Ford's versatility allowed him to star in a number of popular comedies, almost always as the beleaguered, well-meaning, but nonplussed straight man, set upon by circumstances as in The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956), in which he played an American soldier sent to Okinawa to convert the occupied island's natives to the American way of life, and is instead converted by them. David Glagovsky . Ford's affair with stripper and cult actress Liz Renay was chronicled by her in the 1991 book My First 2,000 Men. She later divorced him in 1959 on the grounds of adultery and mental cruelty. 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). Although he played in many genres of movies, some of his most significant roles were in the film noirs Gilda (1946) and The Big Heat (1953), and the high school angst film Blackboard Jungle (1955). However, all four marriages would end in divorce. (1956). Director: Ricardo Cortez | Stars: Jean Rogers, Raymond Walburn, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenn Ford Votes: 286 Eventually, he recovered, but at one time his situation was so severe that he was listed in critical condition. Ford's box office standing recovered with the thriller Experiment in Terror (1962) and the comedy The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963). New Book Exposes Glenn Ford-Rita Hayworth Love Child. [24]. "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. Though without the combat duty he had been hoping for, Ford was awarded several service medals for his three years in the Marines Reserve Corps: American Campaign Medal and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal, created in 1945 for anyone who had been on active duty since December 1941. Glenn Ford: A Life (Wisconsin Film Studies). With his Coast Guard service, he was offered a position as an officer, but Ford declined, feeling it would be interpreted as preferential treatment for a movie star and instead entered the Marines as a private. However, he subsequently married actress Kathryn Hays (1966–1969); marriages to Cynthia Hayward (1977–1984), and Jeanne Baus (1993–1994) would later follow. He did some comedies: Cry for Happy (1961) with Marshall and Pocketful of Miracles (1961), with Frank Capra, neither of which was as well received as his fifties comedies. Ford, Peter. On that day in 1974, their lives changed completely — and, unlike most children of presidents, unexpectedly. There were quite a few of these types of shorts made back in the day and this one here isn't really any better or worse than the others. 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, on-and off-again affair with Rita Hayworth that began during the filming of Gilda in 1945. New York store clerk (Ford) joins a hobo (Conte) and an illegal immigrant (Rogers) heading for his newly bought land in Arizona. Back at Columbia he was in Gallant Journey (1946) a biopic of John Joseph Montgomery then he did a thriller Framed (1947) and a comedy The Mating of Millie (1948). ISBN 978-0-7864-6403-6. Ford's career went up another notch when cast in the lead of Blackboard Jungle (1955), a landmark film of teen angst at MGM.

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