Monty and Elizabeth 

A blog dedicated to the friendship shared by Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth "Bessie Mae" (his nickname for her) Taylor.

Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift attend the premiere of

Together they were a blinding flash of gorgeousness. Elizabeth’s perfect features were almost freakish - until you were sucked into them like a black hole. Lavender eyes with double lashes - glamorous, mysterious, enigmatic. And Monty! That long ecstatic El Greco face - Prince Myshkin in Dostoyevsky. She was the goddess of creation and destruction, he could have been the messiah or a serial killer.

- David O. Selznick, after attending a party where Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor were also guests.

Elizabeth Taylor with son Michael Wilding jr photographed by Montgomery Clift 

"We all got totally soused somewhere on the West Side, and I remember Monty shouting to Liz, ‘You are the only woman I will ever love,’ and Elizabeth slumped in a chair staring at him with those magnificent violet eyes and crooning, ‘Baby, oh baby,’ over and over again." -Ed Foote on his last memory of Montgomery Clift.

"Every time you leave me for a minute, it’s like goodbye. I like to believe it means you can’t live without me."

Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. Photographed by Peter Stackpole. (1950)