Glenn Ford
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Glenn Ford | |
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Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica, California , U.S. | |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1937–1991 |
Spouses | Cynthia Hayward
(m. 1977; div. 1984)Jeanne Baus
(m. 1993; div. 1994) |
Children | Peter Ford |
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006), known as Glenn Ford, was a
Ford often portrayed ordinary men in unusual circumstances. Although he starred in many genres of film, some of his most significant roles were in the film noirs Gilda (1946) and The Big Heat (1953), and the high school drama Blackboard Jungle (1955). However, it was for comedies or westerns that he received acting laurels, including three Golden Globe Nominations for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, winning for Pocketful of Miracles (1961). He also played a supporting role as Superman's mild mannered alter-ego Clark Kent's adoptive farmer father, Jonathan Kent, in the first film of the franchise series Superman (1978).[1]
Five of his films have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Gilda (1946), The Big Heat (1953), Blackboard Jungle (1955), 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and Superman (1978).
Early life
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford was born on May 1, 1916, in
While attending Santa Monica High School, Glen was active in school drama productions with other future actors such as James Griffith. After graduation around 1934, he began working in small theatre groups. While in high school, he took odd jobs, including working for future famous comedian / entertainer Will Rogers, who taught him horsemanship.[2] Ford later commented that his father had no objection to his growing interest in acting, but told him, "It's all right for you to try to act, if you learn something else first. Be able to take a car apart and put it together. Be able to build a house, every bit of it. Then you'll always have something."[7] Ford heeded the paternal advice and decades later during the 1950s, when he was one of Hollywood's most popular actors, he regularly worked on plumbing, wiring, and air conditioning at his home.[7]
At age 23, Ford gave up his status as a subject of the King (Canadian citizenship) and became a naturalized citizen of the United States on November 10, 1939, taking the oath of allegiance.[8]
Early career
Columbia Pictures
Ford acted in West Coast stage companies and had a role in the short Night in Manhattan (1937) before joining Columbia Pictures in 1939. His stage name came from his father's hometown of Glenford, Alberta.[9]
His first major movie part was in
Ford was in the bigger budgeted The Lady in Question (1940), which co-starred Rita Hayworth. This was a well-received courtroom drama in which Ford plays a young man who falls in love with Rita Hayworth when his father, Brian Aherne, tries to rehabilitate her in their bicycle shop. Directed by Hungarian emigre Charles Vidor, the two rising young stars instantly bonded.
So Ends Our Night
Top Hollywood director
Working with Academy Award-winning
After the film's highly publicized premiere in Los Angeles and a gala fundraiser in Miami, President Franklin D. Roosevelt saw the film in a private screening at the White House, and admired the film greatly. Young Ford was invited to Roosevelt's annual Birthday Ball. Inspired and enthused by the President, he returned to Los Angeles and promptly registered as a Democrat and a fervent FDR supporter. "I was so impressed when I met Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt," recalled Glenn Ford to his son decades later, "I was thrilled when I got back to Los Angeles and found a beautiful photograph personally autographed to me. It always held a place of high honor in my home."[11]
After 35 interviews and glowing reviews for him personally, Glenn Ford soon had young female fans begging for his autograph, too. However, the young man was disappointed when Columbia Pictures did nothing with this prestige and new visibility and instead kept plugging him into conventional films for the rest of his 7-year contract. His next picture
He continued to appear in movies for Columbia such as Go West, Young Lady (1941), and The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942).
World War II and Eleanor Powell
Ten months after Ford's portrait of a young anti-Nazi exile, the United States entered World War II with the
Ford made The Desperadoes (1942), another Western. Then, while making another war drama, Destroyer with ardent anti-fascist Edward G. Robinson, Ford impulsively volunteered for the United States Marine Corps Reserve on December 13, 1942. The startled studio had to beg the Marines to give their second male lead four more weeks to complete shooting on their picture.[12] In the meantime, Ford proposed to Eleanor Powell, who subsequently announced her retirement from the screen to be near her fiancé as he started Marine Corps boot camp.
Ford recalled later to his son that his friend William Holden, who had joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, and Ford had "talked about it and we were both convinced that our careers, which were just getting established, would likely be forgotten by the time we got back ... if we got back."[13]
He was assigned in March 1943 to active duty at the Marine Corps Base in
Awaiting assignment at
Just as Eleanor, now his wife, was expecting the birth of their child and Ford himself was looking forward to Officers Training School, he was hospitalized at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego with what turned out to be
Gilda
The most memorable role of Ford's early career came with his first postwar film in 1946, starring alongside Rita Hayworth in Gilda. This was Glenn Ford's second pairing with Hayworth; like the first it was directed by Charles Vidor.
