“I thought he was the most gorgeous thing in the world and easily one of the best actors.” – Elizabeth Taylor
Eternally beautiful and mesmerizing performers, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift offered up some of the most heart-stopping performances of the mid-20th century while maintaining a legendary friendship until Clift’s untimely death in 1966. Though their combined filmographies could span several years worth of matinees at the Music Box, this summer we humbly offer a small selection of films from two of Hollywood’s most iconic stars
Coming up in this Series
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Opens May 18
After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (El... Read more
From Here to Eternity
Opens May 25
At an Army barracks in Hawaii in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, lone-wolf soldier and boxing champion "Prew" Prewitt (Montgomery Clift... Read more
The Misfits
Opens June 1
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe) ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland (Clark Gable)... Read more
A Place in the Sun
Opens July 6
In this classic version of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy," George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the nephew of a wealthy industrialist, i... Read more
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Opens June 23
History professor George (Richard Burton) and his boozy wife, Martha (Elizabeth Taylor), return late one Saturday night from a cocktail party at the h... Read more
Wild River
Opens June 15
Eager to further his career, ambitious Tennessee Valley Authority administrator Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) journeys to a small town to oversee th... Read more