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'''Montgomery Clift''', actor (1920 Omaha, NE - 1966 New York City) This page writen and copyright 2008 by Will Johnson, Professional Genealogist. This page is locked, if you'd like to comment on it, you may email me at [mailto:wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com]. Note: This page is not FINISHED. It's being worked on. So you might find a lot of rough edges still. http://www.montyclift.com/shrine/images/theatre1.gif http://www.montyclift.com/shrine/images/9monty.jpg http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/clift.jpg ==Edward Montgomery Clift== ===Early life=== Montgomery Clift was born 17 Oct 1920, several hours after his twin sister Rebecca Ethel "Sister", in Omaha, Douglas County, [[Nebraska]] — the son of [[#William Brooks Clift|William Brooks "Bill" Clift]] and his wife [[#Ethel Blair|Ethel "Sunny" Blair]]. Montgomery's father was at that time the vice-president of Omaha National Bank. William and Ethel also had one other child, an older son Brooks Clift born 18 months earlier. A note about names. Montgomery's mother, always called "Sunny" by her relations, was adopted at birth. Her father was a Blair, her mother an Anderson, her adoptive family were Foggs. The curious circumstances of her birth (explained under her own entry below) explain the confusion in various sources regarding what to call her. As for Montgomery's sister, Montgomery always called his twin "Sister". She is called Ethel in her father's obituary. Most mentions of her in biographies, probably following the lead of Patricia Bosworth call her Roberta. But Bosworth only uses this name at her birth, later calling her Ethel as she was apparently later known. In the Ships Lists extracted below, she is called Rebecca, but in the Texas Birth Index for her children, she as mother, is called Ethel. Their brother was named William Brooks Montgomery, Jr but he is most often simply called Brooks. Montgomery and his two siblings were educated at home by his mother and private tutors. Sunny, reportedly told, at the age of 18, that she had aristocratic bloodlines, decided to raise and educate her children in a peculiar fashion. They spent quite a lot of time in Europe as Sunny believed this was the way "throughbred" children were raised, as she called them. She tried to instill the idea in her children that they were of-a-higher-class and must not mix with the common people. She would say "who is his family, what's his genealogy" when deciding on a new friend for herself or her children. Several people having met Montgomery and the family during this period, came away with the impression that he was quite a snob, as was his mother. Montgomery's father did not accompany them on these trips to Europe and possibly the impression might be raised that he was detached. But his letters as Patricia Bosworth points-out use phrases like "I miss you terribly when you're away, but mother knows best." ===Career=== His article at the Encyclopedia Britannica Online states : "American motion-picture actor noted for the emotional depth and sense of vulnerability he brought to his roles. Along with Marlon Brando and James Dean, he helped delineate a new paradigm for American cinematic heroes." Montgomery's first professional stage appearance was at the age of 12 in a local theater production of ''As Husbands Go'' in Sarasota, [[Florida]]. His mother, realizing his potential, moved the family back to New York City, [[New York]] where he began appearing regularly on Broadway. After several favorable reviews, Hollywood wanted him, but he rejected many offers looking for just the right vehicle. This would be a constant theme in Clift's career — that he refused to perform in "trashy" productions, which to his mind, were most of them, only seeking the very best which he thought could show his talent and range without typecasting him. His first film appearences were in 1948 in ''Red River'' with John Wayne and also that same year in ''The Search'' for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He appeared opposite [[Elizabeth Taylor]] and [Shelley Winters]] in 1951's ''A Place in the Sun'' and later appeared in 1953's ''From Here to Eternity'', getting Academy Award nominations for both. While filming