Monty. A Biography of Montgomery Clift. By Robert LaGuardia

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Monty. A biography of Montgomery Clift. The sensational nationwide bestseller!

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"Fascinating, often astounding... Monty Will be read, talkd about, passedaound". Rex Reed, New York Daily News.

Millions adored him. Women -and men- couldn't resist him. Brando and Dean emulated him. Elizabeth Taylor was mad about him. Hollywood moguls feared him. Marilyn Monroe befriended him. In the end, drugs, alcohol, and his own conflicting sexual desires consumed him.

Here, for the first time, is the definitive, emotionally charged biography of a brilliant American actor. Here is Montgomry Clift, the haunted man behind the boyish fire that ignited the screen.

"Graphic, harrowing... Exceedingly candid... Compulsive reading." The New York Times.

"A book as hard to put down as the life was to embrace." Boston Globe.

Selected by 2 Major Book Clubs. With 60 photos, many never before published and a complete filmography.

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"Brands on the reader's mind an image that is hard to shake off" Pubblishers Weekly.

Monty. Classically handsome, extraordinarily gifted-- and dedicated to hus own destruction. From hus smashing screen successes: The Search, From here to eternity, The Misfits, to his man-to-man showdown with John Wayne in Red River, through the behund-the-scenes clashes with directing giants Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston, to his intense relationship with Liz Taylor, begun on the set of A place in the sun, and finally, through his slow drowning ina river of vodka and pills-- MONTY captures the truth of a tragic life.

"The entire field of film biography takes a major step forward with the publication of this superb book" Cinema Booklist.

"A detailed, disturbing portrait of a tortured, gifted, self-destroyer" Chicago Daily News.

"Amazing... remarkably accurate" Truman Capote.

Main Selection of the movie book club.