Highly rare vintage 8x10-inch black and white portrait by Everett for Lonelyhearts (1958), boldly signed with his name alone-- written as "Monty Clift," as was his custom-- in blue steel-tip fountain pen around the time of the film. In good condition and accompanied by a certificate from the third-party authentication service J.S.A. Handsome leading man Montgomery Clift, who died so tragically of heart disease at the age of 45, played moody, sensitive outsiders and antiheroes in films like The Heiress (1949), A Place in the Sun (1951), Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess (1953), From Here to Eternity (1953), The Young Lions (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), The Misfits (1961), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). He received four Oscar nominations during his brief lifetime.

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