Alongside of this was Clift’s brilliant early career, when his virtuosity stunned pretty much everyone who knew him. At the end, he was almost a recluse, drinking himself into oblivion, and cruising the docks of New York City for “trade”. Told elegantly, with great compassion, but without avoidance. It is not only focused on one thing (Clift’s homosexuality – you know how so many books have one point to drive home and every story has to somehow dovetail into that point? Bosworth avoids that) … It is the story of a life. The book came out in 1978 and there hasn’t been a big thorough biography of Clift since, because … why bother? Bosworth dominates. In a similar way that Ron Chernow did with Alexander Hamilton, and David McCullough did with John Adams … Patricia Bosworth does with Montgomery Clift. I find myself comparing all other biographies to this one. I consider this book to be a high watermark in entertainment biography. Montgomery Clift: A biography, by Patricia Bosworth She taught literary non-fiction at Columbia University’s School of Journalism and Barnard College, and was a longtime board member of the Actors Studio.Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Her father, attorney Bartley Crum, defended clients against the House Un-American Activities Committee, and in 1959 committed suicide.īosworth’s second memoir was 2017’s The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950’s Manhattan.
The author also wrote the memoirs Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story, a 1997 account of her family during the Hollywood Blacklist.
The Arbus book was later adapted for the 2006 film Fur starring Nicole Kidman. Diane Arbus followed in 1984, Marlon Brando in 2000 and Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman in 2011. She pivoted to a journalism career in the 1960s, writing or editing over the years for publications including New York Magazine, McCalls, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, Mirabella and, in the 1980s, Vanity Fair.īosworth found perhaps her truest calling with the 1978 publication of Montgomery Clift: A Biography, a book that remains a go-to account of the actor’s life. Notable Hollywood & Entertainment Industry Deaths In 2020: Photo Gallery
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