Movies
* With four Oscar nods in a span of just 13 years, Montgomery Clift was like a shooting star.
Aug. 29, 2004
Monty: An actor of fragile brilliance
Obituaries
July 24, 1966
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Debbie Reynolds to be feted
April 4, 2013
With four Oscar nods in a span of just 13 years, Montgomery Clift was like a shooting star.
Books
HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST CHOICES: Or Why Groucho Marx Never Played Rhett Butler by Jeff Burkhart & Bruce Stuart (Crown Publishers: $14, paperback; 230 pp.)
July 3, 1994
Television
Retired NBC staff television director William B.
Sept. 29, 1986
While it is true that Montgomery Clift’s first film role was in “Red River,” as Susan King writes in “Monty: An Actor of Fragile Brilliance” (Aug. 29), American movie-goers got their first look at him in “The Search,” which was filmed after “Red River” but released before it.
Sept. 5, 2004
If I may add some comments to Garry Wills’ article on the making of “Red River” (“The Birth of the Duke,” April 20): Early casting choices for the leads were Cary Grant and Gary Cooper, but feeling they weren’t right for it, they both turned it down.
April 27, 1997
Entertainment & Arts
Director Bill Condon undercuts the premise of Louise Roug’s article (“An Intimate Shift on the Big Screen,” Nov. 7) on Hollywood’s current interest in male bisexuality by using Marlon Brando as a past symbol of masculinity.
Nov. 14, 2004