the 1957 ''Raintree County'' Montgomery had a serious car accident which permanently damaged his looks. His continued to work, but his appeal had now changed. He appeared in 1961's ''The Misfits'' and ''Judgement at Nuremburg'' for which again he received an Academy Award nomination. Despite four nominations, Montgomery Clift never received an Academy Award. ===Family=== Montgomery, while growing, was very close to his twin Ethel, but she married lawyer Robert Campbell McGinnis (1918-95), moving first to Dallas County where she had two children: Mary Blair McGinnis 1946, and Edward Campbell McGinnis 1948. And then moving to Austin, Travis County where she had her last three: John Montgomery McGinnis 1949, Michael James McGinnis 1953, and Robert Clift McGinnis 1952. Montgomery meanwhile continued to live mostly in New York City, even while appearing at times in Hollywood movies. He lived for a few months at a time in the Hollywood area while working in film, and like most actors, occasionally on-location wherever they happened to be shooting. He did on-occasion visit his twin at her home in Austin. Ethel McGinnis appears in an interview about him, many years after his death. Montgomery both loved and hated his mother. He found her controlling and interfering, but still visited her often. Montgomery's father was an affable person, but distant and weak-willed when it came to exerting family power against his wife. The Clifts lived in New York City until Mr Clift died in 1964. Then at some point prior to her own death, Ethel moved to Austin, Texas where her daughter Ethel lived. ====Brooks Clift==== William Brooks Clift, Jr was born 4 Feb 1919 in Omaha, [[Nebraska]]. He was mostly called "Brooks" to distinguish him from his father. The family lived at times in Chicago, and New York and also Brooks with his mother and siblings lived in Europe for months at a time while growing up. Brooks was at times an actor, producer and exporter. When his eldest child Suzanne was born in 1941 Brooks lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey as she is called "a native of that place, but raised in Boston from infancy." They also had another daughter Cathy who was "raised virtually by her grandmother [Ethel]". And they had a son William, who is called age 18 in 1962. It's not yet clear when Brooks and his first wife divorced, but it was before 1962 when she is described as already remarried to Peter Thomson "a Boston engineer". In 1951 Brooks is mentioned as the producer of NBC-TV's "Home" show. Brooks also had three children by his second wife Eleanor Clift (b. 7 Jul 1940) the noted author and columnist. Those children were Edward Montgomery Clift, Woodbury Blair Clift and Robert Anderson Clift. Eleanor's NNDB entry [http://www.nndb.com/people/227/000117873/ here] states that Brooks died in 1986. In newspaper accounts dated 1962, Brooks is called a "movie and television producer in New York". Brooks, taking up his mother's passion in genealogy, has done extensive research on the family, according to Monty's biographer Patricia Bosworth. In 1967 Brooks was in a movie called "Vice Girls, Ltd". In an article dated 20 Aug 1975 in the ''Anderson Daily Bulletin'' by syndicated columnist Dorothy Manners she states that Brooks "a resident of Atlanta, Ga. with mostly TV commercials to his credit" did a good screen test and landed the part of a white baseball team owner who is the first to sign a black player in the 1930s. The Universal picture was called "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings", the executive producer was stated to be "boss of Motown" Berry Gordy. ====Suzanne Clift==== An interesting sidenote is that one of Brook's children Suzanne Clift, when she was 21, pled guilty to manslaughter in the 1 Oct 1962, murder of her boyfriend, Piero Brentani, a Swiss-Italian electronics engineer. She shot him in the head and castrated him, according to the 2000 report in ''The Boston Globe''. In newspaper reports of the time, it does not mention that he was castrated. Suzanne's mother is called "Mrs Peter Thompson, divorced and remarried....", while her father "William Brooks Clift Jr" is called a "movie and television producer in New York". Suzanne was put in jail without bail, and a month later while still being held, it