Monte Blue
Biography
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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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1887-01-10
Place of birth
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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Cast
Possessed
1947
6.90
Key Largo
1948
7.40
Ride, Ranger, Ride
1936
4.70
The Hidden Hand
1942
6.45
Main Street
1923
4.00
Riders of the Night
1918
7.00
My Old Kentucky Home
1922
0.00
Backfire
1950
5.78
The Squaw Man
1918
5.80
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
7.00
Three Desperate Men
1951
4.00
Life with Father
1947
6.70
Rose of Cimarron
1952
5.33
Cheyenne
1947
6.80
Apache
1954
6.10
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
6.60
Shadow of a Woman
1946
4.30
This Side of the Law
1950
4.50
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
4.40
Flaxy Martin
1949
5.50
Tiger Rose
1929
0.00
Life in Hollywood No. 4
1927
0.00
A Perfect Crime
1921
0.00
Song of the Gringo
1936
4.70
Homicide
1949
5.30
Across the Pacific
1942
6.60
Trial by Trigger
1944
2.00
White Shadows in the South Seas
1928
6.60
Young Bill Hickok
1940
4.50
Born to the West
1937
4.60
Hangman's Knot
1952
6.40
The Affairs of Anatol
1921
5.56
The Romance of Tarzan
1918
6.00
The Marriage Circle
1924
6.30
Hands Up
1918
0.00
Northern Pursuit
1943
6.00
Colorado Territory
1949
7.00
Truck Busters
1943
6.00
The Black Diamond Express
1927
0.00
Wagon Wheels
1934
4.80
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935
5.00
Nevada
1935
3.67
Bells of San Fernando
1947
4.20
Treachery Rides the Range
1936
1.00
The Younger Brothers
1949
5.00
Warpath
1951
5.80
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
1937
4.30
Officer Thirteen
1932
6.20
Buffalo Stampede
1933
3.30
Secret Enemies
1942
5.20
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
1943
6.80
The Test
1935
2.50
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
1949
0.00
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937
6.00
Secret Agent X-9
1937
6.70
The Stoker
1932
0.00
Desert Gold
1936
5.40
The Intruder
1933
4.00
Humoresque
1947
7.00
Prison Shadows
1936
4.90
Mystery Sea Raider
1940
3.00
Gold Raiders
1951
5.70
Amateur Crook
1937
1.00
On Probation
1935
0.00
South of St. Louis
1949
5.63
Hawk of the Wilderness
1938
7.00
King of the Texas Rangers
1941
6.00
Her Forgotten Past
1933
6.00
Lucretia Lombard
1923
5.00
Sky Racket
1937
3.00
Student Tour
1934
5.00
The Last Round-up
1934
0.00
Tom Sawyer, Detective
1938
5.20
Souls at Sea
1937
6.30
My Favorite Blonde
1942
6.40
The Mysterious Rider
1938
6.00
The Last Posse
1953
6.10
Rebellious Daughters
1938
4.50
Casablanca
1943
8.10
Illegal Traffic
1938
6.50
100% American
1918
5.50
M'Liss
1918
5.71
Mademoiselle Midnight
1924
5.40
So This Is Paris
1926
6.10
Orphans of the Storm
1921
6.77
The Man from Painted Post
1917
4.80
Mary of Scotland
1936
6.20
How to Educate a Wife
1924
0.00
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
0.00
Defying Destiny
1923
5.50
Kiss Me Again
1925
0.00
The Limited Mail
1925
0.00
Hogan's Alley
1925
0.00
Red Hot Tires
1925
0.00
Other Women's Husbands
1926
0.00
Jim Bludso
1917
0.00
The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945
5.65
Broadway Rose
1922
0.00
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
1921
0.00
Ghosts
1915
4.50
The 13th Commandment
1920
0.00
Cocoanut Grove
1938
0.00
'G' Men
1935
6.58
