Lost in Beauty
Michael Newton: Montgomery Clift, 7 October 2010
The Passion of Montgomery Clift
by Amy Lawrence.
California, 333 pp., £16.95, May 2010,978 0 520 26047 4 Show More
by Amy Lawrence.
California, 333 pp., £16.95, May 2010,
“... also a long-standing American paradigm, from Natty Bumppo to the Ringo Kid, from Captain Ahab to Marlowe; in this sense, Clift’s type was just the latest variant on a character already dear to Hollywood. Indeed, as Lawrence remarks, in the first half of his career Clift’s generational struggle was as much about fitting in as rebelling; he was a defiant ... ”