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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006), known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-born American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.
Ford was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Canadian-American actor Glenn Ford and American actress-dancer Eleanor Powell.As a child Ford's interest in rock and roll music inadvertently contributed to "Rock Around the Clock" being chosen as the title track for Blackboard Jungle.
In Gilda (1946), Macready's character Ballin Mundson enters a deadly love triangle with characters played by co-stars Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. He again played opposite Ford several years later in the postwar adventure The Green Glove (1952). Macready played the villain Younger Miles in the 1948 Randolph Scott film “Coroner Creek”.
She then appeared in Frank Capra's final movie, Pocketful of Miracles, with Glenn Ford (for whom she had left her husband, fellow actor Don Murray). The next year, she co-starred with Ford again, in the romantic comedy Love Is a Ball. [2] Lange returned to television for a 1966 role on the series The Fugitive (1963).
Pocketful of Miracles is a 1961 American comedy film starring Glenn Ford and Bette Davis, produced and directed by Frank Capra, filmed in Panavision.The screenplay by Hal Kanter and Harry Tugend was based on Robert Riskin's screenplay for the 1933 film Lady for a Day, which was adapted from the 1929 Damon Runyon short story "Madame La Gimp".
Hayworth and Glenn Ford on the filming set of Gilda. Hayworth also had an intermittent, long-term relationship with Glenn Ford, which started during the filming of Gilda in 1945, and continued through each other's numerous marriages. [72] Their relationship is documented in the 2011 biography Glenn Ford: A Life by Ford's son, Peter Ford.
Marshall then received an offer from MGM, who were then being run by Sol Siegel, to direct Glenn Ford in a Western, The Sheepman (1958). It was a hit, so he stayed at the studio to direct Imitation General (1959), with Ford; The Mating Game (1959) with Debbie Reynolds; and It Started with a Kiss (1959) and The Gazebo (1959), both with Reynolds ...
Glenn Ford, director Joseph H. Lewis and Barry Kelley on the set of The Undercover Man. The film was based on an article titled "He Trapped Capone," the first part of the autobiography Undercover Man by Federal Agent Frank J. Wilson, which was serialized in Collier's in 1947. Many details were fictionalized.