was discovered that she was pregnant. Suzanne was committed, during her trial, to the Massachusetts Mental Health Center for tests to determine her mental state. She offered to plead guilty to manslaughter and related to the judge that her boyfriend had told her he would never marry her. She however was "hopelessly in love" and due to bear his child. "I never told him because I knew his feelings. He told me if I ever became pregnant, I would have to have an abortion." She was sentenced to indefinite but voluntary incarceration at the Mental Health Center and ten years probation. In June she gave birth to a baby girl. ===Booze and Drugs=== Monty drank substantially, several times mentioned as "falling down drunk", but while he was working on a film or play he was very focused on the material and not drunk. In addition he took a quantity of drugs, mostly uppers and tranquilizers. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that he used cocaine, marijuana or heroin. Evidently preferring his drugs in pill-form. ===Sexuality=== Montgomery Clift certainly had sexual relationships with both men and women. He has been described as having a very tortured life. Being gay or bisexual in the 1940's and 50's was almost universally viewed by psychiatrists as a mental abnormality. There is scant evidence that he had a sexual relationship with [[Elizabeth Taylor]], but they were very close friends. C. David Heymann in his biography of Elizabeth states that Monty's personal secretary at least a few times found them in bed like "sleepy siamese kittens". However Monty told another friend that when he and Liz tried to have sex he "couldn't rise to the occasion". Elizabeth is supposed to have asked Monty to marry her, and just before her second marriage, which was to Michael Wilding, she phoned him, and again asked him to marry her. Similarly it is very unlikely that he had a sexual relationship with [[James Dean]] who he called "weird". Montgomery however was one of James Dean's idols and Jimmy sometimes called Monty "just to hear his voice". The situation with [[Roddy McDowell]] is ambiguous. They were close friends, but other than that I'm not sure. Patricia often mentions Monty and Roddy, and others getting together to do this or that event. About his relationship with [[Libby Holman]], an older mother-figure, Patricia Bosworth believes it was sexual. Monty certainly stated that it was, during his life. Patricia mentions several male lovers, including some who lived-in, but she does so without naming them. She does however allude to details which it may be possible to track to find out today who they were. Monty is quoted as saying "I love men in bed, but I really love women!" His closest relationships were either to couples like the Greenes and the McCarthys, or to women seperatly such as Nancy Walker and Myrna Loy. ===Death=== Montgomery Clift died of a heart attack in his New York City townhouse 23 Jul 1966, age 45. His early death may have been exascerbated by his drinking and drug use. The official cause of death however being heart failure caused by occlusion of the arteries. He was buried at Quaker Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. ===Primary sources for 1=== *[http://content.ancestry.com/browse/view.aspx?dbid=7235&iid=NEWS-MD-FR_PO.1966_07_27_0016&rc=4643,979,4742,1016;4171,1021,4270,1058&pid=506719248&ssrc=&fn=Ethel&ln=Clift&st=g ''The Frederick Post'' (Frederick, Maryland), 27 Jul 1966], "Montgomery Clift, Actor, Dead at 45" : "New York (AP) — A funeral service was held Tuesday for actor Montgomery Clift. Clift, 45, was stricken Saturday with a coronary caused by hardening of the arteries. He died in his Manhattan apartment. Born in Omaha, Neb., Clift started his acting career at age 13 in an amateur production in Sarasota, Fla. A year later he was on Broadway in 'Fly Away Home' starring Thomas Mitchell. In all, Clift appeared in 13 Broadway plays. Clift shunned the glamor of Hollywood, staying there only long enough to make pictures. Among the 10 movies in which he starred he was nominated for an Academy Award in 'The Search', 'From Here to Eternity' and 'A Place in the Sun.' However he never won an award. Clift, who never married, is survived by his mother, Ethel Clift of New York City; a brother, Brooks of