"MONTY" THE MOVIE

Twin screenwriters on a quest to resurrect Montgomery Clift.

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July 23 marks fifty years since the too-young, tragic death of Montgomery Clift. We’re celebrating the actor with a look at his best adapted work.

RIP Monty Clift

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Best Actress, 1939 - 15 Best Oscars Lineups of All Time

Bette Davis (Dark Victory), Irene Dunne (Love Affair), Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Greer Garson (Goodbye, Mr.

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Production stills from Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) from this French site.

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Little known fact about Monty - he had a twin sister named Ethel, and high-waisted shorts apparently.

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Monty Clift and Max Schell on the set of Judgement at Nuremberg (1961). It looks like they are going over the script, which Monty had a hard time remembering. According to the film’s director Stanley Kramer, Monty was very drunk and jittery. And after flubbing his lines over and over again, Monty wowed the sound stage by playing his part word-perfect all in one take. 

When we visited the NYPL last Summer, we found Monty’s original shooting script for Nuremberg and noticed lots of hand annotated changes he made to ensure that his character, a mentally challenged farmhand, sounded absolutely real. 

Monty Clift was a conundrum, on one hand he was a consummate perfectionist and intellectual, but he had the overwhelming capacity to self-sabotage. 

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An illuminating visit to the New York Public Library “Billy Rose Division” for some in depth research. The Montgomery Clift collection is a fantastic assortment of photos (Clift was an avid photographer), personal letters from friends and family, production scripts, and original plays written by Clift.

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Throw Back Tuesday to June 2014 when we completed research on our screenplay MONTY at the New York Public Library!

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John Huston, the father. A little insight into the kind of father and man Mr. Huston was. It’s not difficult to see why actors felt antagonized - his directing style was pedantic at times, but he also achieved great performances… an intriguing and complicated man.

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‘Misfits’ is a tribute to Marilyn Monroe: 1961 review

New York Daily News gave “Misfits” four stars in 1961.

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David O. Russell ‘Blown Away’ by Soap Actors Because They Just Do Their Damn Jobs

He loves a good catfight.

“In 1962, during a series of interviews with François Truffaut, Hitchcock famously referred to actors as cattle. For example, during the shooting of I Confess, Hitchcock didn't get along with Montgomery Clift. According to Patricia Bosworth's Montgomery Clift: A Biography, Hitchock would tell Clift exactly how he wanted him to behave in scenes. Clift balked at the demands and would act how he wanted in other takes, but Hitchcock would ultimately use the takes where Clift followed his instructions. It shouldn't come as surprise that a number of the actors Hitchock worked with — including Farley Granger, John Forsythe, and Macdonald Carey — went on to act in soaps.”

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Another Side of Arthur Miller

A new production of “A View from the Bridge” draws out the play’s hidden hysteria.

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Veterans meet in Oklahoma City to share memories

Chuck Childs was a pilot during the Berlin Airlift. "It was odd for me because, during the war, I was fighting the Germans to help the Russians, and now I was going up against the Russians to help Germans," he said during a recent military reunion in Oklahoma City. Childs was among 30 veterans of the Berlin Airlift who participated in the reunion. Also gathering were 40 members of the 461st Bomb Wing, which stayed on alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis and flew missions during the Vietnam war. The Berlin Airlift Veterans Association meets each year to commemorate how the German city was saved following World War II.

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Touring the Dark Side of Los Angeles

For the noir-curious, an entire branch of tourism trafficks in the city’s underbelly. Call it Morbid Los Angeles.

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10. Assert yourself. - Famous Last Words

"Absolutely not!"—Montgomery Clift (1920–1966), when asked on the day he died if he'd like to watch "The Misfits," which was about to air on TV

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New exhibition celebrates Elizabeth Taylor's HIV/AIDS campaign work

From tender moments shared with the men in her life to behind-the-scenes shots and photos from a 1949 London trip, a new exhibition offers fans the chance to view unseen images of Taylor.

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James Dean's legend lives on – but what about the films?

James Dean is one of the most widely recognisable movie stars of all time. But, on the 60th anniversary of his death, Patrick Smith asks: how many of his films have you seen?

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Unseen footage of Marilyn Monroe filmed on set of The Misfits for sale

The 48-minute reel of never-before-seen footage was shot as troubled screen siren Marilyn Monroe filmed at various locations across the U.S. for the 1961 film The Misfits.