The New York Times movie reviewer Bosley Crowther did not much like or, as he freely admitted, even understand the movie, but he noted that Ford had "just returned from war duty" and did show "a certain stamina and poise in the role of a tough young gambler."[15]
Reviewing the film in 1946, Crowther did not yet have the phrase with which Gilda would soon be associated, a term that French critics had not even invented in 1946: film noir. The erotic sadism and covert homoeroticism were actively encouraged on set by director Vidor, a sophisticated Budapest-born expatriate, though Glenn Ford always denied any awareness of the latter in his character's fervent loyalty to his boss, who had unwittingly married the love of Johnny's life.
The film was entered in the Cannes Film Festival in France, then in its first year. Ford went on to be a leading man opposite Hayworth in a total of five films.[3] and after their location romance (his marriage survived, hers did not) the two became lifelong friends and next-door neighbors, and lovers. Beautifully shot in black-and-white by cinematographer Rudolph Mate, Gilda has endured as a classic of film noir. It has a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and, in 2013, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[16]
Leading Star
Now established as a star of "A" movies, Ford was borrowed by
Ford appeared in a comedy, The Return of October (1948) and a popular Western The Man from Colorado (1948). The latter co-starred William Holden. Both Ford and his friend William Holden flourished throughout the 1950s and 1960s, but Ford was frustrated that he was not given the opportunity to work with directors of the caliber that Holden did in his Oscar-winning career, such as Billy Wilder and David Lean. He missed out on From Here to Eternity – as did Rita Hayworth – when production was stalled by Columbia studio head Harry Cohn. He also made the mistake, which he bitterly regretted later, of turning down the lead in the brilliant comedy Born Yesterday (also planned with Rita Hayworth), which Holden then snatched up.
Columbia kept Ford constantly busy:
Back at Columbia, Ford did Convicted (1950) with Broderick Crawford and The Flying Missile, a Cold War era movie.
Freelance Star
Ford went to Paramount for The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951) and Fox for Follow the Sun (1951) where he played Ben Hogan, and the Western The Secret of Convict Lake (1951). At United Artists he starred in The Green Glove (1952) then MGM called him back for Young Man with Ideas (1952).
Ford was reunited with Rita Hayworth a third time in Affair in Trinidad (1952). He went to Britain to star in MGM's Time Bomb (1953) then to Universal for the Western The Man from the Alamo (1953).
Ford made Plunder of the Sun (1953) with John Farrow, then was cast in the lead of The Big Heat (1953), Fritz Lang's classic crime melodrama with Gloria Grahame, at Columbia. After Appointment in Honduras (1953) at RKO, Ford reunited with Lang and Grahame in Human Desire (1954). Ford did two Westerns, The Americano (1955) at RKO and The Violent Men (1955) at Columbia.
MGM
Blackboard Jungle
Ford's career went up another notch when cast in the lead of
The movie was a huge hit and MGM signed Ford to a long-term contract. They put him in Interrupted Melody (1955) a biopic of Marjorie Lawrence with Eleanor Parker, and another big success; so too were the dramas Trial (1956) and Ransom! (1956).
Ford returned to Columbia for the Western Jubal (1956), then back at MGM made another Western, the hugely popular The Fastest Gun Alive (1956).
Comedy
Ford's versatility allowed him to star in a number of popular comedies, often as a beleaguered, well-meaning but nonplussed straight man facing difficult circumstances. In The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), he played an American soldier who is sent to Okinawa to convert the occupied island's natives to the American way of life but is instead converted by them.
All of Ford's starring vehicles in this era became hits: the Columbia Western 3:10 to Yuma (1957), the MGM military comedy Don't Go Near the Water (1957) and Cowboy (1958) with Jack Lemmon at Columbia.
Ford first worked with director George Marshall in The Sheepman (1958), a popular MGM Western. They reteamed for the service comedy Imitation General (1958) and the war film Torpedo Run (1958). He and Marshall made two comedies with Debbie Reynolds: It Started with a Kiss (1959) and The Gazebo (1959). At the end of the 1950s, Ford was among the greatest stars in Hollywood.
1960s
Ford's first financial flop since he had reached star status was the epic Western
Ford's box office standing recovered with the thriller Experiment in Terror (1962) and the comedy The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963). Less popular were the comedies Love Is a Ball (1963) and Advance to the Rear (1964), the latter directed by Marshall. He was in the drama Fate Is the Hunter (1964) and the romantic comedy Dear Heart (1964).
