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Glenn Ford—star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Rounders—had rugged good looks, a long and successful career, and a glamorous Hollywood life. Yet the man who could be accessible and charming on screen retreated to a deeply private world he created behind closed doors.
Glenn Ford: A Life chronicles the volatile life, relationships, and career of the renowned actor, beginning with his move from Canada to California and his initial discovery of theater. It follows Ford’s career in diverse media—from film to television to radio—and shows how Ford shifted effortlessly between genres, playing major roles in dramas, noir, westerns, and romances.
This biography by Glenn Ford’s son, Peter Ford, offers an intimate view of a star’s private and public life. Included are exclusive interviews with family, friends, and professional associates, and snippets from the Ford family collection of diaries, letters, audiotapes, unpublished interviews, and rare candid photos. This biography tells a cautionary tale of Glenn Ford’s relentless infidelities and long, slow fade-out, but it also embraces his talent-driven career. The result is an authentic Hollywood story that isn’t afraid to reveal the truth.

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"A frank portrait of a conflicted man and a respected star of Golden Age Hollywood. . . . Peter succeeds in objectively revisiting his father's life and work while peeling back without fear the painful layers in their mutual history. . . . This biography should rank with Maria Riva's Marlene Dietrich as one of the best examples of a family biography and should appeal to film scholars and film fans alike."--Library Journal

"Glenn Ford never got the respect he deserved for being a tough, straight-ahead actor who always had a way of rising to the occasion demanded by Fritz Lang or Vincente Minnelli. His son's biography is a welcome tribute to a conflicted man and an often overlooked star."--Scott Eyman, author of Pieces of My Heart

"Glenn Ford was a perfect gentleman, educated and kind. When called upon to perform, he was a hell of an actor."--Mickey Rooney

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Peter Ford appeared in eight films with his father, Glenn Ford, as well as many other movies, television shows, and stage productions. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR; Illustrated Edition (12. Mai 2011)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
Taschenbuch ‏ : ‎ 345 Seiten
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 029928154X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0299281540
Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 22.86 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm

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A great book about a great actor !

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This book is very well-written about an actor who was amazing- talented, great-looking, with tons of charisma. I love Glenn Ford + it was a big treat to read this book!

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A vida das stars de Hollywood sempre me interessou

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Un attore ed un uomo

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Getting to know Glenn Ford

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A good read. I do like film star biographies and Peter Ford does a fine job telling his father’s story. I’m half way through and so far so good.

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Glenn Ford, Glenn Ford, he's an actor few remember right now, though in his heyday he was a top box office star--the #1 world star in 1958. He has some fervent admirers, who claim that it wasn't his fault he was in so many terrible movies. Peter Ford, the only son of the actor, has written a tremendous book that works both as indictment and celebration of the studio system/ Columbia owned him pure and simple, and dictated what parts he would play and who would direct him. The first thirty or forty pictures that he made were pretty undistinguished, but they allowed him to learn his craft. They would have sunk a lesser man, but eventually he--and his phantom twin counterpart, William Holden, also a Columbia contract player--eventually Ford became a star, and viewers who liked him in Gilda (1944) didn't really care what he was in, they just wanted more of his tough guy ways.

Ford was a man of the flesh, who believed in availing himself of the many offers he received from co-stars and lesser lights. It seems as though he fell in love often too, something of a Canadian romantic. His affairs with Geraldine Brooks and Hope Lange gave him more pain than pleasure. He was always on the make, and confided details of his lovemaking to his son, and the stories make for amazing reading. When he was young, for example, he played in a movie adaptation of one of Jack London's autobiographical novels. The studio brought in sixtyish Charmian London, Jack London's widow, to coach Glenn Ford, and Charmian liked what she saw. Love these cougar stories! In the 1950s he recalled John Barrymore's advice (that an actor should always go for the evil parts) and acquitted himself admirably, becoming one of the few leading men of noir to also enjoy a career as a good guy too. He seemed like he could flip easily. When just a nobody, or practically so, he had married one of the leading ladies of MGM musicals--the tap dancer Eleanor Powell, three years his senior, and soon enough he had slipped into a pattern where he could work his marriage for publicity reasons, and forget it when it wasn't convenient. Did he resent Powell for being (initially) the bigger star? He certainly treated her like a convenience. At the same time, his son grew up both resenting his dad for his cheating ways, while admiring him as a role model, and as a fine actor.

Harry Cohn strung Glenn Ford along as hard as he could, promising him the top parts the studio had to offer in order to get Ford to sign on the dotted line one more time. And then he'd pull the rug out. So William Holden and Judy Holliday played in Born Yesterday, instead of Ford and Rita Hayworth; and Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr starred in From Here to Eternity, and not Ford and Hayworth. The reader starts to live in an alternate film universe, one in which Glenn Ford would have been in great movies, instead of so many sucky ones. Of course he played in some terrific movies, but I think no other great star had such a low percentage of critical successes. He was the Steven Seagal of--well, of the movies. Except he could act better. One of the best movie star biographies of recent years, GLENN FORD A LIFE has only one basic flaw, we never find out why Ford, the man who had everything, was such a cheap, vindictive creep to those who loved him best. It is a tale of pity and woe, without sentiment, nor transcendence.

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