Montgomery Clift
Biography: Edward Montgomery “Monty” Clift (October 17, 1920 - July 23, 1966) was an American actor of the Golden Age, known for often playing sensitive or conflicted outcast characters with realistic emotional depth and anxieties. Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean are the trio typically associated with the new wave of film acting, with Clift being the oldest and first to make his stage and screen debuts. Starting at age 14, he was a breakout talent on Broadway throughout 1935-1945. He finally accepted one of many Hollywood offers: starring in the Western “Red River” which was filmed in 1946 but delayed release for 2 years. Fred Zinnemann’s “The Search” preceded “Red River” as his first film in 1948 and first Academy Award nomination. Clift’s next major films were “The Heiress” (1949) and “A Place in the Sun” (1951), cementing his romantic lead status. At the time, audiences had rarely seen a type of masculinity softened with Clift’s vulnerability. Hollywood had also never seen a young actor control his career and instant stardom the way Clift did in the late 1940’s: notoriously selective, refusing the standard seven-year studio contracts and rewriting scripts to preserve his artistic freedom. In 1953, Zinnemann again directed Clift to an Academy Award nomination in war drama “From Here to Eternity.” After suffering a near-fatal car accident during “Raintree County” (1957) he starred in acclaimed 1960’s films "Wild River,” "The Misfits” and “Judgment at Nuremberg” for which he earned a fourth and final Academy Award nomination for his 12-minute scene. Despite a 4-year hiatus and mounting health problems, Clift was eager to make a comeback in "Reflections in a Golden Eye,” secured by the insurance and insistence of co-star Elizabeth Taylor, but he tragically died of a heart attack at the age of 45 just weeks before shooting began.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 17, 1920
Deathday: July 23, 1966
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Judgment at Nuremberg
1961-12-18
Judgment at Nuremberg
Overview: In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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Red River
1948-08-26
Red River
Overview: Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-26
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000-08-01
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Overview: A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-01
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The Defector
1966-10-19
The Defector
Overview: An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-19
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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990-01-01
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Overview: Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of the worlds brightest stars are hiding deep, dark secrets that - once revealed show a life of unhappiness, heartbreak and torment that has been so carefully hidden behind the glamour and glitter of the big screen. See the true lives behind some of Hollywoods most iconic stars and learn why, for some, it was as if the act of dying itself was a final performance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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I Confess
1953-02-13
I Confess
Overview: Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-13
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The Misfits
1961-02-01
The Misfits
Overview: While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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From Here to Eternity
1953-08-28
From Here to Eternity
Overview: In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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A Place in the Sun
1951-06-12
A Place in the Sun
Overview: A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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The Young Lions
1958-04-02
The Young Lions
Overview: The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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The Heiress
1949-10-06
The Heiress
Overview: In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-06
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Freud: The Secret Passion
1962-12-12
Freud: The Secret Passion
Overview: An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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The Search
1948-03-26
The Search
Overview: In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-26
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Suddenly, Last Summer
1959-12-22
Suddenly, Last Summer
Overview: The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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The Big Lift
1950-04-26
The Big Lift
Overview: The Berlin Air Lift from the point of view of two Air Force NCOs who navigate romance in a bombed out post WW2 Germany.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-26
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Raintree County
1957-12-20
Raintree County
Overview: In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Wild River
1960-05-26
Wild River
Overview: A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-26
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Indiscretion of an American Wife
1953-04-02
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Overview: While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-02
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Lonelyhearts
1959-03-04
Lonelyhearts
Overview: Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
1987-10-07
Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star
Overview: One of Hollywood's brightest stars is eclipsed by drink, drugs and self-doubt.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973-01-01
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Overview: A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known pictures.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Montgomery Clift
1983-01-01
Montgomery Clift
Overview: A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with family and friends, and rare archival material stretching back to his childhood. What develops is the story of an intense young boy who yearned for stardom, achieved notable success in such classic films as From Here to Eternity and I Confess, only to be ruined by alcohol addiction and his inability to face his own fears and homosexual desires. Montgomery Clift, as this film portrays him, may not have been a happy man but he never compromised his acting talents for Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
2004-09-07
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
Overview: Documentary short focusing on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film I Confess.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-07
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Rat Pack
2022-01-11
Rat Pack
Overview: In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-11
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Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002-11-26
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Overview: A tribute to the legendary costume designer Edith Head during her years providing costumes for the films of Paramount studio which includes Sunset Boulevard, Roman Holiday and many others during her distinguished career that lasted more than six decades and earned her eight Academy Awards wins in between more than 30 nominations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-26
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Starring Sigmund Freud
2012-11-01
Starring Sigmund Freud
Overview: Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011, the video collects the dozens of appearances that the character of Sigmund Freud has made on small and big screens. After the 1950s, when pill vials replaced analytic couches, the father of psychoanalysis found a second career impersonating himself in everything from a John Huston clunker to a Star Trek episode. The video suggests that maybe it is in front of the camera, alongside surgically enhanced starlets and CGI chimeras, that “Herr Doktor” will find his final resting place. This video was produced by the Kadist Foundation and commissioned by dOCUMENTA (13).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-01
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Listen to Me Marlon
2015-07-29
Listen to Me Marlon
Overview: With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-29
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Operation Raintree
1957-08-31
Operation Raintree
Overview: MGM short that looks at the behind the scenes production of Raintree County.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-31
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994-12-19
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Overview: A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' work, among them extracts of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951),Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Night of the Iguana, The (1964), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV). Contains footage of Williams being interviewed, including conversations with David Frost, 'Edward R. Murrow (I)', and Melvyn Bragg, as well as reminiscences from people who knew and worked with him, among them Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, and his lifelong friend, Lady Maria St. Just. Features readings from Elia Kazan's Notebook by Kim Hunter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-19
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Making Montgomery Clift
2018-09-23
Making Montgomery Clift
Overview: Classic film star and queer icon Montgomery Clift’s legacy has long been a story of tragedy and self-destruction. But when his nephew dives into the family archives, a much more complicated picture emerges.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-23
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Making 'The Misfits'
2002-10-02
Making 'The Misfits'
Overview: A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-02
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985-03-03
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Overview: Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-03
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997-11-01
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Overview: A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014-09-20
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Overview: In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb acting skills made him truly unique, so that the doors to the starry sky of Hollywood opened for him. However, his peculiar manners, political commitment and complicated love life always overshadowed his artistic success.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-20
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George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
2001-08-14
George Stevens and His Place In The Sun
Overview: This short documentary takes a look at director George Stevens' making of the classic 1951 film A Place in the Sun.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-14
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