{"id":3282,"date":"2025-07-30T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:38:32","slug":"retro-movie-and-ventures-a-place-in-the-sun-1951-and-montgomery-clift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/30\/retro-movie-and-ventures-a-place-in-the-sun-1951-and-montgomery-clift\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: A Place in the Sun (1951) and Montgomery Clift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=Fh2Qxjy0iUg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240529194034\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=Fh2Qxjy0iUg&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 07:19:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-14 01:16:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-22 10:21:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-10 09:45:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-11 20:17:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-25 09:20:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 09:04:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 10:00:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 09:17:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 09:17:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a-place-in-the-sun-1.jpg\" alt=\"Montgomery Clift, eyes closed, rests his head on the chest of Elizabeth Taylor\" class=\"wp-image-3284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a-place-in-the-sun-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a-place-in-the-sun-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a-place-in-the-sun-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/place.jpg\" alt=\"The mouths of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift facing each other in A Place in the Sun.\" class=\"wp-image-3286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/place.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/place-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/place-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are all the other characters in this movie smitten with George (Montgomery Clift)? He&#8217;s handsome, but he&#8217;s a lunkhead. George&#8217;s uncle gives him a job where one rule is explicitly given as unbreakable: Don&#8217;t date employees. If George had just followed that one rule, everyone ends up happy. Grow up, George.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/montgomery-clift.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Montgomery Clift's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Montgomery Clift.\" class=\"wp-image-3285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/montgomery-clift.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/montgomery-clift-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/montgomery-clift-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>George is played by Montgomery Clift, who I knew stories about but mostly knew through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fh2Qxjy0iUg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Clash song about him<\/a>. He played a lot of aloof, sensitive men. I won&#8217;t get into it here, but he had a rough, short life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are only two motion picture Walk of Fame stars at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard. Next up: 6116!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dumb thinking for today&#8217;s poster: This movie is called &#8220;A Place in the Sun,&#8221; and the sun shines, so&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a-place-in-the-sun-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for A Place in the Sun Mimicking the poster for The Shining.\" class=\"wp-image-3290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a-place-in-the-sun-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a-place-in-the-sun-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a-place-in-the-sun-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a-place-in-the-sun-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Montgomery Clift, honey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[357,364,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-hollywood","tag-montgomery-clift","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}