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71-617: Barry Sullivan may refer to: Barry Sullivan (American actor) (1912–1994), US film and Broadway actor Barry Sullivan (stage actor) (1821–1891), Irish born stage actor active in Britain and Australia Barry Sullivan (lawyer) , Chicago lawyer and the Cooney & Conway Chair in Advocacy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Barry Sullivan (ice hockey) (1927–1989), ice hockey player in

142-488: A European ship, a boy forced Clift’s head underwater in the swimming pool for so long that a gland in his neck burst from his struggle to breathe; he had a long scar from the resulting infection and operation. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930s ruined Clift's father financially; Bill was forced to downsize and move to Chicago to take a new job while Sunny continued traveling with

213-543: A Western from the King Brothers and Monogram, Bad Men of Tombstone (1949). MGM signed Sullivan to a contract, and he played supporting roles in Tension (1950), The Outriders (1950), Nancy Goes to Rio (1950), A Life of Her Own (1950), and Grounds for Marriage (1951). He was upped to leading man for Cause for Alarm! (1951) with Young and Payment on Demand (1951) with Bette Davis at RKO but

284-483: A deal with Clift and was collectively shocked that a young actor could command such leverage after the release of a single film: "the death knell of the producers and the moguls, and the birth of Actor Power." Clift was on the cover of Life magazine by December 1948. Look magazine gave him its Achievement Award and called him "the most promising star on the Hollywood horizon. Clift's first film for Paramount

355-537: A few women based on friends' accounts and interviews. He was linked to actresses Libby Holman and Phyllis Thaxter . However, Clift's longest relationships were with men. He was involved with the Adventures of Superman actor Jack Larson and theater actor William LeMassena , with whom he had a three-year relationship. LeMassena remained a close friend to Clift until his death. He described their relationship with fondness and kept taped film reels of Clift and

426-540: A member of the cast of the 1939 Broadway production of Noël Coward 's Hay Fever , Clift participated in one of the first television broadcasts in the United States. The Hay Fever performance was broadcast by NBC's New York television station W2XBS (the forerunner of WNBC ) and was aired during the 1939 New York World's Fair . At age 20, he appeared in the Broadway production of There Shall Be No Night ,

497-536: A musical judge on Jukebox Jury . His first starring television role was a syndicated adaptation of the radio series The Man Called X for Ziv Television in 1956-1957 as secret agent Ken Thurston. He directed some episodes of Highway Patrol , which was made by Ziv, who did Harbourmaster . He continued to make guest appearances on shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Pursuit , Playhouse 90 , The DuPont Show with June Allyson , The United States Steel Hour and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse , and he

568-429: A romance with Truman Capote . Author James Jones and Clift became very close during the filming of From Here to Eternity. Jones publicly stated, "I would have had an affair with him, but he never asked me." One of Clift's first intimate relationships was with composer Lehman Engel . He was also involved with Donald Windham and his partner Sandy Campbell . In his memoir, Arthur Laurents suggests that Clift had

639-711: A short time at the Dalton School in Manhattan but struggled with traditional schooling. He continued to flourish onstage and appeared in works by Moss Hart and Cole Porter , Robert Sherwood , Lillian Hellman , Tennessee Williams , and Thornton Wilder , creating the part of Henry in the original production of The Skin of Our Teeth . Clift proved to be a successful young stage actor working with, among others, Dame May Whitty , Alla Nazimova , Mary Boland , Cornelia Otis Skinner , Fredric March , Tallulah Bankhead , Alfred Lunt , and Lynn Fontanne . In 1939, as

710-507: A small non-paying role. Close to a year later the family moved again, settling in New York City. Clift debuted on Broadway at age 14 as Harmer Masters in the comedy Fly Away Home, which ran from January to July 1935 at the 48th Street Theatre . The New York World-Telegram noticed Clift’s "amazing poise and dexterity" while producer Theo Bamberger commended him for what he called a "natural histrionic instinct." Clift spent

781-624: A support role in Her Twelve Men (1954). In June 1954 he returned to Broadway to replace Henry Fonda in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial . He went to Paramount to support James Stewart in Strategic Air Command (1955) and guested on shows like General Electric Theater , Studio One in Hollywood , Climax! and Ford Star Jubilee (reprising his Caine Mutiny performance). Sullivan

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852-466: A two-month recovery period, Clift returned to the set to finish the film. Despite the studio's concerns over profits, Clift correctly predicted the film would do well, if only because moviegoers would flock to see the difference in his facial appearance before and after the crash. Although the results of Clift's plastic surgeries were remarkable for the time in leaving no visible scars, there were noticeable differences in his facial appearance, particularly