Ford made two films with Burt Kennedy The Rounders (1965), and The Money Trap (1965). He was one of many famous faces in Is Paris Burning? (1966) and went to Mexico for Rage (1966).
Ford was in some Westerns: A Time for Killing (1967), The Last Challenge (1967), Day of the Evil Gun (1968), Smith! (1968), and Heaven with a Gun (1969).
Later career
In 1976, Ford played Rear Admiral
Later military service
After having served in World War II, Ford enlisted for a third time in 1958. He entered the
Ford continued to combine his film career with his military service and was promoted to commander in 1963 and captain in 1968 after having visited Vietnam in 1967 for a month's tour of duty as a location scout for combat scenes in a training film entitled Global Marine. In support of president
Television
In 1971, Ford signed with CBS to star in his first television series, a half-hour comedy/drama titled The Glenn Ford Show. However, CBS head Fred Silverman suggested a Western series instead, which resulted in the series Cade's County. Ford played southwestern sheriff Cade for one season (1971–1972) in a mix of police mystery and Western drama.
In
In 1991, Ford agreed to star in the cable network series African Skies. However, prior to the start of the series, he developed blood clots in his legs that required a lengthy stay at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Eventually he recovered, but at one time his situation was so severe that he was listed in critical condition. Ford was forced to withdraw from the series and was replaced by Robert Mitchum.
Radio
In 1950, Ford played the title role in The Adventures of Christopher London, created by Erle Stanley Gardner and directed by William N. Robson. London was a private investigator in the weekly adventure series, which ran on Sundays at 7 p.m. on the NBC radio network from January 22 to April 30, 1950.[19]
Personal life
Ford's first wife was actress and dancer Eleanor Powell (1943–1959), with whom he had his only child, actor Peter Ford (born 1945). The couple appeared together on screen once in a short film produced in the 1950s titled Have Faith in Our Children. When they married, Powell was more famous than was Ford.[3] They divorced in 1959.
Ford did not remain on good terms with his ex-wives. He was a notorious womanizer who had affairs with many of his leading ladies, including Rita Hayworth, Maria Schell, Geraldine Brooks, Stella Stevens, Gloria Grahame, Gene Tierney, Eva Gabor and Barbara Stanwyck. He had a one-night stand with Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and a fling with Joan Crawford in the early 1940s.
Ford dated Christiane Schmidtmer, Linda Christian and Vikki Dougan during the mid-1960s, and he also had relationships with Judy Garland, Connie Stevens, Suzanne Pleshette, Rhonda Fleming, Roberta Collins, Susie Lund, Terry Moore, Angie Dickinson, Debbie Reynolds, Jill St. John, Brigitte Bardot and Loretta Young. However, he subsequently married actress Kathryn Hays (1966–1969); marriages to Cynthia Hayward (1977–1984) and Jeanne Baus (1993–1994) would later follow. However, all four marriages ended in divorce. He also had a long-term relationship with actress Hope Lange in the early 1960s. According to his son Peter Ford's book Glenn Ford: A Life (2011), Ford had affairs with 146 actresses, all of which were documented in his personal diaries, including a 40-year, intermittent affair with Rita Hayworth that began during the filming of Gilda in 1945. Their affair resumed during the making of their 1948 film The Loves of Carmen.[20][21] Ford had also been engaged to Debra Morris in the 1980s and Karen Johnson in the early 1990s.
In 1960, Ford moved to a home next to Hayworth's residence in Beverly Hills, and they continued their relationship for many years until the early 1980s.[22][21][23][24][25]
Ford's affair with stripper and cult actress Liz Renay was chronicled by her in the 1991 book My First 2,000 Men. She ranked Ford as one of her top five best lovers.
Ford also documented his many relationships by taping every phone conversation with all of his celebrity lovers and friends for 40 years. Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan are on these recordings, as well as Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, William Holden, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, James Mason, Lucille Ball, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Charlton Heston and Debbie Reynolds. Ford installed the recording system to eavesdrop on the conversations of his first wife Eleanor Powell, fearing that she would discover his serial cheating and leave him. She divorced him in 1959 on grounds of adultery and mental cruelty.
