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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 🎭🎭🎭
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”,)
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. 😊
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.
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.
1:01 Montgomery Clift was a gorgeous guy! He was down to earth & he had features that were perfect. Monty, getting into that accident, really did him in! Very sad! He was nominated 4 times for an ACADEMY AWARD & I think he deserved to WIN ALL 4. Every movie he was in, he made other actors acting better‼️He DEFINITELY was a true trailblazer & ahead of his time. RIP Montgomery Clift🤴♥️🎭🎬⭐️🔥🌟👑✨️☄️🌠💔🙏
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.
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.
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
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,.
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.
Red River had a pathetic ending. Wayne thought the fight was ridiculous with Cliff being such a whimp & Cliff thought the ending was a weak anti climax.
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.
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.
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.
Thankyou sooo much!! Wonderfully Reavling Documentary on a Beautiful Actor/ Person with a Darkness not truly ever exactly known......Loved him RIP Monty ❣👏👍✌🏼
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.
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‼️🫅💔♥️🤴💔♥️🫅💔♥️
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.
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. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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‼️🫅♥️
Very versatile actor of late fortys n fifties,died at very young age otherwise would have been greatest among all actors.Red River,I confess,From Here to Eternity,The Heiress n A place in the Sun speak itself his depth of acting n performance.
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!
“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.
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. 💜💛
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.
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
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.
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?
*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.*
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.
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 ?
He was So Amazing !!! The class & style He was raised in. Gave Him So much culture 🤧. That none of us could understand 😔. I feel it's such a tragedy, to have lost Him, as we did. His personality, was So unique. His intelligence, wouldn't allow him to be himself. Alcoholism, & Drug addiction. Has taken way too many of the gifted !!!
TRAGIC.....I always adored his films.....but never realized how deeply disturbed he was. The alcohol and drugs only fueled the depression and angst. We lost a beautiful person...
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.
I feel the same way. Montgomery was gone, too soon.🙏💔RIP MONTY🙏💔🙏💔🙏
A lovely man not to forgotten loved by woman and men alike
But alcohol ruined
His life.
Be warned
Bob Redig 93 years
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👸🙏♥️⭐️🔥💔🫅🙏♥️🔥⭐️💔
Yes I agree, you find that so called friends are only there for the good times, I think that's just exacerbates their drug use
99.9% of people only want to take
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.
Elizabeth was so kind to him..As you should be as a friend should be
She can’t Betty Davis my Friend,but she’s a close 2nd
Ms. Patricia Bosewell. Your biography of Monty is a masterpiece. Many thanks for keeping him alive.
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I think he was the first Elvis ❤❤❤❤😢😢😢
Bosworth
I agree with you on that regarding Patricia Bosworth!
@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‼️
The best documentary on Clift. Perfect that it was made while those who knew him best still had their experiences fresh in the hair minds. Very sad
Far superior to Making Montgomery Clift, which is more about his nephew than Monty.
@@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.
His brother's voice is so much like Monty's! It's like closing your eyes and hearing Monty's voice. Heartbreaking. ❤
That's exactly what I thought.
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.
@@GarlandBrooks It's just that he's half-drunk.
@@ric9499 no,he had a stroke earlier in his life.
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.
Raintree County for me. ( :
Monty Cliftgomery is very handsome; father said Monty is the best. Immediately memorized.
Shelly Winters was amazing in "A Place in the Sun" too.
I have "The Glass Menagerie" on cassette. I love him as Tom.
Monty's performance in "Judgement at Nuremberg" remains with me from seeing it as a boy. Astonishingly great.
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.
For me, that short performance by Clift was the best performance I have ever experienced. Beyond brilliant!
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
Tragedy and it’s pain can be difficult to bear, I make it to another day. Miss my late husband love our children and💕👮🏻♂️☕️🌼Grandchildren!!!
He cut it short nobody else
yes he didn't have friends growing up & overly domineering mother
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.
I think each one of them, Clift, Brando & Dean were all greats. They were all method actors but each had their very own acting styles!