923-449: A work that won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . Clift also participated in radio broadcasts early in his career, though, according to one critic, he hated the medium. On May 24, 1944, he was part of the cast of Eugene O'Neill 's Ah, Wilderness! for The Theatre Guild on the Air . In 1949, as part of the promotional campaign for the film The Heiress , he played Heathcliff in

994-599: Is in even worse shape than I am". In his 12-minute cameo scene in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Clift played a developmentally disabled German baker who had been a victim of the Nazi sterilisation programme testifying at the Nuremberg trials . Clift was willing to waive his fee entirely, accepting the supporting part with minimum compensation. His anguished performance (which earned him his fourth Academy Award nomination)

1065-691: The NBC Radio show The Saint . Sullivan lasted only two episodes before the show was cancelled. Sullivan had a small role in the Universal serial The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941). He had a supporting part in High Explosive (1943) for Pine-Thomas Productions , who released through Paramount, and he was the second male lead in The Woman of the Town (1943) with Claire Trevor . He

1136-524: The Air . Clift did not serve during World War II , having been given 4-F status after suffering dysentery in 1942. Immediately following the end of the war in September 1945 (in what would be Clift's penultimate Broadway performance,) he starred in the stage adaptation of D.H. Lawrence 's short story You Touched Me. He and actor Kevin McCarthy later wrote a screenplay for a film adaptation that

1207-789: The Balaban family vacations to Nassau, Bahamas . Judy Balaban , his daughter, claimed that she had an immediate connection with Clift and the two were "joined at the hip," dating for many months following. She attended the New York premiere of A Place in the Sun in August 1951 as his date. Prior to his involvement with Balaban, Clift had received a barrage of blackmail phone calls at his residence, threatening to out him as homosexual, which resulted in Clift having to repeatedly change his number. While

1278-700: The Beautiful , Forty Guns , The Price , and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid . He was a featured guest performer in the top television series of his day, starring in two series, Harbormaster and The Tall Man . He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his performance on the 1955 teleplay The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial . Ronald Bergan wrote in The Guardian in 1994: "Second division Hollywood actors like Barry Sullivan ... are usually faintly praised for being reliable or solid. However, when given

1349-492: The Los Angeles premiere of The Heiress as Clift's date to generate publicity. Paramount executive Luigi Luraschi remembered that Taylor, just like many American teenagers, seemed "unmistakably in love" with Clift around the time of filming A Place in the Sun , which commenced soon after that premiere outing. Throughout the 1950s, Clift and Taylor starred together as romantic leads in a total of three films: A Place in

1420-623: The National Hockey League Barry F. Sullivan , American investment banker and politician Barry K. Sullivan, the current Majority Floor Services Chief of the United States House of Representatives See also [ edit ] Barry O'Sullivan (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

1491-591: The Sun was critically acclaimed; Charlie Chaplin called it "the greatest movie made about America". The film received added media attention due to the rumors that Clift and co-star Elizabeth Taylor were dating in real life. After a break, Clift committed himself to three more films, all of which premiered during 1953: I Confess to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock , Vittorio De Sica's Terminal Station , and Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity , which earned Clift his third Academy Award nomination (the second of two nominations for films directed by Zinnemann). For

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1562-520: The Sun , Raintree County and Suddenly, Last Summer. Their romantic scenes in A Place in the Sun received considerable acclaim for their naturalness and authentic appearance. Taylor remained a loyal friend to Clift until his death. In 2000, at the GLAAD Media Awards , where Taylor was honored for her work for the LGBT community, she made the first public declaration by anyone that Clift

1633-406: The actor was actually deliberately and consciously performing with his own rewritten dialogue as opposed to confused improvisation. On a taped phone call, Clift said that he played the character in a way that "holds onto himself, in spite of himself" with dignity. After completing John Huston's Freud: The Secret Passion (1962), Universal Studios sued him for his frequent absences that caused

1704-410: The announcement devastated Robbins. He told Clift "I could make you love me," at the end of their two-year affair. Robbins is said to have conceived the basic plot of West Side Story after Clift shared the idea with him, according to actor Russ Tamblyn . In 2021, Tamblyn recalled that Robbins "told us on the set one day that the idea really came from Montgomery Clift, who was Jerry's boyfriend at

