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Edward Montgomery Clift (nicknamed 'Monty' his entire lifestyles) used to be born on October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, simply after his dual sister Roberta (1920-2014) and eighteen months after his brother Brooks Clift. He used to be the son of Ethel "Sunny" Anderson (Fogg; 1888-1988) and William Brooks Clift (1886-1964). His father made some huge cash in banking but used to be quite deficient all through the depression. His mother used to be born out of wedlock and spent a lot of her life and the circle of relatives fortune finding her illustrious southern lineage and elevating her kids as aristocrats.

At age 13, Monty appeared on Broadway ("Fly Away Home"), and selected to remain within the New York theater for over ten years sooner than after all succumbing to Hollywood. He gained excellent theatrical notices and shortly piqued the interests of a lot of lovelorn actresses; their advances met with awkward war. While operating in New York within the early Forties, he met wealthy former Broadway star Libby Holman. She evolved an intense decade-plus obsession over the younger actor, even financing an experimental play, "Mexican Mural" for him. It was once ironic his courting with the bisexual middle-aged Holman will be the principal (and most likely the closing) heterosexual dating of his life and handiest cause him further anguish over his sexuality. She would wield considerable influence over the early a part of his movie occupation, advising him in decisions to decline lead roles in Sunset Blvd. (1950), (in the beginning written in particular for him; the tale possibly hitting a bit too on the subject of house) and High Noon (1952).

His lengthy apprenticeship on stage made him a totally achieved actor, notable for the depth with which he researched and approached his roles. By the early 1950's he was once exclusively gay, though he persisted to cover his homosexuality and maintained quite a lot of close friendships with theater girls (closely promoted by studio publicists).

His movie debut was once Red River (1948) with John Wayne temporarily followed by means of his early personal luck The Search (1948) (Oscar nominations for this, A Place within the Sun (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)). By 1950, he was stricken with allergies and colitis (the U.S. Army had rejected him for army service in World War II for chronic diarrhea) and, together with tablet issues, he was alcoholic. He spent a great deal of time and money on psychiatry.

In 1956, right through filming of Raintree County (1957), he ran his Chevrolet into a tree after leaving a birthday celebration at Elizabeth Taylor's; it used to be she who stored him from choking via pulling out two tooth lodged in his throat. His smashed face used to be rebuilt, he reconciled with his estranged father, but he persisted bedeviled through dependency on medicine and his unrelenting guilt over his homosexuality.

With his Hollywood occupation in an irreversible slide (regardless of giving an occasional riveting performance, similar to in Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)), Monty returned to New York and tried to slowly develop a fairly more sensible lifestyle in his brownstone row house on East 61st Street in Manhattan. He was set to play in Taylor's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), when he died at the early morning hours of July 23, 1966 at his house at age 45. His body was once discovered by his live-in private secretary/spouse Lorenzo James who found Clift lying nude on most sensible of his bed, dead from what the post-mortem known as "occlusive coronary artery disease." Clift's closing 10 years previous to his death from his 1956 car twist of fate used to be referred to as the "longest suicide in history" via famed performing teacher, Robert Lewis.

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