Ruth Ford (actress)

Ruth Ford (born July 7 1915, Hazlehurst, Mississippi) is an American former model and actress of stage and film. Her brother was the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford.

Her parents managed the Tennessee Hotel in Clarksville, Tennessee. In 1943 Ruth Ford reported to a local newspaper there that she had a two-year old daughter, Shelley, whose godfather was Orson Welles. Prior to Ford's trip west to Hollywood she was a member of Welles' Mercury Theatre. Welles' assistance helped her to land contracts with Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. studios.

As a model she posed for "Harper's", "Town and Country" and "Mademoiselle".

She married actor Peter Van Eyck in the 1940s, but the marriage was not successful. It is not known if Van Eyck was the father of her daughter, Shelley, who was born in 1941. Ford later married film star Zachary Scott and they remained together until Scott's untimely death in 1965.

Quote

* "Oh, Errol Flynn, I've never had the yen. Victor Mature? Don't know him well but believe Dorothy Parker, a good friend of mine, summed it up well when she said, "He acts as though his body has gone to his head!" My favorite actor of course is Orson Welles. He's wonderful, magnificent, a darling, and I adore him. I like Humphrey Bogart, too. He's just as nice as he can be and looks just the same all the time. Ingrid Bergman? She's just as beautiful and natural off the screen as she is on and is admired by everyone. But one of the nicest people in Hollywood is William Faulkner, who I had known in Mississippi when I was getting my Masters Degree in Philosophy at the University there." [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285864/bio Ruth Ford - Biography ] ]

References

External links

*