Ruth Ford (actress)
Ruth Ford (* July 7, 1911 in Brookhaven, Mississippi; † August 12, 2009 in New York City, New York ) was an American actress. Her brother was the American poet, artist and filmmaker Charles Henri Ford, who has been called the " most prominent Surrealist America."
Life
Ruth Ford studied at the University of Mississippi, where she became friends with the writer and later Nobel Prize in Literature - winner William Faulkner. Mid-30s, she moved to New York, was a model for Harper 's Bazaar, Mademoiselle and Vogue and actress, including Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. In 1938 she went to Hollywood and made her film debut in Too Much Johnson. Three years later, she played her first leading role in Secrets of the Lone Wolf. In 1942, she starred opposite Marlene Dietrich in Miss Mama.
Ford, who participated mainly in B- movies, came from the late 1940s, almost exclusively in television productions and the theater. Faulkner wrote for them in his single, premiered in 1959 on Broadway stage play Requiem for a Now the role of Temple Drake. They still played in more than a dozen Broadway productions, including 1962 in the world premiere of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Does not Stop Here Anymore. In 1985, she was The Rat Race the last time in front of the camera in the film.
Since the sixties until her death Ruth Ford was in her apartment in New York's Dakota Building hosted a famous salon, to which she invited people such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Truman Capote, Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein regularly. She was married in first marriage to actor Peter van Eyck and from 1952 until his death in 1965, with Zachary Scott. She had with van Eyck a later adopted by Scott daughter, Shelly.