Cast

Monte Blue

Acting

Cast

Monte Blue

Known for

Acting

Born

1887-01-10

From

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Died

1963-02-18

Also known as G.M. Blue, Gerard Montgomery "Monte" Blue, Gerard Montgomery Blue

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Monte Blue (January 11, 1887 – February 18, 1963) was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles. Blue was born as Gerard Montgomery Bluefeather in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was half French, half Cherokee Indian. One of five children, his father died and his mother could not raise five children alone. Along with another brother, they both admitted to the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home. This did not stop him working his way through to Purdue University. When growing up, Blue built up his physique to become a football player (he grew to six feet three inches tall). He not only played football, but he was also a fireman, railroad worker, coal miner, cowpuncher, ranch hand, circus rider, lumberjack, and finally, a day laborer at the studios of D. W. Griffith. He had no theatrical experience when he came to the screen. In his first movie, The Birth of a Nation (1915), he was a stuntman and an extra in the movie. In his next movie, he starred in another small part in the movie, Intolerance (1916). Gradually moving to supporting roles for both D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Blue earned his breakthrough role as Danton in Orphans of the Storm, starring sisters, Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. Then he rose to stardom as a rugged romantic lead along with top leading actresses such as Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, and Norma Shearer. His most prolific female screen partner was Marie Prevost with whom he made several films in the mid 20s at Warner Brothers. Blue's finest silent screen performance was as the alcoholic doctor who finds paradise in MGM's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). Blue became one of the few silent stars to survive the talkie revolution. However, he lost his investments in the stock market crash of 1929. He rebuilt his career as a character actor, working until his retirement in 1954. One of his more memorable roles was the sheriff in Key Largo. He divorced his first wife in 1923 and married Tova Jansen in 1924. He had two children, Barbara Ann and Richard Monte. During the later part of his life, Monte Blue was an active Mason and the advance man for the Hamid-Morton Shrine Circus; while on business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he had a heart attack because of complications from influenza, dying at age 76. Monte Blue has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6286 Hollywood Blvd. Description above from the Wikipedia article Monte Blue, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Monte Blue

Monte Blue

Biography

Casablanca

Skin Deep

Juarez

Sharad of Atlantis

Touchdown, Army

Mary of Scotland

No Defense

The Show of Shows

Adventures of Don Juan

Broadway Rose

Hell Town

The Fountainhead

100% American

Buffalo Stampede

Key Largo

North West Mounted Police

The Mask of Dimitrios

Dodge City

The Jucklins

I Married a Witch

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

The Birth of a Nation

Union Pacific

Born to the West

Silver River

Apache

Snake River Desperadoes

Those Who Dance

Song of the Gringo

Defying Destiny

Flaxy Martin

In Mizzoura

'G' Men

Life with Father

Warpath

Road to Morocco

Gold Raiders

The Goddess of Lost Lake

The Big Wheel

Edge of Darkness

Her Forgotten Past

Colorado Territory

North to the Klondike

Across the Pacific

Treachery Rides the Range

A Perfect Crime

Action in the North Atlantic

Wild and Woolly

Recompense

The Man I Love

Bitter Apples

The Unfaithful

The Flood

The Greyhound Limited

Johnny Belinda

Sunset in Wyoming

Isle of Escape

The Great Man's Lady

Ride, Vaquero!

Rustling a Bride

Northern Pursuit

Romance and Arabella

Hangman's Knot

The Last Posse

Our Leading Citizen

The Affairs of Anatol

The Mysterious Rider

The Purple Highway

Amateur Crook

San Antonio

Moonlight and Honeysuckle

Road to Singapore

Orphans of the Storm

Gentleman Jim

The Man Upstairs

The Marriage Circle

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer