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Director Larry Moss is collaborating on the project. "We're looking for the right actor to play Monty," Moss told the trade. He expects to workshop the bioplay in Along with Marlon Brando and James Dean, Clift is regarded at the epitome of the moody Method approach to acting that took film by storm in the late '40s early '50s. With dark hair and dark eyes, he possessed a hesitant delivery and fragile handsomeness. He was respected for bringing an intensity and vulnerability to his portrayals.
After a stage career (including roles in the original productions of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, Lillian Hellman's The Searching Wind and There Shall Be No Night opposite the Lunts), he made his screen debut in with "The Search" and "Red River," earning an Oscar nomination for the first film. Then came "The Heiress" in and, perhaps his best known credit, 's "A Place in the Sun"—an adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy"—opposite Elizabeth Taylor. "From Here to
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Montgomery Clift: A Biography
I spent half of this book wanting to cry. For the sheer pain and loss of it, of watching this car crash happen for ten years and even for years before then, of yearning for him to make good, for him to be the hero you always sensed in the movies that he wanted to be even if the movie journeys ended in tragedy themselves.
It's such an accomplishment of a book, how it manages to work so much detail and so much intimacy into a perfectly organic narrative without any sense of enforced structure or laboured pace. I'm used to reading Donald Spoto's meticulously footnoted and referenced biographies. I've read a lot of biographies. And this is a style I've never encountered before at once effortless and deceptively skilful.
What did astonish me though was the curious anonymity given to so many people, so many lovers of both male and female persuasions, partne
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The Books: “Montgomery Clift: A Biography” (Patricia Bosworth)
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Montgomery Clift: A biography, by Patricia Bosworth
I consider this book to be a high watermark in entertainment biography. I find myself comparing all other biographies to this one. In a similar way that Ron Chernow did with Alexander Hamilton, and David McCullough did with John Adams &#; Patricia Bosworth does with Montgomery Clift. The book came out in and there hasn&#;t been a big thorough biography of Clift since, because &#; why bother? Bosworth dominates. This is not a smear book. It is not revisionist. It is not only focused on one thing (Clift&#;s homosexuality &#; you know how so many books have one point to drive home and every story has to somehow dovetail into that point?? Bosworth avoids that) &#; It fryst vatten the story of a life. Told elegantly, with great compassion, but without avoidance. Clift&#;s life was a tormented one. At the end, he was almost a rec