Montgomery Clift, Queer Star

Index

index AIDS and HIV crisis, 21–22 alienation and self-alienizing, Clift’s: in The Big Lift, 74; following car accident, 2, 6, 126; in Freud, 218; in The Misfits, 186–87, 190, 198; in Young Lions, 9, 136–39, 141–45, 148 Americanness: in The Big Lift, 7–8, 54–55, 67–68, 70–71, 74, 76; disruptive portrayals by Clift, 104; in From Here to Eternity, 8; in The Search, 7–8, 54–58, 62, 65–66 An American Tragedy (Dreiser), 78 asexuality: in Clift’s life, 6; in Clift’s performances, 14, 19, 115, 125, 212; in Clift’s screen persona following car accident, 134; nonactive sexuality vs., 29, 184; pathologizing drive of heteronormativity and, 19 Avedon, Richard, 3 Baxter, Anne, 101–2 Berlin Blockade, in The Big Lift, 66 Bersani, Leo, 9, 25–26, 88, 171–72, 197 Big Lift, The (film), 73; Berlin Blockade as setting for, 66; central strand of narrative, 67; Clift’s role and performance in, 4–5, 70, 74–75; gendered Americanness destabilized in, 7–8, 54–55, 72–74; plot description and analysis, 66–74, 76; as propaganda effort, 67–68, 70–71 bisexuality, in Cohan’s text, 14 Bosworth, Patricia, 177 “boy,” concept of, 13 Brando, Marlon, 16–17, 137, 140–41, 145, 147 Butler, Judith, 8, 23–24, 28, 71, 96, 108–9 Califa, Patrick, 24–25 Capote, Truman, 102 car accident (1956): circumstances of, 121–22; and Clift’s departure from normative time, 200–201; in Cohan’s study, 15–16; effects of, 2, 5–6, 28–30, 122–30; response of fans to, 127 Catholic Legion of Decency, 173 Celluloid Closet, The (documentary film), 170–71 chrononormativity and heteronormativity, 30, 203 Clare, Eli, 27 Clareman, Jack, 124 Clift, Montgomery: addictions, 6, 105, 126, 138; ambiguous sexuality of, 3, 5, 9, 12–14, 18–19, 75–76; audience response to, 127, 129–30, 136–37; audio recordings and narrations by, 221; Brando’s script changes and, 140–41; celibacy, 29; childlike behaviors of, 202; as closeted subject, 7; complaints of his marketing as sex symbol, 176; death of, 223; disruptive presence of, 6, 13; emotional expressiveness, 52; as Hollywood outcast, 221–23; as icon of youthful rebellion, 16; legacy as film star, 1–2; Note: Italicized page numbers indicate photographs. 244 244 index Clift, Montgomery (continued) multiplicity of, 77; perfectionist approach to acting, 6, 30–31; physical and mental health, 153, 177, 180, 198–99, 221–23; physical appearance, 3, 125, 198–99; relationships with men and older women, 201; reshooting of scene in The Search, 63– 64; resistance to categorization, 25; response to machismo, 42–43; return to Broadway, 121; script interventions by, 4, 33, 90, 99–100, 160, 207–8; stunt work in The Defector, 223; subversive function of, 4–5, 11–12, 199–200; Taylor’s relationship with, 5, 8, 82–83, 86–87, 222–23; Taylor’s screen interaction with, 173–74, 197. See also alienation and self-alienizing, Clift’s; car accident (1956); persona of Clift Clift, Montgomery, movie stills and photographs: The Big Lift, 73; Freud, 214; The Heiress, 51; From Here to Eternity, 110, 117; I Confess, 100; Judgment at Nuremberg, 208; Lonelyhearts, 158; Monroe and, 195; A Place in the Sun, 7, 87; Raintree County, 133; Red River, 39; The Search, 59, 64; Suddenly, Last Summer, 168; Taylor and, 83; Wild River, 183; Young Lions, 138 closet, idea of: Butler on, 96; Clift and, 7; in Freud, 212–14; in The Heiress, 80; in I Confess, 92–94; in A Place in the Sun, 8, 14–15, 49, 80–81, 88; Sedgwick on, 23, 51, 80, 89–90, 92, 96 Cohan, Steven, 13–16, 33, 79 Cold War, in The Big Lift, 66 crip theory, 9, 142–45, 150 dance trope, in The Misfits, 191–92 Dandy, the, 50, 53–54 Darwin, Charles, 155 Dean, James, 17 Defector, The (film), 6, 126–27, 199, 223 De Sica, Vittorio, 102 deviant temporality, 30, 199–203, 208–9, 212 disability studies, 27, 142 discourse, notion of, 20 Dmytryk, Edward, 128–29 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy of US military, 107–9, 112, 230n26 Doty, Alexander, 25–26 Dreiser, Theodore, 78 Dyer, Richard, 16, 125–26 erotic celibacy, 29 erotohistoriography, 200, 212 fame, basis of, 3 fan literature, 3 Farmer, Brett, 17–18, 34 Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 28 film critics: on Clift in Raintree County, 129–30; on Clift in Red River, 3; on Clift in Wild River, 183...