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
Excellent documentary. This film gives such a clearer insight into Montgomery's life. Very beautiful yet sad.
The best documentary on Clift. Thank you so much.
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 🎭🎭🎭
Yes, a commendably compelling movie...
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”,)
There are no actors like in those days. I grew up in the 70s watching these old movies with my parents.
Wow,! What a man he was. So very complex but extraordinarily wonderful, elusive & talented... Love ❤️ U, Monty
An amazing actor. Truly one of the greatest.
Definitely‼️🤴♥️🔥🌟✨️💔🙏💔🙏💔
A must-see documentary on Monty Clift. I got to understand him much better after watching this. Thanks for sharing.
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. 😊
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.
He was handsome for the men too, you know.
That’s a beautiful write up & sentiment.
"Handsome for ladies and role model for men".....it's 2024 and u still use this outdated backhanded compliments that too far a gay man.... ridiculous
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.
1:01 Montgomery Clift was a gorgeous guy! He was down to earth & he had features that were perfect. Monty, getting into that accident, really did him in! Very sad! He was nominated 4 times for an ACADEMY AWARD & I think he deserved to WIN ALL 4. Every movie he was in, he made other actors acting better‼️He DEFINITELY was a true trailblazer & ahead of his time. RIP Montgomery Clift🤴♥️🎭🎬⭐️🔥🌟👑✨️☄️🌠💔🙏
such a great documentary and so many riveting interviews. montgomery clift will never not be fascinating. everything he went through and suffered.
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.
You are not born gay but vulnerable to your upbringing and definitely the environment influences your personality
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.
Monty Clift : a legend! Loved him in The Search and From Here to Eternity!
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.
Clift, Brando & Dean were Hollywood GREATS! EACH was Great in His Own Way.
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.
It certainly was.
What a fascinating documentary! I'm glad I watched it!!!
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
A wounded soul...they're everywhere! You just have to look! A fine actor and very handsome indeed.
Always loved MC. 😍
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,.
A must see for Clift fans. Thanx for posting.
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.
Those were not the things that took his life, according to the medical examiner. He had other physical things...look into it!
Red River had a pathetic ending. Wayne thought the fight was ridiculous with Cliff being such a whimp & Cliff thought the ending was a weak anti climax.
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.
I am reliving the golden years of movies and stars of long ago and Montgomery Clift is one of them totally mesmerising.
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.
It's very hard to help someone - an adult substance abuser - who does not want to be helped.
As a fan, this was an amazingly touching and tragic story.
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.
I'm so sorry to hear Patricia Bosworth has died, she was an excellent writer - her bio of Monty Clift is excellent
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.
I miss her too.
Thankyou sooo much!! Wonderfully Reavling Documentary on a Beautiful Actor/ Person with a Darkness not truly ever exactly known......Loved him RIP Monty ❣👏👍✌🏼
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.
Elizabeth Taylor was a great gal and a true friend to Monty. She never stopped loving and supporting him.
God bless them both
Everybody loves you, Monty.
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‼️🫅💔♥️🤴💔♥️🫅💔♥️
Monument Mythos
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.
I'm a readaholic and love biographies. I definitely will read3 it,
Thank you
Yes, what a wonderful and sensitively written book, giving insights not just into Monty but into the larger picture of being alive and sensitive.
Thank you.
Thankyou, Montgomery Clift. You are a hero. We love you mate.
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. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
What a great comment and I couldn’t agree more. 🌸♥️🏳️🌈
Dean wasn't gay
The voice of his brother sounds almost exactly like Montgomery Clift's voice in Judgment at Nuremberg.
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 🤔🎭📽🎬😒🙏🏾
Great documentary but my God it's a tough watch it's just so sad.
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.
And his voice!
He was ....is still one of my favorites
His brother seems as lovely as he was.
You are spot on. I thought the same
He speaks very slowly and measured. I think he sounds as if he may also be depressive. (mean no insult. just an observation)
I have this on VHS. This just breaks my heart.
I did not know all of this. Thank you for this story.
Brooks Clift has the same voice as Monty.
