Gwyllyn Samuel Newton " Glenn " Ford (May 1, 1916 - August 30, 2006) is a Canadian-born actor who holds two Canadian and American Citizens. His career lasted more than 50 years. Although he played many different roles, Ford is famous for playing regular men in unusual circumstances. He was most prominent during the Golden Era of Hollywood.
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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford was born on May 1, 1916 in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, son of Hannah Wood (Mitchell) and Newton Ford, an engineer at the Canadian Pacific Railway. Through his father, Ford is the first nephew of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and is also associated with US President Martin Van Buren. In 1922, when Ford was 6 years old, his family moved first to Venice and then to Santa Monica, California; Newton became a motorman for the Venetian Tramway Company, a job he held until he died at the age of 50 in 1940.
After Ford graduated from Santa Monica Secondary School, he started working in small theater groups. While in high school, he took on odd jobs, including working for Will Rogers, who taught him to ride. Ford later commented that his father did not object to his growing interest in acting, but told him, "It's okay for you to try to act, if you learn something else first.Able to take the car apart and put it together.Able to build a house, every bit, and you'll always have something. "Ford noticed that advice and during the 1950s, when he became one of Hollywood's most popular actors, he regularly worked in the field of pipes, cables, and air conditioning at home.
Ford became a naturalized United States citizen on 10 November 1939.
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Careers
Initial career
Ford acted on the West Coast stage company before joining Columbia Pictures in 1939. His stage name came from his father's hometown of Glenford, Alberta. The main part of the first film was in the 1939 film, Heaven with Barbed Wire Fence . Top Hollywood director John Cromwell was quite impressed with his work to borrow him from Columbia for the independently produced drama So That Ends Our Night (1941), where Ford delivered a fascinating portrayal of a 19-year-old A German exile on the run in Nazi-occupied Europe.
In collaboration with Academy Award-winning Fredric March and wooing 30-year-old Margaret Margaret Sullavan, who was recently nominated for an Oscar, Ford, a stirring and fascinated young refuge, focused even on such star companies. "Glenn Ford, the most promising newcomer," Bosley Crowther wrote on The New York Times on February 28, 1941, drew more substance and drew the simplicity of his role boys than anyone else in the cast. "
After a highly publicized premiere in Los Angeles and a fundraiser in Miami, President Franklin Roosevelt saw the film in private viewership in the White House, and deeply admired the film. Ford was invited to Roosevelt's annual birthday party. He returned to Los Angeles and was soon enlisted as a Democrat, a passionate FDR supporter. "I was very impressed when I met Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt," Glenn Ford recalled to his son a few decades later, "I was very excited when I returned to Los Angeles and found a beautiful photo signed personally to me. a high honor in my home. "
After 35 interviews and glowing reviews for him personally, Glenn Ford has a young lady fan who asks for his autograph as well. However, the young man was disappointed when Columbia Pictures did nothing with this prestige and new visibility and instead continued to put it in conventional movies for the rest of his 7-year contract. The next picture, Texas , is the first Westerner, a genre with which he will be associated for the rest of his life. Defined after the Civil War, he paired it with another male star under contract, Bill Holden, who became a lifelong friend. The more routine films followed, nothing impressive, but profitable enough to allow Ford to buy his mother and himself a beautiful new home in Pacific Palisades.
So Ends Our Night also affects young stars in other ways: in the summer of 1941, while the United States was technically still neutral, he was registered with the Coast Guard Auxiliary, even though he experienced a 3rd grade delay (to become one- her mother's only support). He started his training in September 1941, drove three nights a week to his unit in San Pedro and spent most of the weekend there.
World War II
Ten months after Ford's portrait of a young anti-Nazi exile, the United States entered World War II. After playing a young pilot in the 11th Columbia film, Flight Lieutenant (1942), Ford went on a cross-country 12 city tour to sell war bonds for the Army and Navy. In the midst of many stars also donated their time - from Bob Hope to Cary Grant to Claudette Colbert - he met the popular dance star Eleanor Powell. The two soon fell in love; they attended the official opening of USO Hollywood together in October. Then, while making another war drama, Destroyer, with Edward G. Robinson, a passionate anti-Fascist, Glenn impulsively volunteered for the US Marine Corps Reserve on December 13, 1942. The shocked studio should ask the Marines to give their second son a four-week lead to complete the shot. Meanwhile, Ford proposes to Eleanor Powell, who then announces his resignation from the screen to be near his fiancée as he starts the training camp.