1775-441: The box office brought numerous awards for screenwriting and directing, but none for Clift himself. On January 13, 1963, a few weeks after the initial release of Freud , Clift appeared on the live television discussion program The Hy Gardner Show , where he spoke at length about the release of his current film, his film career, and his treatment by the press. He also talked publicly for the first time about his 1956 car accident,

1846-513: The cast of the long running The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) as Bert Jefferson. He was also in Mr Big (1941), Ring Around Elizabeth (1941) and Johnny 2 X 4 (1942). Sullivan appeared with Bette Davis on stage in 1960 in The World of Carl Sandburg as a substitute for her husband Gary Merrill . In 1950, Sullivan replaced Vincent Price in the role of Leslie Charteris ' Simon Templar on

1917-425: The chance, Sullivan was a powerful, often baleful presence on screen, providing more pleasure than many more touted stars. " Born in New York City, Sullivan was a law student at New York University and Temple University . He fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football. He was later a department store buyer. Sullivan's first appearance on Broadway was in I Want a Policeman in 1936. That year he

1988-499: The children. In a 1957 issue of McCall’s magazine, Clift quipped, "My childhood was hobgoblin , my parents traveled a lot…That’s all I can remember." Clift had shown an interest in acting and theatrics as a child living in Switzerland and France but did not take the initiative to go out for a part in a local production until age 13, when his family was forced to downsize and relocate from Chicago to Sarasota, Florida . He had

2059-684: The comedy, Getting Gertie's Garter (1945). Then he went to Monogram Pictures for Suspense (1946), the most expensive film that studio had made to date, produced by the King Brothers ; Sullivan was second billed to Belita . Monogram were delighted with his work; Sullivan obtained a release from his Paramount contract and signed a three picture deal with Monogram. Sullivan supported Brian Aherne and Constance Bennett in Smart Woman (1948) for Bennett's company, releasing through Monogram (as Allied Artists). He received top billing for

2130-407: The company of There Shall Be No Night enjoying leisure time together. Clift was deeply and intensely involved with Broadway choreographer Jerome Robbins ; "few associates were aware of how intimate and emotionally charged the relationship between Clift and Robbins was." They camouflaged their relationship by dating women. In 1948, when Clift left Robbins to pursue a movie career in Hollywood,

2201-498: The evening of May 12, 1956, while filming Raintree County , Clift was involved in a serious car crash after leaving a dinner party in Beverly Hills, California hosted by Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Michael Wilding . Clift had veered off one of the twisting hairpin turns and smashed into a telephone pole and the surrounding cliffside. Alerted by friend Kevin McCarthy, who witnessed the collision, Taylor found Clift under

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2272-460: The faded rodeo rider Perce Howland in The Misfits , his first, introductory scene, performed inside a phone booth, only took two hours of the scheduled two shooting days, which impressed cast and crew. Marilyn Monroe (in what was to be her last filmed role) was also having emotional and substance abuse problems at the time; she described Clift in a 1961 interview as "the only person I know who

2343-446: The film nationwide as magazines generated massive attention for Clift. Paramount Pictures ended up offering him the best of any incoming studio offer (which he accepted): a three-film deal (down from the typical seven-year contract) that came with the freedom to turn down any script and any director, as well as the right for either himself or the studio to terminate the agreement at any time. Every major Hollywood studio wanted to make

2414-460: The film to go over budget. Clift countersued with the assertion that he struggled to keep up with an overwhelming volume of last-minute script revisions and that an accidental blow to both eyes on set gave him cataracts. The case was later settled out of court with evidence in Clift's favor, but the damage to Clift's reputation as unreliable and troublesome endured. As a consequence, he was unable to find film work for four years. The film's success at

2485-512: The film's premiere. The following summer in 1949, Clift shot The Big Lift in Berlin. It was intended to be more of a semi-documentary, pro-America wartime film and less an acting vehicle, but was still a welcome opportunity for Clift to portray a U.S. soldier. Clift's next role as the drifter George Eastman in A Place in the Sun (1951) is regarded as one of his signature method acting performances. He worked extensively on his character, and

2556-465: The first season of Barnaby Jones; episode titled, "A Little Glory, A Little Death" which initially aired April 29, 1973. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame : one at 1500 Vine St. for his work in television, and another at 6160 Hollywood Blvd. for motion pictures. Sullivan was married three times and had three children. Marie Brown (married 1937, divorced 1957), a Broadway actress,

