Montgomery Clift
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==Edward Montgomery Clift== | ==Edward Montgomery Clift== | ||
| − | Montgomery Clift was born 17 Oct 1920, several hours after his twin sister Roberta "Sister", in Omaha, Douglas County, [[Nebraska]] — the son of [[#William Brooks Clift|William Brooks "Bill" Clift]] and his wife [[#Ethel Blair|Ethel 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 Roberta "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 always called his twin "Sister". She is called Ethel in her father's obituary, it's not clear yet if she was actually known by that, or if that's a mistake. Most mentions of her in biographies, call her Roberta. | + | 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 Rebecca, Montgomery always called his twin "Sister". She is called Ethel in her father's obituary, it's not clear yet if she was actually known by that, or if that's a mistake. Most mentions of her in biographies, call her Roberta. Their brother was William Brooks Montgomery, Jr but he is most often simply called Brooks. |
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| + | 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. | ||
An interesting sidenote is that Montgomery's niece Suzanne Clift, daughter of his brother Brooks, 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. | An interesting sidenote is that Montgomery's niece Suzanne Clift, daughter of his brother Brooks, 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. | ||