Yes. I heard that immediately! Love culture and genetics.
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.
Shirley Thompson qA
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.
@@lindasturm699 Clift. His surname was Clift.
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 !
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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.
Thank you very much for your documentary
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 so because he was a piss poor driver it's her fault? 🤦
@@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.
Attractive, talented and powerfully disturbed 💔
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.
Well made and insightful. Very moving.
Brilliant documentary on a brilliant actor.
Truly touching and a great documentary.
*”Traveling is a hobgoblin experience for children. Why weren’t roots established? My brother has been married 3 times now.”* - Montgomery Clift.
His brother is so much like him..even in the way he talks
RIP Monty! We had the best of times ...
Rest in peace Patricia Bosworth.
A beautiful woman.
handsome actor
great actor
Legends never dies
This is wonderful - very intelligent and personal.
One word "Enablers " with friends like that who needs enemies?
It was all fun and games until addiction takes hold
Cliff was A golden star**
What A man he became
With A smile**
"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.
You have a point.
Bosworth is annoying. Jean Levy and Kevin McCarthy are real and had the closest associations with him.
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.
@@tallulahdahling5592 Jean knew I mean her talking about New Orleans and the trip to La Paz kinda confirms that she knew.
@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.
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‼️🫅♥️
Amazing video!! Thanks so much for sharing 🤗
He and his brother were so handsome. It's a shame those days are gone forever, like them.
Very impressive documentary. I cry
I like Brooks. He seems gentle and kind
Happy 100th birthday montgomery cilft
He's young and beautiful now on the other side making movies with Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe. The soul never dies. ♥️
@@rubencohen2936 So these So-Called souls play & record "Make Believe" for currency & fame in this heaven of yours?
Very versatile actor of late fortys n fifties,died at very young age otherwise would have been greatest among all actors.Red River,I confess,From Here to Eternity,The Heiress n A place in the Sun speak itself his depth of acting n performance.
One of the finest actors ever. His performance in "A Place in the Sun" is worthy of praise.
Don't forget Raintree County, Suddenly Last Summer and From Here3 to Eternity,plus The Misfits.
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 love monty clift so so so so much it makes me cry❤❤❤❤❤❤ i love him so much
“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.
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.
# "What could possibly have happened?" ...he grew up and saw humanity for what it really is...
Ridiculous
wow, elizabeth taylor was such a fine woman and friend
Nope.
@@kellybetts2690
Why do you say no she wasn't explain yourself explain what you're trying to say without saying anything but nope
A friend wouldn't steal a good friend's husband. Hence, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.
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. 💜💛
@@grayced3761 She was a great friend to Monty. No one is claiming she was a perfect person. None of us are. Get over yourself
Excellent documentary.
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.
She was definitely a fool.
To be fair - beauty can do quite a lot for people
@Allegra Wallace You’re no different than the average person in the 50s speaking poorly on the celebs during that period. How original
One of the best ever
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
Apparently, he didn't know the Lord,
and without Jesus, your life doesn't
have real meaning, he lived a tragic
life
Brother sounds like Monty in Judgment at Nuremburg.
Yes!!
At the age of 20 he was referred as "the oldest person in the room."
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.
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?
Sadly quite young 2 died at the aged of 45.....
BORN: 17 OCTOBER 1920
RIP :23 JULY 1966
Buried at QUAKERS CEMENTARY;NEW YORK park hidden area...
*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.*
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.
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 ?
He was So Amazing !!! The class & style He was raised in. Gave Him So much culture 🤧. That none of us could understand 😔. I feel it's such a tragedy, to have lost Him, as we did. His personality, was So unique. His intelligence, wouldn't allow him to be himself. Alcoholism, & Drug addiction. Has taken way too many of the gifted !!!
when i look at him my heart is on fire❤❣
TRAGIC.....I always adored his films.....but never realized how deeply disturbed he was. The alcohol and drugs only fueled the depression and angst. We lost a beautiful person...
his Brother Is SOOO Beautiful
His brothers voice is exactly like Monty's
Brothers appearance much like monte