Montgomery Clift
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====Suzanne Clift==== | ====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 recent report in ''The Boston Globe'' in 2000. 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...." 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. | 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 recent report in ''The Boston Globe'' in 2000. 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...." 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. | ||
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| + | ===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=== | ===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 viewed by psychiatrists as abnormal. There is no evidence that he had a sexual relationship with [[Elizabeth Taylor]], but they were very close. Similarly it is very unlikely that he had a sexual relationship with [[James Dean]] or [[Rock Hudson]]. The situation with [[Roddy McDowell]] is ambiguous. They were close friends, but other than that I'm not sure. | + | 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 viewed by psychiatrists as abnormal. There is no evidence that he had a sexual relationship with [[Elizabeth Taylor]], but they were very close friends. 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. |
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| + | Similarly it is very unlikely that he had a sexual relationship with [[James Dean]] or [[Rock Hudson]]. 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]], Patricia Bosworth believes it was sexual. | + | 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. |
===Death=== | ===Death=== | ||