Ford remembers to his son that Bill Holden, who has joined the Army Air Corps and he, "talked about it and we are both convinced that our newly established career is likely to be forgotten by the time we get back.. If we come back." He was assigned to March 1943 for active duty at the Marine Corps Base in San Diego. With the Coast Guard service, he was offered an officer position, but Ford refused, feeling it would be interpreted as preferential treatment for movie stars and instead entering the Marines as a person. He trained at the Marine base in San Diego, where Tyrone Power, the number one movie star at the time, was also based. Power suggested Ford join him on the weekly Marine radio show, Halls of Montezuma broadcast Sunday night from San Diego. Ford excelled in his training, won the Rifle Marksman Badge and named the "Honor Man" of the platoon and was promoted to sergeant by the time he finished.
Pending the assignment at Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps headquarters, Camp Lejeune, Ford volunteered to play Marine raider - uncreditedÃ, - in the movie Guadalcanal Diary , made by Fox, with Ford and others charging to the South coast California. He then shows this to his son, Peter, along with many other black-and-white battle scenes in other films. Desperately for Ford, recording a battle scene is the closest thing he will get in any action. After being sent to the Marine Corps Detachment (Photography Department) in Quantico, Virginia, three months later, Ford returned to San Diego base in February 1944 and was assigned to the radio section of the Public Relations Office, Headquarters, Battalion Headquarters, where he returned to work at Halls of Montezuma .
Unfortunately - just like Eleanor, now his wife, is expecting the birth of their child, and Ford himself is looking forward to the Officer Training School - he is cut down by an unexplained stomachache and hospitalized at the US Naval Hospital in San Diego with what turns out to be duodenal ulcer, an affliction for the rest of his life. He was in and out of the hospital for the next five months, and finally received medical deliveries on Pearl Harbor's third birthday on December 7, 1944. Although his time in the Marines was without the combat duty he wished, Ford had served his country longer than technically was at war and was awarded several service medals for three years in the Marine Corps Reserve: US Campaign Medal and Medal of Asia Pacific Campaign, and World War II Victory Medal, created in 1945 for anyone who has been in active duty since December 1941.
Act in movie
The most memorable role of Ford's career came with his first postwar film in 1946, starring Rita Hayworth at Gilda. This is Glenn Ford's second partner with Hayworth; first in The Lady In Question (1940), a well received court drama in which Glenn plays a boy who fell in love with Rita Hayworth when his father, Brian Aherne, tried to rehabilitate he's in their bike shop. Directed by Hungarian emigrant Charles Vidor, the two young stars ride directly tied. However, the chemistry on their screen was not immortalized, until Gilda , also directed by Charles Vidor, who knew the good things when he saw it.
The New York Times observer of the movie Bosley Crowther does not like it much, or, because he freely admits, even understands, the film, but he notes that Ford "just returned from war work," does show " stamina and tranquility in the role of a tough young gambler. "Reviewing the movie in 1946, the venerable Crowther has no way of knowing that Gilda is a new, hard-bitten, and steamy genre carrier who is often ridiculed logic to make its dark point about the human heart. He, in fact, does not yet have the phrase where Gilda will soon be linked, a term that the French critics did not have, in 1946, was even found: the noir film, with Rita, the most remarkable genre femme fatale . The erotic sadist and covert homoeroticism is actively encouraged by director Vidor, a sophisticated Viennese-born expatriate, although Glenn Ford has always denied the awareness of strong loyalty to his superiors, who unknowingly married Johnny's love life..
The film is included in the Cannes Film Festival, then in its first year. Ford then became a leading man across from Hayworth in a total of five films. and both, after the romance of their location (his marriage is safe, hers is not) being a lifelong friend and next door neighbor. Beautifully shot in black and white by cinematographer Rudolph Mate, Gilda has survived as a classic noir movie. It has a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and, in 2013, is selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
With a return like this, Glenn Ford, not to mention his friend, Bill Holden, need not worry about their future career after the war. Both men grew during the 1950s and 1960s as male icons for decades, but Ford was frustrated because he was not given the opportunity to work with a caliber director who brought Holden into his Oscar-winning career, such as Billy Wilder and David Lean.. Glenn Ford lags on From Here to Eternity Ã, - as does Rita Hayworth - when production stops by Columbia's studio head, Harry Cohn. He also made a mistake, then cruelly regretted, for refusing to lead in the brilliant comedy Born Yesterday (also planned with Rita Hayworth) which Holden then captured.
