Patricia Bosworth’s 1978 biography, Montgomery Clift is a remarkable book.
At one point, we hear Monty on a phone call with a journalist, who seems to imply that he leads a “murky life.” “That sounds so fucking dismal, I must say,” Monty replies. “Making Montgomery Clift” Is a Fascinating Study of the Ethics of Biography | The New Yorker Michael Schulman reviews the documentary “Making Montgomery Clift,” directed by Robert Clift and Hillary Demmon, which explores the ethics of biography. In Lovecraft’s stories, sailors, lonely academics, and sorcerers—all of whom can be read as gay—lurk on the outskirts of civilization.Aubrey Beardsley was an artist whose name comes up frequently in many of the books written about Oscar Wilde.
In the end, it’s a good portrait of Montgomery Clift as well. Our staff and contributors share their latest enthusiasms in books, music, podcasts, movies, TV, and more.I first saw “Making Montgomery Clift” last summer, at the Provincetown International Film Festival, and was rapt. The facts of Beardsley’s life are not nearly as well-known as those of Wilde’s, but their fates were inextricably intertwined.The militantly Protestant poet Agrippa d’Aubigné packed his libels with a medley of concrete and sensual metaphors, which converge in a hideously distorted portrait of Henri. Michael Schulman reviews the documentary “Making Montgomery Clift,” directed by Robert Clift and Hillary Demmon, which explores the ethics of biography. The anathema uttered by D’Aubigné’s “poetics of the monstrous” is laid upon Henri’s mignons as well ...Beardsley always denied allegations of homosexuality, but when Wilde was arrested and charged with sodomy, he was said to be carrying a copy of The Yellow Book. “Making Montgomery Clift” Is a Fascinating Study of the Ethics of Biography. Nah. According to his family, Monty was bisexual, and there was no torment involved. He was not closeted among loved ones, but he was also not interested in being stripped of his ability to work and live. But the documentary is fascinating on its own peculiar terms, especially for anyone who loves or writes Hollywood history. In the seventies, two books appeared about Clift—one a pop-Freudian scandal sheet, by Robert LaGuardia, and the other a more respectful portrait, by Patricia Bosworth, who had the coöperation of Monty’s brother (and Robert’s father) Brooks Clift. Indeed many people thought they found it in his drawings, such as The Examination of the Herald … It’s an intriguing idea, but the documentary takes a sharp turn toward a more niche subject: the ethics of biography. Not only does she make Clift’s life a harrowing, cautionary tale, but Bosworth also gives us an appreciation for one of the mid-twentieth century’s greatest acting talents. So I was surprised to see, months later, that it had been quietly released on demand. One wonders whether a more conventional film—one that upheld the image of gay self-loathing—might have had wider distribution. Beardsley found his work under increasing scrutiny as people looked for evidence of homosexuality. He was quite open about his affairs with men (there were also a few women), and, unlike actors such as Rock Hudson, he refused to compromise and pretend to be straight. Making Montgomery Clift is most preoccupied with detaching Monty from an especially harmful myth: that his homosexuality tormented him.

The 1890s were, after all, later dubbed the Beardsley Period. “I can’t say I am just melancholy or I am just sad or I am just anything.” Montgomery Clift So, myth number one: that Clift was a closet homo who took pains to hide his secret life.

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