History's Hottest Movie Actors

From:  Boy Culture

 The physical Clift

#13
Montgomery Clift 

1920—1966

 The look

Mastroianni said that neither James Dean nor Marlon Brando were the original anti-hero of the cinema, but that Montgomery Clift—with his melancholy gaze and uniquely saturated presence on film—holds that title. He may be right. But aside from the sometimes dreamy quality of his acting, there was the dreamy quality of his face. Cruelly, fate would rob him of his his physical beauty—and his life—very early on, his heavy drinking causing a car crash at BFF Elizabeth Tayor's home that disfigured him. Clift's sexuality (he was gay) could be argued to have colored his portrayals, even in westerns. Especially in westerns.

 Sexy Sampler
Red River (1948), The Heiress (1949), A Place in the Sun (1951), I Confess (1953), Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953), From Here to Eternity (1953), Raintree County (1957), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)