Montgomery Clift

Clift has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. He was an advocate for healthy diet and authored the 1960 book, Stay Young and Vital. He died of Parkinsons disease in 1990 and is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. He is interred in the Quaker Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Cummings was married five times, and had seven children. Montgomery Clift died at the age of 45 of heart problems brought on by his drug and alcohol addictions. His last significant credit was the 1973 TV movie Partners in Crime, also starring Lee Grant. He turned down the starring roles in East of Eden and Sunset Blvd.. He also spent a season starring in My Living Doll (1964), another sitcom.

He needed reconstructive surgery on his face, but returned to acting and to stardom. That was followed by The New Bob Cummings Show, 1961-1962. In 1956, while filming Raintree County, he smashed his car into a tree, and only quick thinking by co-star Elizabeth Taylor, who pulled two teeth out of his throat to keep him from choking, saved his life. He was in the first performance of Twelve Angry Men to be televised, a live production that aired in 1955, and received an Emmy award for his role as Juror Number Eight. Beginning in 1955 and continuing through 1959, Cummings starred in his own sitcom, The Bob Cummings Show (shown in reruns as Love That Bob). But the public never knew until after his death that he was a bisexual, and his guilt over this led to his continuing alcoholism and drug use. Cummings began a long career on television in 1952 with the comedy My Hero. Amazingly, Clift was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for Judgement At Nuremberg in a role that only took up seven minutes of screen time. He served duty at a base in Oxnard, California during World War II, and later was a pilot in the United States Air Force Reserve.

He had a highly successful film career, performing in many Oscar-nominated roles and becoming a matinee idol for his good looks. His many film comedies also include: The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) with Jean Arthur, and The Bride Wore Boots (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Cummings gave memorable performances in three notable dramas: Kings Row (1942), Saboteur (1942), and Dial M for Murder (1954). Clift was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor that same year for The Search. He achieved stardom in 1939 in Three Smart Girls Grow Up opposite Deanna Durbin. He achieved success on the stage and starred there for ten years before moving to Hollywood, debuting in 1948's Red River opposite John Wayne. In the 1930s Cummings worked (under his own name) as a contract player and appeared in a number of minor roles. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Clift appeared on Broadway at the age of thirteen. He had a brief career on Broadway under the stage name Blade Stanhope Conway, a supposed Englishman, before moving to Hollywood, California, first acting under the name and persona of Bruce Hutchens, wealthy Texan.

Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 - July 23, 1966) was an American actor. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. The Defector. While attending high school there he was taught to fly by his godfather, Orville Wright. Freud. Cummings was born in Joplin, Missouri. Judgment at Nuremberg. He chiefly performed in comic roles but was effective in his few dramas, especially two Alfred Hitchcock films, Saboteur and Dial M for Murder.

The Misfits. Robert Cummings (June 10, 1908 - December 2, 1990), also known as Bob Cummings, was an American motion picture and television actor. Wild River. Suddenly, Last Summer. Lonelyhearts.

The Young Lions. Raintree County. From Here to Eternity. Indescretion of an American Wife.

I Confess. A Place in the Sun. The Big Lift. The Heiress.

Red River. The Search. 1949 - Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Search. 1952 - Best Actor in a Leading Role - A Place in the Sun.

1954 - Best Actor in a Leading Role - From Here to Eternity. 1962 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Judgment at Nuremberg.