Atlanta, Ga., and a sister Ethel McGinnis of Austin, Tex." ===Secondary sources for 1=== *[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/121539/Montgomery-Clift "Montgomery Clift"], Encyclopedia Britannica *''Montgomery Clift'', by Patricia Bosworth (1978) *[http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/c/Montgomery%20Clift/montgomery_clift.htm "Montgomery Clift"] at Findadeath.com ===See Also=== *[http://www.nypl.org/research/manuscripts/the/theboswo.xml Guide to the Patricia Bosworth papers] ==William Brooks Clift== William Brooks "Bill" Clift was born 18 Dec 1886 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, [[Tennessee]], the son of [[#Moses Haney Clift|Moses Haney Clift]] by his wife [[#Florence Virginia Parrot|Florence Virginia Parrot]]. Bill was the youngest child of six siblings. He went to Cornell University, New Jersey in 1908 and served four years as a captain in the infantry while going to college. In 1910 while they were both at Cornell he met [[#Ethel Blair|Ethel Blair]]. He graduated in 1912 with a degree in engineering, while she stayed on to finish her own degree. They became engaged during her senior year at Cornell. They were married in October 1914, and lived firstly in Saltillo, [[Mississippi]] where Bill had a job building dams. Sunny encouraged Bill to leave engineering and become a banker. By 1917 he had become a bond salesman for National City Company of Chicago, [[Illinois]], and lists his residence as Nashville, Tennessee. He had blue eyes, and dark brown hair. They moved to Omaha, [[Nebraska]] where their first child William Brooks Clift Jr was born 4 Feb 1919 and where William was nominated for the vice-presidency of the Omaha National Bank and the family moved to Omaha, Nebraska where their twins Montgomery and Ethel were born in 1920. After several hard-scrabble year, in Omaha they lived in a three-story house with stained-glass windows, a maid and a nurse. When Ethel was pregnant with Brooks, she had to lie immobile for three weeks to save the baby at the end of her pregnancy. Emma Wilke, then head of nursing, admiring Ethel's strength, then became the private nurse to the Clift family and stayed with the family until Brooks went off to college. In 1924, Bill "obtained a more lucrative position as sales manager of Ames Emerich Investment Company" in Chicago. The family moved to a large house in Highland Park and Bill began making a substanial amount of money. During this period Sunny's restless nature kept her and the children on the move, traveling to New England, Bermuda, Europe and back to the United States. Since Bill's occupation kept him traveling to Manhattan often, they also took a house in Yorktown Heights, New York. Bill had several occupations over his lifetime: engineer, bond salesman, banker, insurance salesman, and stock broker. He was a bit long-suffering, while Ethel and the children spent months in Europe and also in Florida, Bill continued to live and work in New York City. Ethel worked as well, but it's quite likely that it was Bill who footed most of the bills. Ethel has been described as wearing the pants in the family, and Bill often deferred to her, especially in regard to their children. He died 24 Feb 1964 of a heart attack, at New York Hospital, New York City, [[New York]]. At the time of his death, he and his wife were living in New York City, while Brooks may have already been living in Atlanta, Georgia (where he was in 1966) and Ethel, the wife of lawyer Robert Campbell McGinnis (1918-95) was then living in Austin, Texas. ===Primary Sources for 2=== *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1900usfedcen%2c&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=Moses&gsln=Clift&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=3&recid=65299067&recoff=1+3 1900 Census of Chattanooga Ward 6, Hamilton County, Tennessee] *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=William&gsln=Clift&sx=&f7=&f9=&f10=&f18__n=&f20=&rg_81004011__date=&rs_81004011__date=0&f23=&f17=&f16=&rg_f19__date=&rs_f19__date=0&_8000C002=&f21=&_80008002=&f22=&_80018002=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1910uscenindex&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=69&recid=78972088&recoff=14+16&fsk=CIAAHswDwiio&bsk=&pgoff= 1910 Census