Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery (Robert Montgomery
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, May 21, 1904 - September 27, 1981), born in Beacon, New York, was an American actor. His works include " HereComesMr.Jordan ", "This is University", "Three Living Ghosts", "Wild Beauty" and so on.
Early Experience
Robert Montgomery, born May 21, 1904 in Beacon, New York, formerly known as Henry Montgomery Jr., was taught at Private school . In 1920, when his father, who was the chairman of the rubber company, died, his family was impoverished and he was forced to leave home to find a job. He worked as a railroad mechanic and then as a cruise ship sailor before moving to New York. He has written novels, but has been repeatedly rejected.
Performing Experience
In 1924, he switched to acting, and by the end of the 1920s, he had become a well-known actor on Broadway .
In 1929, when the sound film came out, he also moved to the screen with many theatrical actors. During the filming for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. , he played the happy and elegant male lead. He often shoots films with smash hit movie stars Norma Shearer , Greta Garbo , Joan Crawford , Queen of Hollywood, etc., but occasionally changes the way of play and turns to play a mental patient. He has filmed "The Big House", "Night Will Come", etc. Film, acting is also good.
In 1937, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a mentally ill patient in "The Wild Forest". In 1941, he starred in "HereComesMr.Jordan" and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 1935, he was elected chairman of the Actors Guild for the first time and served three consecutive terms. In 1939, he helped expose the extortionate labor scandal in the film, and he became famous.
In 1941, he was appointed as a reserve captain of the United States Navy. He was temporarily stationed in the London embassy as an assistant naval attache, and was soon ordered to establish a naval war room in the White House. After that, he participated in operations in the Pacific Theater, commanding a patrol torpedo boat. Normandy landing was the destroyer captain at the time. Outstanding military exploits during the war.
After the war, he returned to Hollywood as a director and actor. During John Ford's illness, he directed "They Can Sacrifice". Later, in 1947, he officially directed the film, and directed a controversial thriller "The Dead in the Lake", which adopted the first-person narrative method, coupled with the unpredictable subjective lens angle, and obtained unexpected results. I was also in the film. Plays Bishop-Private Detective Philip Marlowe. Only two appearances in the whole play, but all other pictures show his thoughts, and it seems that all the scenes shown are witnessed by him. He also directed and starred in several other films, all of which were successful.
After retiring from film, he turned to film and theater arts, and participated in political activities. In 1947, as a conservative political activist, served as chairman of the Hollywood Republican presidential campaign committee. In the same year, he testified in the first round of the Congressional Commission on Un-American Activities, exposing the communist infiltration in Hollywood.
From 1950 to 1954, hosted, produced and directed the weekly television series The Robert Montgomery Show, which was highly regarded.
In 1952, after helping Eisenhower successfully run for president, he was hired as the president's special adviser on television and public relations.
In 1955, he directed the stage play " Dangerous Hour " on Broadway and won the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre for Best Director.
In 1960, he established the " Cagney -Montgomery" production company in partnership with actor James Cagney , and directed his last film "The Brilliant Hour".
In the mid-1960s, a boycott of commercial television was launched, with little effect. These activities are reflected in his book "An Open Letter to Television Viewers", where he was a public relations consultant to Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller , a director of the Millwalk Telegraph Company and a consultant to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and president of the Center's Arts Theater.
Died in New York in September 1981. Her daughter, Elizabeth Montgomery, has also made several films and starred in the TV series Bewitched
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