Montgomery Clift
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==Edward Montgomery Clift== | ==Edward Montgomery Clift== | ||
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| − | Montgomery Clift was born 17 Oct 1920, several hours after his twin sister 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. | + | 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" 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 | + | 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 convinced that she had aristocratic bloodlines, decided to raise and educate her children in a peculiar fashion. So they spent quite a lot of time in Europe as Sunny believed this was the way "throughbred" children were raised. She tried to instill the idea in her children that they were of-a-higher-class and must not mix with the common people. Several people having met Montgomery during this period, came away with the impression that he was quite a snob. | Montgomery and his two siblings were educated at home by his mother and private tutors. Sunny, reportedly convinced that she had aristocratic bloodlines, decided to raise and educate her children in a peculiar fashion. So they spent quite a lot of time in Europe as Sunny believed this was the way "throughbred" children were raised. She tried to instill the idea in her children that they were of-a-higher-class and must not mix with the common people. Several people having met Montgomery during this period, came away with the impression that he was quite a snob. | ||
