Montgomery Clift

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 2009)

What can I say as a gay man, about why Montgomery Clift is the most underrated actors? Well, yeah, every one has copied him, and has been influenced by him, but he is given no credit. Hello! He was gay! Everyone knows that, it is this thing that even today Hollywood wont acknowledge. Still, actors today will not accept this. They cant admit that one of the greatest actors, who influenced them was gay! Thats why as an openly gay male, it is so important to be true to yourself and force people whether they want to or not accept it. When have you heard an actor on Oscar night, mention Monty? When did you ever hear the Academy Awards ever acknowledge the debt all actors have to him. Marlon Brando, James Dean..etc..etc..ad infinitum. Ask any professor of acting, who was the most naturally talented , and Monty is always mentioned. It doesn't matter. He was gay, so he has to be denied as a person. I've never heard Marlon, Paul Newman, Steve McQeen ever publicly address this, including todays actors. The only actors I have ever heard praise him, and acknowledge his worth were women. Elizabeth Taylor, Joanne Woodward, Natalie Wood, Faye Dunaway, the list goes on, but um their women and again its Hollywood, and their opinion doesn't matter either cause they are women! I get it, Hoolywood is misogynistic, and Homophobic, nothing has changed. You have to be a straight white man, in order for you to have any credibility. Nothing really has changed, since the 1950's. This is called progress?