(1920 – 1966) Beautiful, sexually ambiguous and hungry Clift embodied a troubled and introspective masculinity at odds with conventional representations of 1950s family and gender roles—a tension apparent as he plays off John Wayne in Red River (1948). In consummately American settings like this Western, the army (From Here to Eternity, 1953 and The Young Lions, 1958) or the inter-class drama of A Place in the Sun (1951), Clift haunts us with powerful acting and uncertain meaning. His last decade was overshadowed by a devastating automobile accident and consequent deterioration.