Monte Blue

Known for ActingBorn 1887-01-10Died 1963-02-18Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Ranger of Cherokee Strip

On Probation

The Flood

No Defense

Life in Hollywood No. 4

One-Round Hogan

Brass Knuckles

The Bush Leaguer

Wolf's Clothing

The Limited Mail

Hogan's Alley

The Lover of Camille

Her Marriage Vow

The Purple Highway

Peacock Alley

Trail of the Arrow

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Cocoanut Grove

Across the Atlantic

The Black Diamond Express

The Brute

How to Educate a Wife

Revelation

Being Respectable

Loving Lies

My Old Kentucky Home

Broadway Rose

A Broken Doll

The Kentuckians

The 13th Commandment

Too Much Johnson

Romance and Arabella

New York Town

The Great Train Robbery

Casablanca

Two Guys from Texas

Treat 'Em Rough

Our Leading Citizen

Trails of the Wild

The Last Round-up

The Greyhound Limited

From Headquarters

Conquest

Other Women's Husbands

The Man Upstairs

Recompense

Daughters of Pleasure