Cinderella Jones
1946
2.75
Dodge City
1939
6.90
Frontier Pony Express
1939
4.00
Juarez
1939
6.50
Union Pacific
1939
6.58
Days of Jesse James
1939
4.70
Gentleman Jim
1942
7.15
Trail of the Arrow
1952
0.00
Johnny Belinda
1948
6.77
Johanna Enlists
1918
5.80
Port of Hate
1939
5.70
The Great Train Robbery
1941
7.50
A Million to One
1936
3.00
Social Error
1935
5.00
North to the Klondike
1942
6.80
Those Who Dance
1930
6.00
Sunset in Wyoming
1941
0.00
San Antonio
1945
5.90
Something to Think About
1920
6.40
Riders of Death Valley
1941
6.50
Skin Deep
1929
1.00
Sharad of Atlantis
1936
4.20
Law of the Timber
1941
6.00
One-Round Hogan
1927
0.00
Brass Knuckles
1927
0.00
Trails of the Wild
1935
0.00
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940
5.50
Snake River Desperadoes
1951
3.80
North West Mounted Police
1940
6.35
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938
6.30
Road to Singapore
1940
6.50
The Goddess of Lost Lake
1918
0.00
The Big Wheel
1949
5.20
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
1950
0.00
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
6.00
Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946
4.44
Geronimo
1939
4.60
Klondike Fury
1942
4.20
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946
5.40
The Show of Shows
1929
5.50
Never Say Goodbye
1946
6.20
The Sea Hornet
1951
5.00
Our Leading Citizen
1939
0.00
The Iroquois Trail
1950
5.80
The Vagabond Prince
1916
0.00
I Married a Witch
1942
6.80
The Dark Swan
1924
0.00
The Blonde Bandit
1949
5.80
The Devil's Needle
1916
6.50
Hands Up!
1917
0.00
Betsy's Burglar
1917
0.00
Stallion Road
1947
5.00
The Matrimaniac
1916
6.50
Silver River
1948
5.90
The Great Man's Lady
1941
6.30
Martyrs of the Alamo
1915
5.20
Conquest
1928
0.00
The Greyhound Limited
1929
0.00
No Defense
1929
0.00
Come On, Marines!
1934
4.50
The Birth of a Nation
1915
5.95
Isle of Escape
1930
6.00
New York Town
1941
10.00
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
6.83
Pacific Blackout
1941
6.30
Touchdown, Army
1938
0.00
From Headquarters
1929
0.00
The Purple Highway
1923
0.00
Bitter Apples
1927
0.00
Brass
1923
3.00
King of Alcatraz
1938
5.70
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
7.11
Two Guys from Texas
1948
6.00
Edge of Darkness
1943
6.19
Mission to Moscow
1943
5.30
The Unfaithful
1947
5.83
Danger Signal
1945
5.80
Frontier Days
1945
4.00
Across the Pacific
1926
4.00
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946
6.00
Recompense
1925
0.00
Revelation
1924
0.00
Peacock Alley
1922
0.00
Being Respectable
1924
0.00
The Lover of Camille
1924
0.00
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
1941
0.00
A Broken Doll
1921
0.00
Road to Morocco
1942
6.90
The Fountainhead
1949
6.83
The Only Road
1918
0.00
The Hard Way
1943
6.30
Too Much Johnson
1919
0.00
Loving Lies
1924
0.00
The Microscope Mystery
1916
0.00
Romance and Arabella
1919
0.00
Till I Come Back to You
1918
5.70
Everywoman
1919
0.00
Wild and Woolly
1917
6.30
The Man Upstairs
1926
0.00
Across the Atlantic
1928
0.00
The Kentuckians
1921
0.00
The Bush Leaguer
1927
0.00
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
6.60
Her Marriage Vow
1924
0.00
The Man I Love
1946
6.10
Told in the Hills
1919
0.00
Wolf's Clothing
1927
0.00
The Brute
1927
0.00
The Noon Hour
1915
0.00
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
5.90
A Cumberland Romance
1920
0.00
The Jucklins
1921
0.00
Pettigrew's Girl
1919
0.00