Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Montgomery Clift" in English language version.
Clift said, 'One year, Marlon and I were both nominated for Oscars - he for Streetcar and I for A Place in the Sun. I voted for him, I thought him that good.'
Even though Harry Cohn of Columbia wanted John Derek for the part of Prewitt, and Jones had originally wanted Zachary Scott, Jones decided that Clift was a better choice than either and promised to do what he could.
William LeMassena explained, 'Monty loved Sinatra. We used to play his records over and over again. He was Sinatra's number one fan, and now Sinatra was out of favour and on rock bottom. Monty told me that he spoke to Cohn when all this blew up and got him the part.' There were suggestions in some quarters, however, that Sinatra got it only because of his own and Harry Cohn's mutual friendships within the Mafia. When the BBC ran the story in London, Sinatra sued and got an apology.
Roddy was a private man who kept his private life separate, but I could tell by the way he spoke about him [Clift] that Roddy felt a deep love for the man he could not save.