Legends Never Die

Bisexual Hollywood icon Montgomery Clift may not have been the tortured soul that straight film historians would have you believe — and legend has it he might still be around trying to prove it.

TRUDY RING

MONTGOMERY CLIFT WAS one of the most highly regarded — and arguably most beautiful — film actors of the mid-20th century. He also was unabashedly bisexual, something that couldn’t be acknowledged in the press at the time, but in his social circles he was open about his relationships with both men and women. An image has emerged of him as depressive, self-destructive, and tortured about his sexuality — but a documentary released by his nephew Robert Anderson Clift in 2018, Making Montgomery Clift, takes issue with that. He had a brooding side, yes, and sometimes overindulged in alcohol and drugs, but he was also fun-loving and was comfortable with his sexual orientation, according to the documentary. What’s not in dispute is Clift’s brilliance as an actor. He started on Broadway…

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