2627-451: The injuries he received, and its after-effects on his appearance. During the interview, Gardner jokingly mentioned that it is "the first and last appearance on a television interview program for Montgomery Clift". Barred from feature films, Clift turned to voice work. In 1964, he recorded for Caedmon Records The Glass Menagerie , with Jessica Tandy , Julie Harris , and David Wayne . In 1965, he gave voice to William Faulkner 's writings in

2698-744: 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. He began to behave erratically in public, which embarrassed his friends. His next four films were The Young Lions (1958), which is the only film featuring both Clift and Marlon Brando, Lonelyhearts (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and Elia Kazan 's Wild River , released in 1960. With his next two films, The Misfits (1961) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Clift pivoted to somewhat smaller supporting or cameo roles that required less overall screen time while still delivering demanding performances. Playing

2769-436: The latter, Clift committed to building strength and endurance by jogging laps around Hollywood High School , learning boxing from Mushy Callahan and author James Jones , and how to imitate playing the bugle and reading sheet music from trumpeter Mannie Klein for the role of middleweight boxer and bugle-playing soldier Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt. During the casting of From Here to Eternity , Harry Cohn opposed Clift for

2840-419: The left side of his face, which was nearly immobile. Continued pain from his injuries led him to rely on alcohol and pills for relief, as he had done after an earlier bout with dysentery left him with chronic intestinal problems. As a result, Clift's health and physical appearance deteriorated. For the next nine years, Clift made nearly as many films after his traumatic car accident as he had previously. Still,

2911-584: The line as insurance in order to have Clift cast as her co-star in Reflections in a Golden Eye , to be directed by John Huston. In preparation for the shooting of this film, Clift accepted the role of James Bower in the French Cold War thriller The Defector , which was filmed in West Germany from February to April 1966. He insisted on performing his stunts himself, including swimming in

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2982-500: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barry_Sullivan&oldid=1032979688 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Barry Sullivan (American actor) Memorable films and TV programs that Sullivan appeared in include The Great Gatsby , The Bad and

3053-578: The one-hour version of Wuthering Heights for Ford Theatre . In January 1951, he participated in the episode "The Metal in the Moon" for the series Cavalcade of America , sponsored by the chemical company DuPont Company . Also in 1951, Clift was cast for the first time as Tom in the radio world premiere of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie , with Helen Hayes (Amanda) and Karl Malden (the Gentleman Caller), for The Theatre Guild on

3124-593: The part of Prewitt, opting for John Derek or Aldo Ray instead. However, Jones and Zinnemann preferred Clift and personally campaigned for him for the role. Clift visited Jones several times at his homes in Arizona and Illinois and modeled the character after Jones himself. After seeing the film, Jones commended Clift for his portrayal of Prewitt. Clift supported and mentored Frank Sinatra in his role as Private Angelo Maggio. Sinatra later said, "I learned more about acting from him than I ever knew before". On

3195-447: The press assumed that Balaban and Clift were an item, Clift secretly dated British actor Roddy McDowall . According to Balaban, she was naïve about Clift's homosexuality and his romantic involvement with McDowall, who would occasionally accompany them on public outings. McDowall was introduced to Clift by his Lassie Come Home co-star Elizabeth Taylor. During the two and a half years that Clift stayed away from films, McDowall's career

3266-567: The river Elbe in March. The schedule for Reflections in a Golden Eye was then set for August 1966, but Clift died in July 1966. Marlon Brando was cast as his replacement. Clift is said to have valued privacy and ambiguity in his personal life, though he was known to be friendly and affectionate, blurring the emotions of platonic love and sexual attraction, particularly with close friend Elizabeth Taylor . Paramount Pictures arranged for her to attend

3337-508: The shattered dashboard, conscious but with his face bleeding and swelling rapidly. She pulled out a hanging tooth that was cutting into his tongue before accompanying him into the ambulance. He suffered a concussion, broken jaw, broken nose, fractured sinuses, fractured cheekbones, and several facial lacerations that required plastic surgery . In a filmed interview years later in 1963, Clift described his injuries in detail, including how his broken nose could be snapped back into place. After

3408-461: The star–studio relationship for the next 40 years". A documentary titled Making Montgomery Clift was made by his nephew, Robert Anderson Clift, in 2018, to clarify myths that were created about the actor. Edward Montgomery Clift was born on October 17, 1920, in Omaha, Nebraska . His father, William Brooks "Bill" Clift (1886–1964), was the vice-president of Omaha National Trust Company. His mother

