Montgomery Clift papers

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id: 4341
origination: Clift, Montgomery
date statement: 1933-1966
key date: 1933
identifier (local_mss): 21346
org unit: Billy Rose Theatre Division
call number: *T-Mss 1967-006
b-number: b12357456
total components: 222
total series: 7
max depth: 3
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component layout: Default Layout
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created: 2013-04-01 15:05:01 UTC
updated: 2024-08-19 21:33:49 UTC
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unitdate: {"value"=>"1933-1966", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1933/1966"}
unittitle: {"value"=>"Montgomery Clift papers"}
physdesc: {"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"31 boxes and 1 oversized folder", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"11 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
repository: {"value"=>"Billy Rose Theatre Division"}
abstract: {"value"=>"The papers of Montgomery Clift consist of a small amount of correspondence, scripts, photographs, notes and scrapbooks. The strength of the collection is in the large number of annotated scripts which range from early drafts to final scripts. The annotations provide insight both to Clift's involvement in the development of the films and plays and the characters he portrayed. Some plays included are : The Seagull (1954), There Shall be No Night (1940), You Touched Me! (1945) and Yr. Obidient Husband (1938). Films include: The Big Left (1950), The Defector (1966), Freud (1962), From Here to Eternity (1953), Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), The Misfits (1961), A Place in the Sun (1951), Raintree County (1957), The Search (1948), Suddenly Last Summer (1959), Wild River (1960) and The Young Lions (1958), among others. Included as well is a manuscript for an unproduced screenplay written by Clift and Kevin McCarthy, Clift's friend and collaborator."}
langmaterial: {"value"=>"English"}
origination: {"value"=>"Clift, Montgomery", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist: {"value"=>"Montgomery Clift was born in Omaha, Nebraska on October 17, 1920, hours after his twin sister Roberta (Ethel). He lived with his father William Brooks Clift, his mother Ethel \"Sunny\" Fogg Clift, and his older brother William Brooks, Jr. In the mid 1920's his family moved to Chicago and later, in the early 1930's the family settled in New York City. At the age of twelve, Montgomery Clift made his first stage appearance in an amateur production of As Husbands Go in Sarasota, Florida. His professional stage debut was in a Stockbridge, Massachusetts production of a new comedy called Fly Away Home. In 1935, he made his Broadway debut in a New York production of Fly Away Home. Later that year he opened in a Broadway musical Jubilee. Other Broadway plays include Yr. Obedient Husband, Eye on the Sparrow, Dame Nature, The Mother, There Shall Be No Night with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, The Skin of Our Teeth with Tallulah Bankhead, The Searching Wind, Foxhole in the Parlor, and Tennessee Williams' You Touched Me! Montgomery Clift and his longtime friend Kevin McCarthy also wrote a screenplay of You Touched Me!, but it was never produced. Other plays he appeared in are The Wind and the Rain, Out of the Frying Pan, Our Town, and Mexican Mural. The Sea Gull in 1954 was his final stage appearance. In 1946 Clift made his first film, a western entitled Red River, opposite John Wayne. Due to a delay in the release however, his film debut was The Search in 1948 which earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor. Later that same year Red River was finally released. In 1949 he co-starred with Olivia DeHavilland in the film The Heiress and went to Germany to film a World War II movie The Big Lift. He earned two more Academy Award nominations for best actor for his performances in A Place in the Sun (1951) and From Here to Eternity (1953). His co-star in A Place in the Sun, Elizabeth Taylor, became one of his long time friends. He made two more films with Elizabeth Taylor, Raintree County (1957) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). On May 12 1956, Montgomery Clift was involved in a near fatal car accident after leaving a dinner party at Elizabeth Taylor's house in Beverly Hills. The accident disfigured his face, leaving it half paralyzed. Despite his injury he continued to make movies. He appeared with Marlon Brando, Dean Martin, and Hope Lange in The Young Lions (1958). He co-starred with Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable in the film The Misfits (1961). He also earned his fourth Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for his 7-minute performance in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). In 1966, he made his last film entitled The Defector. Other films include I Confess(1953), Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953), Lonelyhearts (1958), Wild River (1960), and Freud (1962). He died in New York on July 23, 1966 in his sleep. The cause of death was occlusive coronary artery disease. Later that year his last film The Defector was released."}
custodhist: {"value"=>"The Montgomery Clift papers were donated by his sister Mrs. Ethel Clift McGinnis in 1967. The collection includes scripts, personal papers, and ephemera. Also included were 14 films on 16mm reels. Additional installments arrived later in November 20, 1967 and on June 29, 1971. Two more 16mm reels arrived in October, 1988."}
scopecontent: {"value"=>"The papers of Montgomery Clift contain correspondence, scripts, photographs, notes, and scrapbooks. The collection is divided into eight series correspondence, writings, four series of scripts, personal papers, and scrapbooks. The strength of the collection is the scripts. Some of the scripts, especially the produced scripts, range from early drafts to final drafts and most contain annotations by Montgomery Clift providing the researcher insight into Clift's involvement with the roles he created. Another aspect of the collection reveals Montgomery Clift's ambition to do his own writings. The collection contains original manuscripts of the screenplay You Touched Me! from the play by Tennessee Williams. The screenplay, written by Montgomery Clift and his long time friend Kevin McCarthy, was never produced."}

