Montgomery Clift

American actor (1920–1966) · 1920–1966

Appears in 8 videos · 8 passages.

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Montgomery Clift only as an actor, in brief remarks that discuss neither his acting nor his career. He cites him mainly in connection with Suddenly, Last Summer, a film he returns to several times between 2020 and 20241 2, and specifies that Clift plays the doctor in it3. He also recalls that Clift acted in From Here to Eternity4 and, in a later session, in The Misfits5. In the earliest passage, from 2017, he refers to him only as the actor in the film he is discussing, without further detail6. These mentions come up in sessions on a range of subjects: amnesia, the Twilight of the Gods, art in Pictures at an Exhibition, the subject in Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire, secularism, and evil as a "dis-knowledge" of oneself. The passages do not say what link he draws between the actor and these questions. Clift serves mainly as a reference point for identifying the film Dominique Pagani is talking about.

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

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Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor. A four-time Academy Award nominee, he was known for his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men", according to The New York Times. He is best remembered for his roles in Howard Hawks's Red River (1948), George Stevens's A Place in the Sun (1951), Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953), Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and John Huston's The Misfits (1961). […]

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