It was love at first sight when they first met in the early 1950s. Many in Hollywood assumed they were a couple. Moviegoers wondered when they might marry. Though Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) and ...

The Berkshire beginnings of the acting career of Montgomery Clift, hailed today as one of Hollywood's most promising stars, are recalled by F. Cowles Strickland, first Playhouse director, in a recent ...

"Letters to Montgomery Clift," the first novel by performance artist Noel Alumit, is the complex and deeply felt coming-of-age story of a Filipino American boy. As he grows, the narrator -- called ...

Elizabeth Taylor, in a scene from the movie “Suddenly Last Summer,” adapted from a play by Tennessee Williams and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Columbia Pictures. (Getty Images) The following ...

Edward Montgomery “Monty” Clift 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 ...

Paul Newman came from Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando, the great tragic heroes of Hollywood, intense and theatrical. Robert Redford, on the other hand, was a more modern figure, less intense but ...

From left, Eva Marie Saint, Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor stand on the cast iron steps fronting Windsor Ruins near Port Gibson, Mississippi, during the 1956 filming of 'Raintree County.' The ...

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