"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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