of Chattanooga Ward 6, Hamilton County, Tennessee] *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6482&iid=TN-1877598-3887&fn=William+Brooks&ln=Clift&st=r&ssrc=&pid=28200957 ''World War I Draft Registration Cards''] : "William Brooks Clift; resident of 120 24th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee; born 18 Dec 1886 in Chattanooga, Tenn; bond salesman for National City Co. of 137 South LaSalle, Chicago; married; Capt. Infantry, 4 years, Cornell University, NJ; claims exemption because of Support of Wife; Signed W B Clift; Medium height, slender build, blue eyes, dark brown hair, no disabilities; signed by City Clerk Chicago IL, but recorded at Nashville 5 June 1917" *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=50000&iid=106940916&fn=Ethel&ln=Clift&st=d&ssrc=&pid=993833 ''New York Times'', 26 Feb 1964], Obituary, "William B Clift, 78, Investment Broker" : "William B Clift, a Wall Street investment broker and the father of Montgomery Clift, the actor, died of a heart attack Monday in New York Hospital at the age of 78. He lived at 460 East 79th Street. At his death Mr Clift was a registered representative of Jesup & Lamont, 26 Broadway, members of the New York Stock Exchange. He was born in Chattanooga and was a graduate of Cornell University. In New York he was a partner in the New York Stock Exchange firm of Ames, Emmerich & Co., was associated with the exchange firm of Tucker, Anthony & R.L. Day and, from 1956 to 1962, was a partner in the exchange firm of Theodore Tsolainos & Co. Surviving besides his son Montgomery, are his widow, Mrs. Ethel Fogg Clift; another son, William Jr.; a daughter, Mrs. Robert C. McGinnis; a brother, Rhotan; a sister, Mrs. Florence Horton, and nine grandchildren." ===Secondary sources for 2=== *''Montgomery Clift'', by Patricia Bosworth (1978) *[http://content.ancestry.com/browse/bookview.aspx?dbid=22986&iid=dvm_LocHist008401-00518-0&desc=Ethel+Clift&rc=1047%2c647%2c1236%2c705%3b1234%2c651%2c1402%2c706 ''The history of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee''], by ... page 248 : "William Brooks Clift, who married Ethel Fogg, of Philadelphia, PA. They have three children: William Brooks Clift, Jr, Ethel Clift, and Montgomery Clift." (see also [http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=22986&iid=dvm_LocHist008401-00517-1&sid=&gskw=Ethel+Clift&cr=1 page 247] : "Major Clift's second wife was Florence V Parrott....") ==Ethel Blair== A remarkable story is related by Patricia Bosworth in her biography of Montgomery Clift about his mother's birth. According to her report, she was told that Ethel "Sunny" had been born from the union of Woodbury "Woody" Blair and Maria "Bobbie" Anderson. Maria had formed an attachment to Woodbury, but Maria's mother Elizabeth disapproved of the relationship. Maria and Woodbury continued meeting without her mother's approval and eventually married secretly. When her mother learned about the marriage, she either had it annuled, or forced Maria to do so. She then kept Maria a virtual prisoner, sometimes guarded by her sister Sophie. Maria however had already became pregnant. When it came time for the child's birth, they moved in the Summer of 1888 to Philadelphia, [[Pennsylvania]] where she gave birth on 29 Sep 1888. The birth certificate, according to Patricia Bosworth, records her parents as "Sophie and Frank Adams". Her mother forced Maria to agree to give the child up for adoption. Sophia Anderson, Maria's sister is reported to have told Sunny decades later, that Woodbury Blair was never told of his wife's pregnancy or the birth of their child. The doctor who delivered the child, Edward E Montgomery, kept her for a year, and finally she was adopted by the Charles Fogg family of Germantown. When Sunny was 18, she went to Cornell on a scholarship. It was then that Dr. Montgomery told her this story of her birth. The Blair family never accepted this story, at least they had not by the time of Patrica's book in 1978, calling it "hogwash" according to her report. The Anderson family did accept the story, at least some of them. Sunny never met her mother, although she apparently wrote letters that were never answered. Recent research indicates that her mother Maria lived until 1925, her father until 1933, while