3479-483: The television documentary William Faulkner's Mississippi , which aired in April 1965. During this time, Peter Bogdanovich was working at a cinema in New York City when Clift came to see a revival screening of one of his early films – I Confess (1953) – and decided to show him the guestbook where a cinema patron had written down a film request for "Anything with Montgomery Clift!" Elizabeth Taylor put her salary on

3550-435: The time... He said that he was with Monty at a party on Fire Island … [and Clift said] 'I've got an idea for a musical. Why not have a musical about Romeo and Juliet but make it with gangs in New York?' And Jerry said that he just couldn't get it out of his head." Robbins called Clift a "theatrical genius" early on in their affair. In the early 1950s, Barney Balaban (president of Paramount Pictures) invited Clift on one of

3621-541: Was The Heiress (1949). While director William Wyler notably had difficulty with his poor posture, co-star Olivia de Havilland expressed difficulty with his seriousness, saying that "Monty was painstaking and I liked that about him, but I had a sense that Monty was thinking almost entirely of himself and leaving me out of the scene." He tended to funnel most of his energy into intense rehearsals with acting coach Mira Rostova who accompanied him on set. Overall he ended up unhappy with his performance and left early during

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3692-401: Was The Search , which earned him his first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor . Clift's naturalistic performance led to director Fred Zinnemann 's being asked, "Where did you find a soldier who can act so well?" Clift was unhappy with the quality of the script, and reworked it himself. The film was awarded a screenwriting Academy Award for the credited writers. MGM distributed

3763-532: Was Lana Turner 's leading man in Another Time, Another Place (1958) and played star roles in some films for Allied Artists, including Wolf Larsen (1958), an adaptation of The Sea Wolf wherein Sullivan played the title role, and The Purple Gang (1959), a gangster film. His last film was The Last Straw in 1987. In the 1953-1954 television season, Sullivan appeared with other celebrities as

3834-446: Was gay and called him her closest friend and confidant. Clift's brother claimed he was bisexual . When Clift began therapy in late 1950, he informed his psychiatrist that he was homosexual and was struggling to cope with it. After his death, in a taped telephone conversation with his brother, Clift's mother stated that she had known early on that Clift was homosexual. Many of Clift's biographers cite his relationships with men and

3905-567: Was Ethel Fogg "Sunny" Clift ( née Anderson; 1888–1988). His parents were Quakers and met as students at Cornell University , marrying in 1914. Clift had a twin sister, Roberta (who later went by "Ethel"), who survived him by 48 years, and an older brother, William Brooks Clift, Jr. (1919–1986), known as "Brooks," who had a son with actress Kim Stanley and was later married to political reporter Eleanor Clift . Clift had English and Scottish ancestry on his father's side, wealthy relatives who hailed from Chattanooga, Tennessee . His mother, Sunny,

3976-470: Was adopted; she maintained that Clift’s true maternal great-grandfathers were the US postmaster-general Montgomery Blair and Union commander Robert Anderson , a part of her lineage that was clarified to her (when she came of age) by Dr. Edward Montgomery, the family doctor who delivered her. She spent the rest of her life trying to gain the recognition of her alleged relations. Part of Clift's mother's effort

4047-470: Was again nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. For his character's scenes in jail, Clift spent a night in a real state prison. His main acting rival (and fellow Omaha native), Marlon Brando , was so moved by Clift's performance that he voted for Clift to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, sure that he would win, while Clift voted for Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire . A Place in

4118-563: Was also in R.C. Sheriff's St Helena . Sullivan appeared in shorts such as Strike! You're Out (1936), Broker's Follies (1937), Dime a Dance (1937) (alongside Imogene Coca , June Allyson and Danny Kaye ), Dates and Nuts (1937), and Hi-Ho Hollywood (1937). He returned to Broadway with roles in All That Glitters (1938) and Eye on the Sparrow (1938) (with a young Montgomery Clift ). He received attention when he joined

4189-555: Was an American actor. A four-time Academy Award nominee, he was known for his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men", according to The New York Times . He is best remembered for his roles in Howard Hawks 's Red River (1948), George Stevens 's A Place in the Sun (1951), Fred Zinnemann 's From Here to Eternity (1953), Stanley Kramer 's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and John Huston 's The Misfits (1961). Along with Marlon Brando and James Dean , Clift

4260-502: Was back down the cast list for Three Guys Named Mike (1951), Mr. Imperium (1951), and Inside Straight (1951). He was given top billing in No Questions Asked (1951), a role originally meant for Gable. Sullivan played the lead in a series of lower budgeted films noir: Loophole (1954) for Allied Artists, Playgirl (1954) at Universal, and The Miami Story (1954) for Sam Katzman . He went back to MGM for

