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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 Blair and Maria Anderson. Maria had formed an attachment to Woodbury, but her mother 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 had it or forced Maria to have it annulled. | 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 Blair and Maria Anderson. Maria had formed an attachment to Woodbury, but her mother 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 had it or forced Maria to have it annulled. | ||
| − | Either during this period or shortly afterward Maria became pregnant. When it came time for the child's birth, they went away and she gave birth in Philadelphia, [[Pennsylvania]] 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. She would not | + | Either during this period or shortly afterward Maria became pregnant. When it came time for the child's birth, they went away and she gave birth in Philadelphia, [[Pennsylvania]] 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. She would not be told this story of her birth until she was 18, by Dr. Montgomery. 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. |
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| + | When Sunny was 18, she went to Cornell on a scholarship. | ||
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