{"value"=>"The Montgomery Clift papers are arranged in seven series:\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21346#c297133'>Series I: Correspondence,.</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1937-1966</div>\n<div class='series-description'>This series contains correspondence from Montgomery Clift's family, relatives, friends, and colleagues. Also included are Montgomery Clift's letters to his mother Sunny Clift.</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21346#c297144'>Series II: Writings,.</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1945-1950</div>\n<div class='series-description'>This series contains original manuscripts by Clift and Kevin McCarthy for their film adaptation of the play You Touched Me! an original story by Tennessee Williams. The materials include notes and a rough draft of the unproduced screenplay.</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21346#c297157'>Series III: Produced Scripts.</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'>This series consists of scripts for plays, films, television and sound recordings that were done by Clift. Most of these materials bear his annotations.</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21346#c297267'>Series IV: Rejected Scripts</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'>This series consists of scripts for plays and films which were considered by Montgomery Clift but not contracted or produced.</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21346#c297328'>Series V: Personal Papers and Ephemera</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'>This series contains personal items that belonged to Montgomery Clift. Included are blue prints of his apartment in New York City, photographs of his family, relatives, friends, and colleagues, and unidentified notes and memos.</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21346#c297340'>Series VI: Scrapbooks,.</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1937-1950</div>\n<div class='series-description'>This series contains scrapbooks compiled by Barbara Jane Burch. The scrapbooks contain newspaper and magazine clippings, pictures, and articles about Montgomery Clift and his career from 1937 to 1950.</div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21346#c297345'>Series VII: Clippings,.</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1935-1957</div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
acqinfo: {"value"=>"Gift, Ethel Clift McGinnis, 1967"}
separatedmaterial: {"value"=>"Some photographs recieved in this collection were separated to the Theatre Division's general research photograph files. *T-Pho A: Montgomery Clift - 24 items; Elisabeth Fraser - 3 items; Sidney Greenstreet - 2 items; Libby Holman -2 items; James Jones -4 items; Phyllis Thaxter - 2 items; The Big Lift - 1 item; Freud - 1 item; I Confess - 3 items; Lonelyhearts - 10 items; The Young Lions - 3 items; *T-Pho B: Montgomery Clift - 76 items; Libby Holman - 2 items; Buster Keaton - 1 item; Myrna Loy - 1 item; Maximillian Schell - 1 item; Gloria Swanson - 4 items; Elizabeth Taylor - 4 items; Nancy Walker - 5 items; The Big Lift - 30 items; Freud - 2 items; From Here to Eternity - 1 item; Jubilee - 14 items; Judgment at Nuremberg - 1 item; Lonelyhearts - 2 items; The Misfits - 31 items; Raintree County - 4 items; Suddenly Last Summer - 4 items; Wild River - 8 items; The Young Lions - 1 item; *T-Pho C: Montgomery Clift - 15 items; Buster Keaton - 1 item; Kevin McCarthy - 1 item; Ben Piazza- 2 items; Freud - 8 items; From Here to Eternity - 1 item; Jubilee - 2 items; Judgement at Nuremberg - 1 item; The Misfits - 2 items; Mavourneen - i item; Red River - 1 item; The Young Lions - 1 item; Yr. Obedient Husband - 1 item."}
processinfo: {"value"=>"Processed by Ramon Cabrera. The collection was conserved, rehoused, and reprocessed in 1995. Clippings and scrapbooks were photocopied for conservation purposes."}
relatedmaterial: {"value"=>"Fourteen 16mm films featuring Clift were transferred to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The titles included: The Big Lift, The Defector, From Here to Eternity, The Heiress, I Confess, Indiscretion of an American Wife, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Misfits, A Place in the Sun, The Search, Suddenly Last Summer, Wild River, William Faulkner's Mississippi, and The Young Lions."}
sponsor: {"value"=>"Encoding of the finding aid sponsored by grant funding from The Gladys Krieble\n Delmas Foundation. "}
revisiondesc: {"value"=>"Detailed descriptions updated and revised; agent links expanded; separated materials\n edited", "date"=>"2024-08"}
date_start: 1933
keydate: 1933
date_end: 1966
date_inclusive_start: 1933
date_inclusive_end: 1966
extent_statement: 11 linear feet (31 boxes and 1 oversized folder)
prefercite: {"value"=>"Montgomery Clift papers, *T-Mss 1967-006. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}

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