At the height of his stardom, Glenn Ford supported the
In May 1980, Ford attempted to purchase the Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League, with the intention of keeping the team in the city. He was prepared to match a $14 million offer made by Byron and Daryl Seaman, but was outbid by an investment group led by Nelson Skalbania, which included the Seaman brothers. The group acquired the franchise for $16 million on May 23 and eventually moved it to Calgary.[27][28]
Ford lived in Beverly Hills, California, where he illegally raised 140
Death
Ford retired from acting in 1991 at age 75 with heart and circulatory problems. He suffered a series of minor strokes that left him in frail health in the years preceding his death. He died at his Beverly Hills home on August 30, 2006, at the age of 90.[30]
Awards
After being nominated in 1957, 1958 and in 1962, Ford won a
Ford was listed in Quigley's Annual List of Top Ten Box Office Champions in 1956, 1958 and 1959, topping the list in 1958. For 10 consecutive years from 1955 through 1964, Ford was listed among Quigley's list of the top 25 box-office stars.
In 1958, Ford won the Golden Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance for his role in Don't Go Near the Water.[31]
For his contribution to the motion-picture industry, Ford has a star on the
Ford was scheduled to make his first public appearance in 15 years at a 90th-birthday tribute gala in his honor[32] hosted by the American Cinematheque at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on May 1, 2006. However, at the last minute, it was decided that he was too ill to attend. Anticipating during the previous week that his health might prevent his attendance, Ford had recorded a special filmed message for the audience, which was screened after a series of in-person tributes from friends including Martin Landau, Shirley Jones, Jamie Farr and Debbie Reynolds.[33]
Legacy
In a 1981 interview, Ford said his favorites of his own films were The Blackboard Jungle, Gilda, Cowboy, 3:10 to Yuma, The Sheepman and The Gazebo. "They may not have been the best pictures I did, but they're the ones I remember most fondly because of the people involved," he said. "People like George Marshall, who directed six pictures with me, and Debbie Reynolds."[34]
Filmography
- Night in Manhattan (1937) on-camera host as Emcee
- Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939) as Joe
- My Son Is Guilty (1939) as Barney
- Convicted Woman (1940) as Jim Brent
- Men Without Souls (1940) as Johnny Adams
- Babies for Sale (1940) as Steve Burton, aka Oscar Hanson
- The Lady in Question (1940) as Pierre Morestan
- Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) as Charlie
- So Ends Our Night (1941) as Ludwig Kern
- Texas (1941) as Tod Ramsey
- Go West, Young Lady (1941) as Sheriff Tex Miller
- The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) as Martin Eden
- Flight Lieutenant (1942) as Danny Doyle
- The Desperadoes (1943) as Cheyenne Rogers
- Destroyer (1943) as Mickey Donohue
- Gilda (1946) as Johnny Farrell / Narrator
- A Stolen Life(1946) as Bill Emerson
- Gallant Journey (1946) as John Joseph Montgomery
- Framed (1947) as Mike Lambert
- The Mating of Millie (1948) as Doug Andrews
- The Loves of Carmen (1948) as Don José Lizarabengoa
- The Return of October (1948) as Prof. Bentley Bassett Jr.
- The Man from Colorado (1948) as Col. Owen Devereaux
- The Undercover Man (1949) as Frank Warren
- Lust for Gold (1949) as Jacob "Dutch" Walz
- Mr. Soft Touch (1949) as Joe Miracle
- The Doctor and the Girl (1949) as Dr. Michael Corday
- The White Tower (1950) as Martin Ordway
- Convicted (1950) as Joe Hufford
- The Flying Missile (1950) as Cmdr. William A. Talbot
- The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951) as Gil Kyle
- Follow the Sun (1951) as Ben Hogan
- The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) as Jim Canfield
- The Green Glove (1952) as Michael "Mike" Blake
- Young Man with Ideas (1952) as Maxwell Webster
- Affair in Trinidad (1952) as Steve Emery
- Terror on a Train(1953) as Maj. Peter Lyncort
- The Man from the Alamo (1953) as John Stroud
- Plunder of the Sun (1953) as Al Colby
- The Big Heat (1953) as Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
- Appointment in Honduras (1953) as Steve Corbett
- City Story (1954, Short) as Narrator
- Human Desire (1954) as Jeff Warren
- The Americano (1955) as Sam Dent
- The Violent Men (1955) as John Parrish
- Blackboard Jungle (1955) as Richard Dadier
- Interrupted Melody (1955) as Dr. Thomas "Tom" King
- Trial(1955) as David Blake
- Ransom! (1956) as David G. "Dave" Stannard
- Jubal (1956) as Jubal Troop
- The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) as George Temple / George Kelby, Jr.
