He was taking larger amounts of Demerol, enough to cause hallucinations. In 1965, Clift made another jump in his alcohol consumption. When he hired Lorenzo James, a black actor, to take care of him, James cleared out the hangers-on and drifters, and attempted to get the household running smoothly. Though he himself was bisexual, his home became a hangout for homosexual pals. He had a special "medicine cabinet" made in his New York duplex to hold the thousands of pills he stockpiled, some legitimate but mostly recreational. After then, Clift's drinking increased heavily. Taken to the hospital, he was operated on immediately for face lacerations, a broken nose and fractured jaw. When he began to choke she put her fingers down his throat and brought out two teeth that had lodged there. Taylor found him crushed under the steering wheel, his face a bloody pulp. On, he was leaving the home of his friend, Elizabeth Taylor, high in Coldwater Canyon, Los Angeles, when his car crashed into a telephone pole. A brilliant "first" of the method actors, he was nominated for an Oscar for his roles in "The Search," "A Place in the Sun" and "From Here to Eternity."Ĭlift suffered from deep emotional problems, was sexually ambivalent, an alcohol and drug abuser. American actor whose impact made him a star from the time of his first film, "Red River," 1948.
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