The next day, an orphaned boy named Matthew Garth ( played as a boy by Mickey Kuhn and as an adult by Montgomery Clift ) who had been part of the wagon train Dunson had left, and who came back from finding a strayed cow to see the ruins of the train wanders into Dunson and Groot's camp, babbling inchoerently.

Neverless, Clift continued to work over the next ten years.

At 6: 30 a. m. the next day, James woke up and went to wake Clift, but found the bedroom door closed and locked.

It was written by Abby Mann, directed by Stanley Kramer, and starred Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner and Montgomery Clift.

Her autobiography, The Hiding Place ( 1971 ) was later adapted as a film of the same name in 1975 and starred Jeannette Clift as ten Boom.

The play was produced by the Theatre Guild in 1940 and starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and featured Montgomery Clift.

Later, he attended the Actors Studio from its inception ; there, he would study acting with founding member Robert Lewis, alongside, among others, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Herbert Berghof, and Sidney Lumet, not to mention his soon-to-be wife, Anne Jackson.

It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Ernest Borgnine, stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Montgomery Clift, with a reputation for sensitive, three-dimensional performances, adds another to his growing list as the independent GI who refuses to join the company boxing team, taking instead the " treatment " dished out at the C. O.

" Spiegel disliked O ' Toole, having worked with him on Suddenly, Last Summer ( where O ' Toole was an understudy for Montgomery Clift and considered to take over his part after Clift's alcoholism caused problems ), but acceded to Lean's demands after Finney and Brando dropped out.

Wilder had a wide circle of friends and enjoyed mingling with other famous people, including Ernest Hemingway, Russel Wright, Willa Cather, and Montgomery Clift.

He went on to direct Raintree County with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor ; The Young Lions with Clift, Marlon Brando and Dean Martin ; a remake of the Marlene Dietrich classic The Blue Angel, and the film version of Harold Robbins's The Carpetbaggers, among others.

The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, Montgomery Clift as Morris Townsend, and Ralph Richardson as Dr. Sloper.

Zinnemann fought hard with producer Harry Cohn to cast Montgomery Clift as the character of Prewitt, although Frank Sinatra, who was at the lowest point of his popularity, cast himself in the role of " Maggio " against Zinnemann's wishes.

Clift had a twin sister, Roberta ( aka Ethel ), and a brother, William Brooks Clift, Jr. ( 1919 – 1986 ), who had an illegitimate son with actress Kim Stanley.

Clift was unhappy with the quality of the script, and rewrote most of it himself.

Again unhappy with the script, Clift told friends that he wanted to change his co-star Olivia De Havilland's lines because " she isn't giving me enough to respond.

" Clift also was unable to get along with most of the cast ; he criticized De Havilland, saying that she let the director shape her entire performance.

Clift had a large female following, and Olivia De Havilland was flooded with angry fan letters because her character rejects Clift's character in the final scene of the movie.

Clift ended up unhappy with his performance, and left early during the movie's premiere.

" Clift was notoriously picky with his projects.

James then noted that The Misfits was on television that night airing as a late-night movie, and he asked Clift if he wanted to watch it with him.

Inside, he found Clift dead: he was undressed, lying on his back in bed, with eyeglasses on and both fists clenched by his side.

Clift has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard and received four nominations for Academy Awards:

Though offered a fraction of his former salary to co-star in a war drama, The Young Lions ( 1957 ), he was ecstatic to receive the part because it would be a dramatic showcase with the two most intriguing young actors of the period and he could learn from Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift.

The Starck-Schrager design hotel partnerships continued in New York at the Paramount hotel, and then spread to Miami with the opening of the Delano Hotel in South Beach in 1995, to Los Angeles with the Mondrian Hotel in December 1996, to London with both the St. Martins Lane hotel in 1999 and the Sanderson hotel in 2000, to San Francisco and the Clift hotel, and finally back to New York with the Hudson hotel, with what is described as " Cheap Chic ".

In 1941, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt ( Montgomery Clift ), a bugler, is transferred from the Bugle Corps at Fort Shafter ( giving up his corporal stripes ) to a rifle outfit, Company " G ," at Schofield Barracks on the island of Oahu.

* Montgomery Clift as Private Robert E. Lee " Prew " Prewitt

Clift worked exceptionally hard on the character of Robert E. Lee Prewitt.

Wild River is a 1960 film directed by Elia Kazan starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi and Jay C. Flippen filmed on location in the Tennessee Valley.

The novel was made into a 1957 film starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor and Agnes Moorehead.

Other films during this period include Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess with Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter ( 1953 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), where he played a priest who influenced Terry Malloy ( Marlon Brando ) to testify against mobster-union boss Johnny Friendly ( Lee J. Cobb ).

It does not matter who ' invented ' Marlon Brando or how regularly or faithfully he, Dean, or Clift attended the Studio or studied the Method at the feet of Lee Strasberg.

Reelfoot Lake was the location for three memorable Hollywood movie productions: Raintree County, the 1957 drama about the American Civil War, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, and Lee Marvin ; the 1967 Oscar-winner, In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier and Best Actor Rod Steiger ; and U. S. Marshals, the 1998 action thriller, starting Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes.

She made a second film with Elia Kazan called Wild River ( 1960 ), co-starring with Montgomery Clift and Jo Van Fleet.

From his base in New York, he trained several generations of theatre and film's most illustrious talents, including Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and director Elia Kazan.

In 1948, Hawks made Red River, an epic western reminiscent of Mutiny on the Bounty starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his first film.

The song The Right Profile by English Punk band The Clash, off their seminal album London Calling is about the later life of Montgomery Clift, which references his car crash and drug abuse, as well as the movies A Place in the Sun, Red River, From Here to Eternity and The Misfits.

A young idealistic Tennessee Valley Authority administrator, Chuck Glover ( Montgomery Clift ) comes to a small town in Tennessee to enforce the clearing of the land to be flooded by a new dam on the Tennessee River in the early 1930s.

The great cattle drive movie remains Red River ( 1948 ) directed by Howard Hawks, and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.

" Pakula compared his intent with the two characters to that depicted in Red River, a 1948 western in which John Wayne's character is defied by his young protégé, played by Montgomery Clift.

At least two movies have depicted a fictional account of the first drive along the Chisholm Trail: The Texans ( 1938 ), directed by James Hogan and starring Randolph Scott and Joan Bennett, and Red River ( 1948 ), directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift.

A supporting actor in several notable Westerns including John Ford's My Darling Clementine ( 1946 ) and Howard Hawks ' 1948 film Red River ( the scene between Ireland and Montgomery Clift, where they compare guns and take each other's measure by " walking " a can across the ground with their pistol shots, is a film classic ).

* Red River ( 1948 ) with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift

The director Howard Hawks tried to secure his services for the film Red River ( 1948 ), but after Hughes refused to allow Buetel to take part, Montgomery Clift was chosen and Clift went on to an active film career.