He has continued to bring solid performances in thriller films, dramas, and actions like A Stolen Life with Bette Davis, an unforgettable movie: The Big Heat directed by Hitler refugee Fritz Lang, starring Gloria Grahame, and renamed the same the next year in Human Desire , loosely based on La Bete Humaine , the novel Emile Zola 1870. < , Experiments in Terror with Lee Remick, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are other dramas, often expensive and high-profile projects, if not always profitable, from the studio.
Blackboard Jungle (1955) is a horror movie about teenage anxiety. Unlike the relatively uncommon white bread Rebel Without Causes and The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle handles racial conflict directly when Ford plays an idealistic but harassed teacher from an urban high school. that includes very young Sidney Poitier and other black and Hispanic cast members. Scattered white children are also there, especially played by Vic Morrow, who describes the new phenomenon, juvenile delinquency. Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" under the opening credits is the first use of a rock and roll song in a Hollywood movie. Richard Brooks, film writer and director, has found music when he heard Ford's son, Peter, playing footage at Glenn's home.
In Interrupted Melody, she starred with Eleanor Parker, and the Western with whom she would always be associated including Jubal , The Gunestive Alive , Cowboy , The Secret of Convict Lake with Gene Tierney, and what will be classic 3:10 to Yuma , and Cimarron .
Ford's flexibility also allowed him to star in a number of popular comedies, almost always as besieged, meaningless, but unbroken men, governed by circumstances, as in The Teahouse of the August Moon, where he played an American soldier sent to Okinawa to change the inhabitants of the island occupied to the American lifestyle, and even changed by them. Also, he starred in The Gazebo , Crying for Happiness , Dating from Eddie's Dad , and naval themed with Gia Scala.
In 1978, Ford had a supporting role in Superman, as Clark Kent's adoptive father, Jonathan Kent, the role that introduced Ford to a new generation of movie audiences. In the last scene of Ford in the movie, the theme song of Blackboard Jungle, "Rock Around the Clock", was heard on the car radio.
Later military service
Unusual for World War II veterans, who were mostly only too happy to be settled by war, Ford joined for the third time in 1958. He entered the US Naval Reserve, commissioned as lieutenant commander and made public. Officer of the affair - ironically, the very position he described the previous year in a successful comedy Do not Go Near the Water . During his annual training, he promotes the Navy through radio and television broadcasts, personal appearances, and documentary films.
Ford continued to combine his film career with his military service, and was promoted to commander in 1963 and captain in 1968, after he left for Vietnam in 1967 for a monthly office trip as a reconnaissance site for a battle scene in a training film entitled Global Marine . To support the escalation of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson against the Vietnam War, he traveled with a combat camera crew from the demilitarized zone to the south to the Mekong Delta. For his services in Vietnam, the Navy gave him the Navy Commendation Award. He eventually retired from the Naval Reserves in the 1970s on the rank of captain. He was awarded the Marine Corps Ribbon Reserves, which recognizes those who spend 10 years of respectable reserve services.
Television
In 1971, Ford signed a contract with CBS to star in his first television series, a half-hour comedy/drama titled The Glenn Ford Show . However, CBS chief Fred Silverman noticed that many of the films featured at the Glenn Ford film festival are Westerners. He suggested doing a Western series, on the contrary, that produced the "modern Western" series, Cade's County . Ford played Sheriff Cade in the southwest for a season (1971-1972) in a mixture of police mysteries and western dramas.
In Family Holvak (1975-1976), Ford describes a depressor era depression in the family drama, repeating the same character he played in the TV movie The Greatest Gift .
In 1978 Ford hosted, a series of documentary serial presenters and narratives 'When Havoc Struck'.
In 1981, Ford starred with Melissa Sue Anderson in the film "Happy Birthday to Me".
In 1991, Ford agreed to star in the cable network series, African Skies . However, before the start of the series, he developed a blood clot in his leg that took a long time at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Eventually, he recovered, but at some point the situation was so severe that he was listed in critical condition. Ford was forced out of the series and replaced by Robert Mitchum.
The 2006 film Superman Returns included a scene in which Ma Kent (played by Eva Marie Saint) was standing next to the living room fireplace after Superman returned from her quest to find Krypton's remains. Over the fireplace was a photograph of Glenn Ford as Pa Kent.