Sunny's grandmother Elizabeth had died in 1905. This leaves on the table, the odd question of why her mother and father, who outlived the supposed "evil grandmother" by 20 years, did not contact Sunny. Something about the story passed down, doesn't quite ring true. If Maria was being "held prisoner" this certainly ended by 1905. Another rather interesting note, is that after I'd rapidly skimmed the list of contents of the "Patricia Bosworth papers" I saw no references to any member of the Blair or the Anderson family. I find that a bit too odd. If you, as an author, had heard such a bizarre story, wouldn't you follow it up to try to learn it's veracity? If you, as a mother were "determined" to be acknowledged by your relatives, wouldn't you actually simply go to Washington DC and pester them directly in person, instead of writing dozens of letters that go unanswered? Knowing that your father and mother are yet living? I'm fairly skeptical of something here... I'm just not quite sure what yet. Ethel married in Oct 1914 to [[#William Brooks Clift|William Brooks Clift]] who she had met while both were at Cornell University in New Jersey. The family apparently traveled to various places as Bill was firstly an engineer and then a traveling bond salesman. They reportedly had several hard years before he was nominated as vice-president of Omaha National Bank. By 1919 they were living in Omaha, Nebraska and now well-off with a three-story house with stained glass, a private maid and nurse Emma Wilke. It was here that their eldest son William Brooks Clift Jr was born in Feb of that year, and toward the end of the following year Ethel had twins Montgomery and Roberta. When Montgomery Clift died in 1966, his mother Ethel was then living in New York City, while her daughter Rebecca, then married to Robert C McGinnis was living in Austin, Texas. Ethel died in 1988 in Austin, Travis County, [[Texas]], probably living with or near her daughter. ===Primary sources for 3=== *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&db=1900usfedcen%2c&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=Charles&gsln=Fogg&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=93&recid=60816542&recoff=1+2&fsk=CIAAHbIBe-43-9e&bsk=&pgoff= 1900 Census of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania] *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1910USCenIndex%2c&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=Ethel&gsln=Fogg&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=20&recid=73507095&recoff=1+2 1910 Census of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania] *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6482&iid=TN-1877598-3887&fn=William+Brooks&ln=Clift&st=r&ssrc=&pid=28200957 ''World War I Draft Registration Cards''] : "William Brooks Clift; resident of 120 24th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee; born 18 Dec 1886 in Chattanooga, Tenn; bond salesman for National City Co. of 137 South LaSalle, Chicago; married; Capt. Infantry, 4 years, Cornell University, NJ; claims exemption because of Support of Wife; Signed W B Clift; Medium height, slender build, blue eyes, dark brown hair, no disabilities; signed by City Clerk Chicago IL, but recorded at Nashville 5 June 1917" *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_3792-0206&fn=Ethel&ln=Clift&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2001939314 ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957''], Sailing on the "Fort Victoria" out of Hamilton, Bermuda on 30 Jan 1926, arriving New York 1 Feb 1926 : "Ethel Clift, 30, born 1895, Phildelphia, PA, address Yorktown Heights, New York" *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_3859-0412&fn=Ethel&ln=Clift&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2002369432 ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957''], Sailing on the "Fort Victoria" out of Hamilton, Bermuda on 29 May 1926, arriving New York 31 May 1926 : "Ethel Clift, 32, born 1894 New York, living at Southill, Yorktown Heights, New York; W Brooks Clift, age 7, born 1919 Omaha NE; Roberta Clift, age 5, born 1921 Omaha NE; Montgomery Clift, age 5, born 1921 Omaha NE; Emma Wilke, 40, single, born 1886, Chicago IL, living at Southill, Yorktown Heights, New