Monte Blue

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Monte Blue (1921)

Monte Blue (born Gerard Montgomery Bluefeather ; born January 11, 1887 in Indianapolis , Indiana , † February 18, 1963 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) was an American film and stage actor .

Life

Childhood and youth

Monte Blue, who descends from the Cherokee Indians, lost his father at the age of eight, a soldier who had fought in the Civil War, among other things . This had died in an accident.

And his mother could no longer deny the livelihood for him and his four siblings, had to Blue as well as his brother the rest of his childhood and youth in a boarding school in Knightstown ( Henry County spend, Indiana). Despite the blows of fate, Blue developed into an ambitious youngster who was a member of the school band and worked as an American football player. He has also appeared on the theater stage, thus developing his interest in acting .

As a young man, Blue kept himself afloat financially with odd jobs, including working for the railroad, worker in a coal mine, cowboy and also as a lumberjack. While working as a firefighter, he broke his arms and legs in an accident and spent around a year and a half in a hospital. Most recently, Blue worked as a day laborer in the studio of the well-known film producer David Wark Griffith , who recognized the talent of the blues, and initially hired him as a stuntman and extra for his film The Birth of a Nation , produced in 1915 .

Career

In 1916 Blue tried briefly as an assistant director for the monumental film Intolerance , but had to realize that he had found his true happiness as an actor. In just a few years, Blue became a sought-after actor who appeared in front of the camera in no fewer than 280 films and television series. In 1923 he moved to Warner Brothers , who hired him for 35 of their films. His most famous silent films today include three comedies directed by Ernst Lubitsch , which he shot in the mid-1920s. Towards the end of the decade he was fortunate to be one of the few silent film stars to survive the switch from silent to sound film professionally, as he trained his voice in training courses, but also had a pleasant vocal organ.

Although Blue was a millionaire, he lost almost all of his fortune as a result of the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression. In the 1930s he received film offers continuously, but he was only engaged in leading roles in B-Movies , and only received supporting roles in more important film productions. He was also often cast as a villain and crook in his later career. In size blue, she was in front of the camera until the end, most recently in television series such as Wagon Train or The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin from the early 1950s .

Most recently he also worked as an entertainer at the circus, such as the Hamid-Morton Circus , which was on tour in Wisconsin. During one of these tours in Milwaukee, Blue died of a heart attack in February 1963, at the age of 76 .

Today, among other things, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame commemorates the actor Monte Blue.

Private life

Monte Blue was married three times. After a brief marriage to Erma Gladys in the early 1920s, he married Tova Jansen, the daughter of the Danish actress Bodil Rosing, in November 1924 . The couple had two children, daughter Barbara Ann and son Richard. After the death of his wife in March 1956, he married Betty Jean Munson Mess in 1959. With her, Blue had his third child, daughter Tove Blue Valentine . She was the only one of the children to go into show business and worked as a sound assistant on feature films, including Jurassic Park , in the 1990s .

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SURNAME Blue, Monte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bluefeather, Gerard Montgomery
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianapolis , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 1963
Place of death Milwaukee , Wisconsin