Montgomery Clift
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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 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. | ||
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| + | 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." | ||
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