York" *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_4052-0055-1&fn=Ethel&ln=Clift&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2000278960 ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957''], Sailing on the "Fort Victoria" out of Hamilton, Bermuda on 7 May 1927, arriving New York 9 May 1927 : "Ethel Clift, 34, born 1893 Yorktown Heights, NY, residence Yorktown Heights, NY; Brooks Clift, 8, born 1919 Omaha, NE; Edward Clift, 6, born 1921 Omaha, NE; Roberta Clift, 6, born 1921 Omaha, NE; Emma Wilkie, 44, born 1883 Chicago, IL" *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_4832-0024&fn=Ethel&ln=Clift&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2040121051 ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957''], Sailing on the "Bremen" 16 Sep 1930 out of Bremen, arriving at New York 22 Sep 1930 : "Ethel Clift, born 29 Sep 1892 Philadelphia PA, residence 1400 Dearborn Street Chicago, IL; Brooks Clift, born 4 Feb 1919 Omaha NE; Montgomery Clift born 16 Oct 1920 Omaha, NE; Ethel Clift, born 16 Oct 1920 Omaha, NE; Emma Wilke, born 6 Feb 1885, Detroit, IL [as found]" *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_5073-0019&fn=Ethel&ln=Clift&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2014454558 ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957''], Sailing on the "Conte Grande" out of Genoa 6 Nov 1931, arriving New York 16 Nov 1931 : "Ethel Clift, born 29 Sep 1892 Philadelphia, PA, residence 44 Wall Street, New York; Brooks Clift, born 4 Feb 1919 Omaha, NE; Ethel Clift born 6 Jun 1922 Omaha, NE; Montgomery Clift, born 6 Jun 1922 Omaha, NE....Emma Wilke, born 6 Feb 1885 Beecher, IL, resident 44 Wall Street New York" *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=ssdi%2c&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=ethel&gsln=clift&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=34&fh=0&recid=13267915&recoff=1+2 ''Social Security Death Index''] : "Ethel Clift, born 29 Sep 1892 [as found], SSN issued by New York (1964-65), died 27 Jun 1988, last residence Austin, Travis County, Texas" ===Secondary sources for 3=== *''Montgomery Clift'', by Patricia Bosworth (1978) *[http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/pedigree.aspx?pid=24837836&st=1 "Ethel Fogg"] on OneWorldTree ===See Also=== *[http://www.nypl.org/research/manuscripts/the/theboswo.xml Guide to the Patricia Bosworth papers] ==Moses Haney Clift== Col. Moses Haney Clift was born 25 Aug 1836 in Soddy, [[Tennessee]], the son of [[#William Clift|Col William Clift]] and his wife [[#Nancy Erwin Brooks|Nancy Erwin Brooks]]. He served as a Confederate soldier in the U.S. Civil War. Shortly afterward moving from Nashvill to Chattanooga. Moses married firstly to Charlotte Attaline "Attie" Cook on 16 Sep 1866 in Monroe County, Tennessee. They had three or four children, before her death in 1876 in Chattanooga, aged 29. He married secondly to Florence Virginia Parrot (a native of Catersville, Georgia) on 28 Jun 1883 in Hamilton County, Tennessee. They had three more children. The youngest child of Moses was [[#William Brooks Clift|William Brooks Clift]], father of actor Montgomery Clift. Moses became a lawyer and eventually president of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. He died 3 Dec 1911 and was buried in his gray uniform in the Chattanooga Confederate Cemetery. ===Primary sources for 4=== *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1870usfedcen%2c&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=Moses&gsln=Clift&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=1&recid=35489330&recoff=1+3 1870 Census of Chattanooga Ward 4, Hamilton County, Tennessee] ===Secondary sources for 4=== *[http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/pedigree.aspx?pid=16380264&st=1 "Moses Haney Clift"] on OneWorldTree ==Florence Virginia Parrot== Florence Virginia "Flo" Parrot. ==Woodbury Blair== Woodbury Blair was born 1 Sep 1852 at St Louis, [[Missouri]], but six months after his birth, his parents relocated back in [[Maryland]]. He became a lawyer. The story related by Patricia Bosworth in her biography of Montgomery Clift, states that Woodbury's first wife, albeit by an elopement, and shortly thereafter annuled, was Maria "Bobbie" Anderson. By this union, they had one child Ethel who was given