4331-504: Was considered one of the original method actors in Hollywood (though Clift distanced himself from the term); he was one of the first actors to be invited to study in the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan . He also executed a rare move by not signing a contract after arriving in Hollywood, only doing so after his first two films were a success. This was described as "a power differential that would go on to structure

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4402-600: Was her determination that her children should be brought up in the style of aristocrats. Thus, as long as Clift's father was able to pay for it, he and his siblings were privately tutored, travelled extensively in America and Europe, became fluent in German and French, and led a protected life, sheltered from the destitution and communicable diseases that became legion following the First World War. At age 7, while aboard

4473-428: Was in a TV adaptation of My Three Angels . Barry Sullivan starred in a western TV show, The Tall Man ...(1960–1962) Sullivan starred in the television series The Road West , as family patriarch Ben Pride. He guest starred on Perry Mason , Mission: Impossible , Bonanza , Garrison's Gorillas , Mannix , The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , That Girl , and It Takes a Thief . Barry Sullivan also appeared in

4544-836: Was leading man to Joan Crawford in Queen Bee (1955), Claudette Colbert in Texas Lady (1955), Barbara Stanwyck in The Maverick Queen (1956) and Doris Day in Julie (1956). In 1956 he was in Too Late the Phalarope on Broadway which had a short run. He had the lead in a low budget Western Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957), The Way to the Gold (1957), and Sam Fuller 's Forty Guns (1957) with Stanwyck. He

4615-769: Was mother to both Jenny and John Sullivan. Sullivan married model and actress Gita Hall in 1958; they divorced in June 1961. The couple's daughter, Patsy, was a child model. While married to songwriter Jimmy Webb , Patsy gave Sullivan seven grandchildren. Sullivan's third marriage was to Desiree Sumarra. The union produced no children and ended in divorce in 1965. Sullivan died at age 81 of respiratory failure on June 6, 1994. In 1950 Barry Sullivan filled in for Vincent Price (delayed in Paris) as The Saint (The Ghost that Giggled, Sept 17, 1950) Montgomery Clift Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966)

4686-507: Was never made. By this time, Clift had developed what would come to be regarded as his signature acting style and biggest impact on the future of modern film acting, as told by biographer Robert LaGuardia: He managed to convince the audience that he was unmitigated male sexuality without making a vulgar display of himself, as most other actors of his age and type would have. How? He used inner silence, unusual pauses in his speeches, awkward body movements. He spoke so quietly that at times he

4757-547: Was nonexistent. He devoted himself entirely to Clift and moved from Los Angeles to New York to be closer to his idol. Reportedly, McDowall attempted suicide after their breakup. Nevertheless, he showed no bitterness and would also remain one of Clift's loyal friends. McDowall starred with Clift in his final picture, The Defector . Clift later stated that he could never have finished the film without McDowall's moral support. While filming for Vittorio De Sica in Italy, Clift had

4828-466: Was often thought to be due to his own nervous breakdown. Director Stanley Kramer later wrote in his memoirs that Clift "wasn't always close to the script, but whatever he said fitted in perfectly" and that he suggested Clift turn to Spencer Tracy to "ad lib something" when he struggled to remember his lines for his one scene. In nephew Robert Anderson Clift's 2018 documentary , superimposed pages of Clift's own heavily annotated original script show that

4899-526: Was opposite John Wayne in the Western film Red River ; director Howard Hawks was impressed by his recent stage performance and was willing to sign him with no strings attached, which greatly appealed to Clift's sense of independence. Although filmed in 1946, the film was delayed release until August 1948. A critical and commercial success, the film was nominated for two Academy Awards . Clift's second film role (though it premiered first that same year)

4970-424: Was practically inaudible. He shifted his moods erratically, from a brooding pose to a bursting smile. These were extremely unorthodox, risky procedures, and had the effect of involving the audience with him , an exceedingly selfish aim if one thinks only in terms of the play, but a daring and stupendously courageous maneuver when one thinks of the ground he was breaking. At age 25, Clift's first Hollywood film role

5041-635: Was signed to a long term contract by Paramount, who gave him a good support role in an "A" film, the musical Lady in the Dark (1944) with Ginger Rogers . He supported Dorothy Lamour in Rainbow Island (1944) and Alan Ladd and Loretta Young in And Now Tomorrow (1944), and was one of many Paramount names in Duffy's Tavern (1945). He supported Dennis O'Keefe and Marie McDonald in

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