Montgomery Clift

by LANCASTER DAVID

• ISBN13: 9781904573081
• ISBN10: 1904573088
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square

Summary

"Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) was one of the most innovative stars in the history of post-war Hollywood, an actor of stunning beauty and delicacy who inspired contemporaries like Marlon Brando and James Dean, and who was nominated four times for an Academy Award. A major part of his appeal resided in the fact that he was a different kind of star, one that represented vulnerability, rebellion and less orthodox ways of being a man. If anything, Clift's appeal deepened after his death as evidence emerged of his bisexuality; he had relationships with a number of men, and there were even rumours that he and Elizabeth Taylor had contemplated getting married. Turbulent and self-consuming, he was blighted by alcohol and drug addiction, and died, a relatively forgotten figure, a few months before his forty-sixth birthday."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

David Lancaster is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Institute of Communications at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

'God Bless the Sunday Matinee'	7	(5)
The Changeling's Son	12	(20)
The Vanishing Man	32	(13)
The Elusive Butterfly	45	(19)
The Wedding Before the Wooing	64	(26)
'I'm A Scream No One Can Hear'	90	(4)
Notes & Sources	94	(12)
Acknowledgements	106	(2)
Picture credits	108