Monte Montague

Born in Somerset, Kentucky and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio,[https://www.newspapers.com/image/761234430/?clipping_id=160010518 "A Deserted Husband"]. The Cincinnati Post. April 13, 1894. p. 1. Retrieved November 30, 2024.Snapshots: Street Railway Co. Beaten; Doings of the Police — Court Decisions and New Suits Filed; [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer/160011967/ Police Pickings"]. The Cincinnati Enquirer. April 14, 1894. p. 16. Retrieved November 30, 2024."United States Census, 1900", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MM8X-M4V : Fri Nov 08 01:19:30 UTC 2024), Entry for Oliver H Montague and Nannie Montague, 1900.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/32407108/?clipping_id=160010670 "Bankrupts Discharged"]. The Cincinnati Enquirer. April 1, 1902. p. 12. Retrieved November 30, 2024.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/761266634/?clipping_id=160011485 "185 Are Called"]. The Cincinnati Post. July 16, 1918. p. 2. Retrieved November 30, 2024. Montague was one of four children born to Nannie Davis and Oliver H. Montague."California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPC4-8YN : 26 November 2014), Walter H Montague, 06 Apr 1959; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/160111020/ "Obituaries: Walter H. Montague"]. The Los Angeles Times. April 9, 1959. pt. III, p. 10. Retrieved December 1, 2024.

A circus tumbler at age seven, Montague was eventually recognized as among "filmdom's most noted circus clowns", as well as "one of the best screen comedians in the profession."[https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-valley-independent/160084783/ "Hoot Gibson and Big Cast Due in 'Wild West Show'"]. Star Valley Independent. February 22, 1929. p. 1. Retrieved December 2, 2024. The years preceding his 1920 screen debut featured stints with Ringling Brothers, Hagenbech and Wallace, Barnum and Bailey, Al G. Barnes, Sells Floto, and Cooper and Lentz.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/880078326/?clipping_id=160020947 "Amusements: New Circus Serial at Lyric"]. The Urbana Daily Citizen. May 21, 1931. p. 8. Retrieved December 2, 2024.

On February 13, 1923, Montague married Mary Margaret Basolo.[https://www.newspapers.com/article/burbank-daily-evening-review/160112767/ "Turning the Pages Back: Five Years Ago"]. Burbank Daily Evening Review. February 25, 1928. p. 2. Retrieved December 1, 2024."California, County Marriages, 1850-1953", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8NS-CHG : Fri Mar 08 15:32:21 UTC 2024), Entry for Walter Harry Montague and Mary Margaret Basolo, 13 February 1923. They had one child, Mary Louise Montague, who worked briefly as a child actress in films during the 1920s,[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-idaho-statesman/160118829/ "Current Boise Offerings: The Gambling Fool"]. The Idaho Statesman. December 11, 1927. pt. III, p. 8. Retrieved December 1, 2024. appearing at least once—billed alternately as "Baby Montague" or "Monte Mongtague Jr."—alongside her father, in 1927's The Rambling Ranger.{{Cite news|title=Picturegoer's Guide|author=|date=August 1927|work=The Picturegoer|page=57|quote=The Rambling Ranger (European) — Average Western, with slight plot and a child interest. Jack Hoxie stars, with Dorothy Gulliver, C. E. Anderson, Charles Avery, Monte Montague, Bert De Mare, Baby Montague and 'Skeeter' Bill Robins. Director, Del Henderson.|id={{ProQuest|1771150449}}}}Munden, Kenneth White (9719). [https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C&pg=PA632&dq=%22monte+montague+jr%22+%22the+rambling+ranger%22 The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930, Part 1]. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 632. {{ISBN|0-520-20969-9}}.

Montague died in 1959 at age 67, in Burbank, California, survived by his wife, his mother, his daughter, and all three siblings.

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• Elmo the Fearless (1920)
• The Flaming Disc (1920)
• A Western Demon (1922)
• The Three Buckaroos (1922)
• Peaceful Peters (1922)
• The Great Circus Mystery (1925)
• Ace of Spades (1925)
• The Scarlet Streak (1925)
• The Radio Detective (1926)
• The Mystery Club (1926)
• The Wild Horse Stampede (1926)
• Hey! Hey! Cowboy (1927)
• Range Courage (1927)
• Rough and Ready (1927)
• Blake of Scotland Yard (1927)
• The Noose (1928)
• Clearing the Trail (1928)
• The Price of Fear (1928)
• The Danger Rider (1928)
• King of the Rodeo (1929)
• The Diamond Master (1929)
• The Tip Off (1929)
• The Ace of Scotland Yard (1929)
• Courtin' Wildcats (1929)
• Trigger Tricks (1930)
• The Lonesome Trail (1930)
• The Spell of the Circus (1931)
• The Hawk (1931)
• Finger Prints (1931)
• Heroes of the Flames (1931)
• Quick Trigger Lee (1931)
• Trapped (1931)
• The Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
• Texas Cyclone (1932)
• Impatient Maiden (1932)
• The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
• The Red Rider (1934)
• Rocky Rhodes (1934)
• Song of the Saddle (1936)
• Treachery Rides the Range (1936)
• Tarzan Escapes (1936)
• Guns of the Pecos (1937)
• Riders of the Black Hills (1938)
• Pals of the Saddle (1938)
• The Renegade Ranger (1938)
• Code of the Streets (1939)
• Racketeers of the Range (1939)
• Allegheny Uprising (1939)
• Arizona Legion (1939)
• The Rookie Cop (1939)
• Wagon Train (1940)
• Young Bill Hickok (1940)
• The Apache Kid (1941)
• Man from Cheyenne (1942)
• The Cyclone Kid (1942)
• The Phantom Plainsmen (1942)
• Thundering Hoofs (1942)
• Rustlers (1949)
• The Pecos Pistol (1949)
• The Last Musketeer (1952)
• Calamity Jane (1953)

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