Acting
Monte 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.
Movies with Monte Blue
Casablanca
1943
Mary of Scotland
1936
The Birth of a Nation
1915
Key Largo
1948
The Fountainhead
1949
'G' Men
1935
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
Union Pacific
1939
Apache
1954
Juarez
1939
Hell Town
1937
Edge of Darkness
1943
I Married a Witch
1942
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
Road to Morocco
1942
Dodge City
1939
Warpath
1951
Johnny Belinda
1948
Hangman's Knot
1952
The Unfaithful
1947
Silver River
1948
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
The Flood
1931
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
The Hard Way
1943
Gentleman Jim
1942
The Show of Shows
1929
Possessed
1947
Born to the West
1937
Buffalo Stampede
1933
Life with Father
1947
Ride, Vaquero!
1953
Gold Raiders
1951
The Big Wheel
1949
Bitter Apples
1927
Mission to Moscow
1943
Road to Singapore
1940
San Antonio
1945
North West Mounted Police
1940
Sharad of Atlantis
1936
Colorado Territory
1949
Northern Pursuit
1943
Flaxy Martin
1949
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Amateur Crook
1937
In Mizzoura
1919
Cheyenne
1947
Humoresque
1947
Across the Pacific
1942
Orphans of the Storm
1921
The Man I Love
1946
Backfire
1950
The Hidden Hand
1942
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
Touchdown, Army
1938
Danger Signal
1945
Skin Deep
1929
Defying Destiny
1923
The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938
The Great Man's Lady
1941
Broadway Rose
1922
Souls at Sea
1937
The Sea Hornet
1951
North to the Klondike
1942
The Iroquois Trail
1950
100% American
1918
My Favorite Blonde
1942
Never Say Goodbye
1946
Recompense
1925
Geronimo
1939
Rose of Cimarron
1952
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Secret Agent X-9
1937
Song of the Gringo
1936
Pacific Blackout
1941
The Affairs of Anatol
1921
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935
Martyrs of the Alamo
1915
No Defense
1929
Cinderella Jones
1946
Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940
Homicide
1949
Wagon Wheels
1934
Truck Busters
1943
The Great Train Robbery
1941
Cocoanut Grove
1938
Student Tour
1934
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946
Social Error
1935
The Squaw Man
1918
Tiger Rose
1929
King of the Texas Rangers
1941
King of Alcatraz
1938
The Jucklins
1921
So This Is Paris
1926
M'Liss
1918
The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
1943
Her Forgotten Past
1933
New York Town
1941
The Last Posse
1953
Shadow of a Woman
1946
Secret Enemies
1942
South of St. Louis
1949
Riders of Death Valley
1941
Prison Shadows
1936
Stallion Road
1947
Wild and Woolly
1917
The Goddess of Lost Lake
1918
The Purple Highway
1923
Ghosts
1915
The 13th Commandment
1920
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946
Desert Gold
1936
Frontier Days
1945
Illegal Traffic
1938
Nevada
1935
Trial by Trigger
1944
The Blonde Bandit
1949
Sky Racket
1937
Wolf's Clothing
1927
Hogan's Alley
1925
Those Who Dance
1930
The Red, Red Heart
1918
Sunset in Wyoming
1941
Told in the Hills
1919
Treachery Rides the Range
1936
Her Marriage Vow
1924
Isle of Escape
1930
Three Desperate Men
1951
Bad Man of Deadwood
1941
The Last Round-up
1934
White Shadows in the South Seas
1928
The Romance of Tarzan
1918
This Side of the Law
1950
Hawk of the Wilderness
1938
Trail of the Arrow
1952
The Devil's Needle
1916
Come On, Marines!
1934
Tom Sawyer, Detective
1938
Days of Jesse James
1939
Officer Thirteen
1932
Two Guys from Texas
1948
The Only Road
1918
Red Hot Tires
1925
The Marriage Circle
1924
Scattergood Pulls the Strings
1941
Everywoman
1919
On Probation
1935
Mystery Sea Raider
1940
Young Bill Hickok
1940
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
1949
The Greyhound Limited
1929
The Man Upstairs
1926
Other Women's Husbands
1926
The Intruder
1933
Rebellious Daughters
1938
The Black Diamond Express
1927
Our Leading Citizen
1939
Trails of the Wild
1935
Port of Hate
1939
Moonlight and Honeysuckle
1921
Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
1937
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937
Romance and Arabella
1919
The Man from Painted Post
1917
Revelation
1924
A Cumberland Romance
1920
The Matrimaniac
1916
The Younger Brothers
1949
Bells of San Fernando
1947
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938
The Mysterious Rider
1938
The Test
1935
Rustling a Bride
1919
Main Street
1923
Across the Pacific
1926
Hands Up
1918
A Perfect Crime
1921
Too Much Johnson
1919
Ride, Ranger, Ride
1936
Brass Knuckles
1927
Loving Lies
1924
Treat 'Em Rough
1942
How to Educate a Wife
1924
Across the Atlantic
1928
Snake River Desperadoes
1951
Life in Hollywood No. 4
1927
The Stoker
1932
The Dark Swan
1924
The Vagabond Prince
1916
Law of the Timber
1941
A Million to One
1936
Johanna Enlists
1918
The Noon Hour
1915
A Broken Doll
1921
Klondike Fury
1942
The Lover of Camille
1924
The Kentuckians
1921
Being Respectable
1924
Brass
1923
Frontier Pony Express
1939
The Bush Leaguer
1927
Till I Come Back to You
1918
Mademoiselle Midnight
1924
Jim Bludso
1917
Pettigrew's Girl
1919
My Old Kentucky Home
1922
Conquest
1928
From Headquarters
1929
Something to Think About
1920
Peacock Alley
1922
Lucretia Lombard
1923
Kiss Me Again
1925
The Microscope Mystery
1916
The Limited Mail
1925
The Brute
1927
One-Round Hogan
1927
Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
1954
Riders of the Night
1918
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
1950
Betsy's Burglar
1917
Hands Up!
1917