Radio
In 1950, Ford played a leading role in the Christopher London Adventure, created by Erle Stanley Gardner and directed by William N. Robson. London is a private detective in the weekly adventure series, which takes place on Sunday at 7 pm. on the NBC radio network between January and April 1950.
Personal life
Ford's first wife was actress and dancer Eleanor Powell (1943-1959), with whom she had her only child, actor Peter Ford (born 1945). The couple appeared together on screen just once, in a short film produced in the 1950s titled Have Faith in Our Children . When they got married, Powell was more famous than Ford. Ford dated Christiane Schmidtmer during the mid-1960s, but later married actress Kathryn Hays (1966-1969); Cynthia Hayward (1977-1984), and Jeanne Baus (1993-1994). The four marriages ended in divorce. Ford did not get along well with his ex-wife, except for Cynthia Hayward, with whom he remained close to his death. He also had a long-term relationship with actress Hope Lange in the early 1960s, though they never married.
At the peak of his fame, Glenn Ford supports the Democratic Party. He supported Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940s, Adlai Stevenson II in 1956, and John F. Kennedy in 1960. Ford later turned his support to the Republican Party. He is campaigning for his old friend and fellow actor Ronald Reagan, who will be a successful Republican candidate in the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections.
Ford tried to buy the Atlanta Flames in May 1980 with the aim of keeping the National Hockey League team in town. He is ready to match the $ 14 million offer made by Byron and Daryl Seaman, but is defeated by an investment group led by Nelson Skalbania and includes Seaman brothers who earned a $ 16 million franchise on May 23 and eventually transfer it to Calgary.
Ford lives in Beverly Hills, California, where he illegally keeps 140 leghorn cocks until he is stopped by the Beverly Hills Police Department.
Death
Ford suffered from a series of light strokes that made it weak in health in the years leading up to his death. He died at his home in Beverly Hills on August 30, 2006, at the age of 90.
Awards
After being nominated in 1957 and 1958, in 1962, Ford won the Golden Globe Award as Best Actor for his performance in Frank Capra Pocketful of Miracles .
Ford was listed on Quigley's Year List of the Top Ten Box Office Champions in 1956, 1958 and 1959, topping the list at number one in 1958.
In 1958 Ford won the Golden Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance for his role at Do not Go Near the Water .
For his contribution to the film industry, Ford has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Blvd. In 1978, he was inducted into the Western Performing Hall of Fame at National Cowboy & amp; Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1987, he received the Donostia Prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and in 1992, he was awarded the LÃÆ' Â © gion d'honneur medal for his actions in the Second World War.
Ford is scheduled to make his first public appearance in 15 years at a 90th anniversary gala in honor by the American Cinematheque at the Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on May 1, 2006, but at the last minute, he had to retreat. Anticipating that his health might prevent his presence, Ford the previous week recorded a special movie message for the audience, which filtered after a series of live tributes from friends including Martin Landau, Shirley Jones, Jamie Farr, and Debbie Reynolds.
On October 4, 2008, Peter Ford auctioned off some of his father's belongings, including Ford's lacquer cowboy boots ($ 2,500 opening bid), Ford's jacket and hat from the White Tower ($ 400), his wool coat of < i> Young Man With Ideas ($ 300), and United States Navy uniform cap ($ 250). The auction also offers a sofa where senior Ford allegedly claimed to have a romantic encounter with Marilyn Monroe ($ 1750).
Movieography
The box office rating
For several years, Quigley Publishers Quotes Publisher rated Ford as one of the most popular stars in the US:
- 1955 - 12 most popular
- 1956 - 5 most popular
- 1957 - 16 most popular
- 1958 - first most popular (also most popular in the UK)
- 1959 - 6 most popular
- 1960 - 12 most popular
- 1961 - 15 most popular
- 1962 - 21 most popular
Radio appearance
References
Note
Bibliography
External links
- Glenn Ford on IMDb
- Glenn Ford in the TCM Movie Database
- Glenn Ford on Broadway Internet Database
- Official website
- The official family approved website for fans to offer their condolences
- Photos and letters
- The stars remember Glenn Ford at 100 Omaha World-Herald, May, 2016
- Glenn Ford at Discover the Mausoleum
- Glenn Ford's photographs of "Gilda" and other 1940 films by Ned Scott
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