- The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) as Capt. Fisby
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957) as Ben Wade
- Don't Go Near the Water (1957) as Lt. J.G. Max Siegel
- Cowboy (1958) as Tom Reese
- The Sheepman (1958) as Jason Sweet
- Imitation General (1958) as MSgt. Murphy Savage
- Torpedo Run (1958) as Lt. Cmdr. Barney Doyle
- It Started with a Kiss (1959) as Sgt. Joe Fitzpatrick
- The Gazebo (1959) as Elliott Nash
- Cimarron (1960) as Yancey "Cimarron" Cravat
- Cry for Happy (1961) as CPO Andy Cyphers
- Pocketful of Miracles (1961) as Dave "the Dude" Conway
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse(1962) as Julio Desnoyers
- Experiment in Terror (1962) as John "Rip" Ripley
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) as Tom Corbett
- Love Is a Ball (1963) as John Lathrop Davis
- Advance to the Rear (1964) as Capt. Jared Heath
- Fate Is the Hunter (1964) as Sam C. McBane
- Dear Heart (1964) as Harry Mork
- The Rounders (1965) as Ben Jones
- The Money Trap (1965) as Joe Baron
- Omar N. Bradley
- Rage (1966) as Doc Reuben
- A Time for Killing (1967) as Maj. Tom Wolcott
- The Last Challenge(1967) as Marshal Dan Blaine
- Day of the Evil Gun (1968) as Lorne Warfield
- Smith! (1969) as Smith
- Heaven with a Gun (1969) as Jim Killian / Pastor Jim
- The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970, TV Movie) as Prof. Andrew Patterson
- Cade's County (1971, TV Series) as Sam Cade
- Jarrett (1973, TV Movie) as Sam Jarrett
- Santee (1973) as Santee
- Target: Eva Jones (1974)
- The Greatest Gift (1974, TV Movie) as Rev. Holvak
- Punch and Jody (1974, TV Movie) as Peter "Punch" Travers
- The Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974, TV Movie) as Colonel Pete Moore
- The Family Holvak(1975, TV Series) as Rev. Tom Holvak
- Midway (1976) as RAdm. Raymond A. Spruance
- Once an Eagle (1976, TV miniseries) as Gen. George Caldwell
- The 3,000 Mile Chase (1977, TV Movie) as Paul Dvorak / Leonard Staveck
- Evening in Byzantium (1978, TV Movie) as Jesse Craig
- Jonathan Kent
- The Visitor (1979) as Det. Jake Durham
- The Sacketts (1979, TV miniseries) as Tom Sunday
- Beggarman, Thief (1979, TV Movie) as David Donnelly
- The Gift (1979, TV Movie) as Billy Devlin
- Day of the Assassin (1979) as Christakis
- Virus (1980) as President Richardson
- Happy Birthday to Me (1981) as Dr. David Faraday
- My Town (1986, TV Series) as Lucas Wheeler
- Casablanca Express (1989) as Major Gen. Williams
- Border Shootout (1990) as Sheriff John Danaher
- Raw Nerve (1991) as Captain Gavin
- Final Verdict(1991, TV Movie) as Rev. Rogers (final film role)
Box office ranking
For many years, the Quigley Publishing Company's Poll of Film Exhibitors ranked Ford as one of the most popular stars in the US:
- 1955 – 12th most popular
- 1956 – 5th most popular
- 1957 – 16th most popular
- 1958 – 1st most popular (also 7th most popular in the UK)
- 1959 – 6th most popular
- 1960 – 12th most popular
- 1961 – 15th most popular
- 1962 – 21st most popular
- 1963 – 19th most popular
- 1964 – 19th most popular
Radio appearances
Year | Program | Episode/source | |
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1942 | Lux Radio Theatre | A Man to Remember[35] | |
1946 | Lux Radio Theatre | Gallant Journey[36] | |
1947 | Suspense |
"End of the Road"[37][38] | |
1947 | Lux Radio Theatre | A Stolen Life[39] | |
1949 | Lux Radio Theatre | The Mating of Millie[40] |
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Bibliography
- Ford, Peter. Glenn Ford: A Life (Wisconsin Film Studies). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-29928-154-0.
- Thomas, Nick. Raised by the Stars: Interviews with 29 Children of Hollywood Actors. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7864-6403-6. (Includes an interview with Ford's son, Peter)
- Wise, James E. and Anne Collier Rehill. Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1997. ISBN 1-55750-937-9
External links
- Glenn Ford at IMDb
- Glenn Ford at Turner Classic Movies
- Glenn Ford at the Internet Broadway Database
- Official website
- Official family-sanctioned website for fans to send condolences
- Photographs and literature
- Co-stars remember Glenn Ford at 100 Omaha World-Herald, May, 2016
- Glenn Ford at Find a Grave
- Photos of Glenn Ford from "Gilda" and other 1940s films Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine by Ned Scott