up at birth and adopted by the Fogg family, although Woodbury never knew this child existed. His wife, or ex-wife, was kept in confinement by her own mother until the child's birth. The Blair family, according to Patricia's report never accepted this story as true. On 6 Jul 1907, Woodbury, then aged 54 married to Emily Wallach, aged 38. Woodbury Blair died 14 Oct 1933 at Emergency Hospital, [[Washington DC]]. They had some connection as well to Newport, [[Rhode Island]] as his obit instructs newspapers of that place to copy. ===Primary sources for 6=== *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1870usfedcen%2c&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=Woodbury&gsln=Blair&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=0&recid=13906959&recoff=1+2 1870 Census of Sandy Spring PO, District 5, Montgomery County, Maryland] showing Woodbury at age 18 living with his parents. *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1880usfedcen%2c&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=Woodbury&gsln=Blair&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=0&recid=45351496&recoff=1+2 1880 Census of Washington, Washington County, District of Columbia] showing Woodbury at age 28 living with his parents *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1900usfedcen%2c&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=Woodbury&gsln=Blair&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=0&recid=6535557&recoff=1+2 1900 Census of Washington, Washington County, District of Columbia] showing Woodbury at age 49 living with his sister, brother-in-law, and brother and servants *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=50000&iid=280377682&fn=Emily&ln=Blair&st=d&ssrc=&pid=348933 ''Washington Post'', 7 Jul 1907], "Licensed to Marry" : "...Woodbury Blair 54, and Emily N Wallach, 38. Rev Charles E Buck" *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=Emily&gsln=Blair&sx=y&f8=&f9=&f10=&f20=&rg_fa5__date=&rs_fa5__date=0&f16__n=&rg_f19__date=&rs_f19__date=0&f18=&fa20=&f21=&fa18=&f22=&fa14=&gskw=&prox=1&db=1920usfedcen&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=35&fh=14&recid=10671462&recoff=1+2 1920 Census of Washington, Washington County, District of Columbia] showing "Woodfurdy" at age 65 with his wife Emily age 60 and several servants *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=50000&iid=237130712&fn=Emily&ln=Blair&st=d&ssrc=&pid=1179216 ''Washington Post''], "Died" : "Blair — On Saturday Oct 14, 1933 at 8 pm at Emergency Hospital, Woodbury, beloved husband of Emily Wallace Blair. Notice of funeral hereafter (Newport, R.I. papers, please copy.) ===Secondary sources for 6=== *[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=26294&iid=dvm_LocHist010948-01220-0&sid=&gskw=Woodbury+Blair&cr=1 ''Washington past and present: A history''], Vol IV, page 632 : "Woodbury Blair, eldest of the three sons of Montgomery and Mary Elizabeth (Woodbury) Blair, was born at St Louis, Missouri 1 Sep 1852....On 6 Jul 1907, Woodbury Blair was married to Emily N. Wallach, daughter of Richard Wallach, a former Mayor of Washington. They have no chidren." *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=bgmi&so=2&rank=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=Woodbury&gsln=Blair&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-b the BGMI] cites: **Encyclopedia of American Biography. New Series. Volume 3. New York: American Historical Society, . Use the Index to locate biographies. (EncAB-A 3) Biography contains portrait. **The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 25. New York: James T. White & Co., 1936. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 25) ==Maria Latham Anderson== ==William Clift== Col. William Clift owned 45,000 acres in Soddy, [[Tennessee]]. The land, rich in iron ore and timber made him a millionaire by the time he was thirty, according to the biography of Montgomery Clift by Patricia Bosworth. William served on the Union side in the U.S. Civil War. ==Nancy Erwin Brooks== [[Category:Child Actors]] [[Category:California]] [[Category:Famous Men]] [[Category:Nebraska]] [[Category:New York]] [[Category:Tennessee]] [[Category:Texas]] [[Category:Movies and Television]]
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