The best Montgomery Clift’s documentary movies

Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift

17/10/1920- 23/07/1966
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The Love Goddesses

The Love Goddesses
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 03/03/1965
  • Character: (archive footage)
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
7/10
In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb acting skills made him truly unique, so that the doors to the starry sky of Hollywood opened for him. However, his peculiar manners, political commitment and complicated love life always overshadowed his artistic success.

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 03/03/1985
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

Listen to Me Marlon

Listen to Me Marlon
8.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 29/07/2015
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
6.3/10
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.

Making Montgomery Clift

Making Montgomery Clift
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 23/09/2018
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
Classic film star and queer icon Montgomery Clift’s legacy has long been a story of tragedy and self-destruction. But when his nephew dives into the family archives, a much more complicated picture emerges.

Operation Raintree

Operation Raintree
5.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 31/08/1957
  • Character: Himself
MGM short that looks at the behind the scenes production of Raintree County.

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
8.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 19/12/1994
  • Character: Dr. Cukrowicz (archive footage)
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' work, among them extracts of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951),Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Night of the Iguana, The (1964), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV). Contains footage of Williams being interviewed, including conversations with David Frost, 'Edward R. Murrow (I)', and Melvyn Bragg, as well as reminiscences from people who knew and worked with him, among them Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, and his lifelong friend, Lady Maria St. Just. Features readings from Elia Kazan's Notebook by Kim Hunter.

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