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For the next nine years, Clift made nearly as many films after his traumatic car accident as he had previously. Still, the last half of his 20-year career has been referred to as the "longest suicide in Hollywood history" by acting teacher Robert Lewis because of Clift's subsequent abuse of painkillers and alcohol. [55]
During filming, Montgomery Clift was injured and nearly killed in a serious automobile accident. On the evening of May 12, 1956, feeling tired and suffering from a hangover, he drove into a telephone pole and wrecked his car. He broke his nose, cut his lip, and fractured his jaw in three places, which had to be wired back together by surgery. [12]
Making Montgomery Clift is a 2018 American documentary film by directors Robert Anderson Clift and Hillary Demmon chronicling the life of actor Montgomery Clift until his death in 1966. It shows a different side of Clift, portraying him as a man who enjoyed life and love, and as comfortable with being a gay man. [1]
Dean died in a car accident in 1955 at 24, just as his star was beginning its ascent. Giant was released the following year, and Dean received his second posthumous best actor Oscar nomination for ...
A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American tragedy film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled An American Tragedy.It tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women: one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory, and the other a beautiful socialite.
Bernie Taupin has revealed he did not initially intend the original version of Candle In The Wind to be about Marilyn Monroe. The Oscar-winning songwriter, whose long-running collaboration with ...
Oct. 5—Man dies in Mont. warehouse accident MONTGOMERY — A man died early Thursday morning from injuries suffered when heavy objects fell on him while he was at work in a Seneca Foods Inc ...
At the time, she was the biggest box office draw in Hollywood, and she used this power to insist that Montgomery Clift be hired for the film. [7] As a result of a May 1956 car crash near the home of Taylor and her then-husband Michael Wilding , Clift had become heavily dependent on drugs and alcohol.