stroke?) in speech - which only adds to the power of his thoughts and memories. He also has his brother's soulful eyes.
Amazing movie. Finally, I saw a film about a human being, with his feelings, problems. People who knew him they didn't talk about a movie star, but a person. Now they don't make documentary like this and don't convey the atmosphere about people we can't see alive, but we want to understand what they were like and how they lived.
Thank you for uploading this documentary, it's very good, regardless whether you love Monty or not that much of a fаn, it's just a good documentary, very authentic, thanks again!
As a man to carry the sins of the whole world on his shoulders he wasn´t as "tough" as Maximilian Schell, although Schell was excutet by Klaus Kinski as a traitor. We better ask William Shatner, who knew them both.
Montgomery Clift was described as having some kind of strange, unwarranted sadness about himself. He told his friend Elizabeth Taylor that he was also sexually attracted to men. Among the public, this was not supposed to exist among leading, masculine men in Hollywood.
Wonderful actor. Etremely good looking. All the charm anyone can ever hope for. And then he lost it all and lived his life in complete misery. "The longest sucide in Hollywood history". So sad. So unbelievably sad.
I completely agree. I wonder, the quote you gave in your comment, was it said in this documentary, and I just missed it somehow? I liked it. It was right on!
I cannot see where he was so disfigured after the awful auto accident. I have no real way to tell which pictures were before and which after the accident. He looked as handsome as ever to me. The strange part of all this Is that I did not remember him from any movies in the 50’s when I would have seen how handsome he was and what a great actor he was. The only movie I ever saw him in was Raintree County and no real lasting memories of his performance. Of course I saw it at a drive inn that night, in the rain with us starting the car to use the windshield wipers throughout. That may have interfered with my concentration that night. In things I have seen since, I’m sure I would have been oh so smitten with this handsome talented man.
Two of my favorite films that Montgomery Cliff was in before his accident were "A Place In The Sun" with Elizabeth Taylor and "The Heiress" with Olivia de Havilland. He was still handsome after the accident but he just looked older.
Is a difference between the pictures and movies after accident...in pictures even looked aged seems still handsome but in movies even is not desfigurated his charm is gone !
@@lindasturm699 That was because of the nerve damage around his mouth. He lost the contour of his cheekbones. His face looked more filled out. And this is what made him look older. As the tissue in peoples faces usually becomes more puffy with age. That was the difference.
His mother was a whole fool. This is what happens when people raise their children believing that they are owed something that was never meant to be theirs in the first place, and also what happens when people believe that beauty can get them everything forgetting that beauty fades, generations pass and "acting" is neither medicine nor rocket science... It's just acting. To many people think they are more special than others when they are simply just another human being.
"He began to drink heavily" This line appears time and again in Bosworths biography when she couldn't think of anything deeper or more interesting to observe.
I doubt that. Kevin and Jean didn't even know he was gay, and they saw less of him and eventually severed ties once his drinking and drug problems became too much for them to handle. It was Elizabeth Taylor who was one of his closest friends.
@Ilyas Md. Amin, I guess she did know but she seemed to be in denial about it as did a few of his other friends. Kevin maintained he never knew until he was confronted by a Hollywood exec who had advised him to get rid of Monty because rumours had spread around town that they were shacking up together. Kevin said he was shocked when he heard about it.
Montgomery Clift could do or be anyone, his acting was simply amazing and his ultimate demise was what i think was what kept him from being Idolized along the likes of James Dean who was talented in a manner like monty in my opinion. Why are so many geniuses flawed so much? This doc is hard to watch, seeing such a giant of acting slowly self-destruct. Sad.
Debbie Reynolds herself said the marriage wasn’t strong and probably end in divorce. In later years She & Liz used to talk. About what a pain Eddie was & became friends. 💜💛
“Wild River” was my favorite film of Monty’s. His movement was very limited by then. It is fascinating to watch his necessarily minimalistic acting style.
My father was 5' 11 160 pounds and the absolute spitting image of Montgomery Clift. Ten years apart in age but same hair, same chiseled features. In the 1960s people would come up to him and make quite the fuss. They would insist on an autograph. Guess who I think of every time I see Montgomery Clift in a movie lol ?
Kevin McCarthy starting here at 48:00 talks about the May 12, 1956 car accident that he personally witnessed and which changed Monty Clift's life forever.
I remember hearing the story on E! Mysteries And Scandals about how Elizabeth Taylor picked his teeth out of his windpipe so that he could breathe. After the accident, he felt like a freak, and sometimes he would act like one. There was a story about a steak dinner, at which he felt that he was being stared at and talked about, so he put on some kind of freak show with his dinner underneath his table. He felt as if he had to "act the part" for the patrons who were bothering him.
It really put the finishing touches on an a substance abuse issue started much earlier. I believe his unhappiness started in childhood. He was lovely. He deserved to be happy.
@@judacia She pressured him to go to her stupid party when he refused and wanted to rest. He had dismissed his driver and ended up driving there himself after she harassed him into giving in so she would shut up. I blame her for that accident , she is a selfish pain in the ass. I don't care what she did for him after, she guilted him into driving up and back down that canyon.
@@kellybetts2690 He was drunk. He was also a capable adult of making his own decisions. Monty loved Liz from the moment he met her and until the very end. Just as she loved him.
Clift, Brando & Dean are iconic on Steroids & will never be replaced or duplicated. RIP Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando & James Dean🫅🙏💕🤴🙏💕🫅🙏💕. Montgomery Clift was truly a very special guy in every sense of the word. A Prince is the best to descibe him‼️🫅♥️
His brother's voice is so very much like Montgomery's and even some of his mannerisms. I am left at a loss to understand the relationship that he had with his siblings as an adult. Were they close? Were they estranged?
What's interesting is that Brooks Clift, disagreed with LaGuardia's book was was full of lies and assumptions. Brooks wanted Patricia's book to be the one and only bio of his brother, which is why he worked closely with her on it. In the she end, she screwed him over sadly. What people will do for money is sad. I never trusted her book nor LaGuardia's. Robert Clift, Monty's nephew, directed a amazing Monty bio which covers all that in "Making Montogomery Clift". It's on Amazon and he even interviewed Patty's before she passed. Great documentary, highly recommended.
I want to know who molested Montgomery Clift? Who hurt him and expose them. He didn't have to carry so much pain & shame. It wasn't his fault and he didn't deserve it.
So misunderstood..... He had hypoparathyroidism. A devastating condition due to a surgery when he was young. It explains alot. So sad people didn't understand this tortured man.
Well ... If you're not living on the edge, then you are taking up too much room ! These '' Great '' performance Artists really seem to flourish for a time, at the right time and then seem to wilt, wither, and die ... of a type of exhaustion in spirit , and mind the rest of us cannot understand. Perhaps, we exact too high a price ... and they know only how to give without taking back ? CR
Just like James Dean and Rock Hudson. Too bad they lived in a time period where their sexuality was not accepted. It's different today and Hollywood has come a long way. 🏳️🌈 🌞
@@rubencohen2936 in some ways, Hollywood has improved; however, many actors who are gay, Still try to keep it under wraps, afraid their career will hit the skids.
