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Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of A Place in The Sun.

Oh my goodness he was such a good looking man.

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FenellaTheWitch said:
Montgomery Clift was another troubled soul. Closeted homosexual and abuser of pills and booze. He died young.
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Yes he was very interesting. I became a bit obsessed with him when I was much younger as he was such an a-typical film star and was just so stunning. Very much an intense method actor and greatly respected by his peers.
Elizabeth Taylor was a good friend to him.
 
Dollylovesshoes said:
I loved that film as well!Quite deep wasn’t it?

So handsome,I always thought as well Elizabeth Taylor was very,very beautiful.
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Yes she and Montgomery Clift looked insanely beautiful together. Like stunning twins.
There is a film they are both in, Raintree County, where half is before his terrible car crash and half after. They had to film him from just one side after due to his facial injuries.
 
Jelly Bean said:
Yes she and Montgomery Clift looked insanely beautiful together. Like stunning twins.
There is a film they are both in, Raintree County, where half is before his terrible car crash and half after. They had to film him from just one side after due to his facial injuries.
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He and Elizabeth were really close and there were rumours she was in love with him and had even tried to seduce him at one point. He was also attracted to her but as he was gay nothing ever came of it and they settled for friendship instead with her becoming one of his biggest supporters although Debbie Reynolds said she believed they did have a thing and claimed she saw them kissing once. Many thought they were soulmates and if they had been able to be properly together, they would have lasted.

The crash happened after a party at Elizabeth's house and he smashed into a telephone pole. The story is, that Elizabeth seemed to hear the smash and went running down to the scene and he was seemingly in bad shape. Someone who was at the scene said his face had been torn off and she saved him from choking by putting her hand down his throat and grabbing teeth that had been dislodged in the crash and stuck in his windpipe. The reason there is only footage of the car and none of him is she also seemingly warned photographers if even one picture was released/leaked, she would make sure they would be sorry and they seemingly believed her as nothing has ever surfaced.

The surgeons tried their best but only so much could be done and as you say, you can tell what was filmed pre-crash and what was done after and unsurprisingly he was never the same again, turning to drink and drugs. If you watch Misfits, the film he was in with Marilyn and Clark Gable, he looks older than Clark even though Clark was nineteen years his senior. When he finally died of a heart attack in 1966 at only 45, it was dubbed the longest suicide in Hollywood.
 

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I watched breathless again, probably the first time in 10 years and I forgot how beautiful JP belmondo is. He made smoking so cool. Reading some of the trivia around this, it seems the film with very bodged together with belmondo seemingly surprised of its reception at release. Worth a watch if you’ve not seen it 👌🏻
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JP Belmondo's son Paul became a F1 driver. Sadly he was not a success, and it led to a joke in F1 circles 'What is the opposite of Pole Position? Paul Belmondo'.
 
thegirlscout said:
He looked like this in June. But he is 80 so it could be aging?
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I believe so, the cowbell refers to the SNL skit where he asks for ‘more cowbell’.
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Don't know if it's bad lighting or the angle, but he looked so much older in the pics taken of him at De Niro's birthday a few weeks back.

As for him saying anything, I doubt he will now after being quiet all these years. The actor Robert La Tourneaux who was in the 70s film, The Boys In The Band did an interview about his closeted lovers back in the day and alluded to Walken being one of them. He also claimed Walken and Wagner had a thing which is something many believe to be true thinking Natalie walked in on the pair of them and that started everything off.

While no one knows for sure about Christopher, Wagner has long been rumoured to be Bi. Friends and family of Natalie said the first time they split was because she caught him with their butler that he brought with him when they moved in together. After what happened with her second husband, she got back with him because at least she knew what she was getting with Robert. He also stayed with Clifton Webb when he first moved to Hollywood and although they were seen as Mentor/Mentee, many thought Webb was his sugar daddy.
 

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