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TV Digest
November 18, 1950
That's chiefly why Montgomery keeps his television drama at a high intellectual level.
Montgomery was one of the first top-name film personalities to enter television on a full scale. As an actor of marked versatility who had played roles in motion pictures ranging from light comedy to heavy drama, his debut as executive producer of the Lucky Strike Theatre was more than welcomed. Since he had also gained much respect for his talents as a producer-director and for introducing a number of innovations in the technique of movie-making considerably more was expected of him.
Robert Montgomery didn't disappoint.
Since the time of his debut late in January of this year (Mondays at 9:30 P.M.) Montgomery's television productions have been top entertainment.
Montgomery was born at Beacon, N.Y., the son of a well-to-do rubber company executive. Educated at the fashionable Pawling School for Boys, he was sent abroad at the age of 14 to continue his studies, touring England, France, Switzerland and Germany.
A few years later Montgomery's father died, and when the estate was settled the family found itself penniless. Bob got his first job wiping oil and dust from locomotives in the machine shop of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. He spent a few years as a deckhand on a tanker and an actor with summer stock companies. It was a long slow trip upward, but eventually Hollywood recognized his acting abilities.
He appeared with Greta Garbo in "Inspiration" and with Norma Shearer in "Strangers May Kiss" and "The Divorcee." Until "Night Must Fall" he was a star much in demand but his remarkable characterization of a phychopathic murderer in that picture brought a nomination for the Academy Award.
Montgomery was one of the first Hollywood film stars to go to war. In 1939, he went to France and volunteered as an ambulance driver. When the Nazis moved into Paris in 1940, he was forced to escape by way of Lisbon. He entered active duty in the U.S. Navy and three and a half years later was honorably discharged as a commander, after having served in actions ranging from Guadalcanal to the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
Montgomery is married to the former Elizabeth Allen. They have two children. He is an avid reader and first edition collector, with writing one of his major hobbies. Collier's and American Magazine have published his short stories.