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Post by mattgarth on May 1, 2020 23:27:36 GMT
Born 104 years ago in Quebec, Canada.
Thanks for the films.
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Post by jervistetch on May 1, 2020 23:53:49 GMT
104?!! He told me he was 90.  Happy Birthday, Mr. Ford. Wherever you are.  |
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Post by petrolino on May 1, 2020 23:55:13 GMT
He is in my own movie hall of fame. He was eccentric; had a slightly awkward gait and unusual frame, though he was a great physical actor and great with props, like Al Pacino, which made him great for genre films. He held his cigarette in a particular way. Don't think he was nominated for an Oscar. I heard Bette Davis was in love with him but soldiered on.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 1:40:07 GMT
Funny Fords  Teahouse of the August Moon   The Sheepman
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 1:43:28 GMT
Earlier NOIR Fords  Gilda  The Big Heat |
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Post by petrolino on May 2, 2020 1:56:16 GMT
Earlier NOIR Fords
Hoe about western Fords? I've always heard he was great with a gun, like Yul Brynner and Clint Eastwood.
Here's a taste of criminal goings on in a western setting, with comedy chops, in one of the best films I ever saw, also with William Holden ...
'Texas'
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Post by Prime etc. on May 2, 2020 2:01:28 GMT
I associate him mostly with benign and thoughtful characters like in RANSOM and SUPERMAN THE MOVIE. Not sure that I have ever seen him in a villain role.
He brought an emotional anchor of considerable weight to SUPERMAN.
While Brando had the otherworldly superhuman side covered, Ford symbolized the mundane, personal and the mortal.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 2:10:37 GMT
Western Ford 3:10 to Yuma (1957)   Even as the bad guy there were scenes with that twinkle in his eye |
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 2:25:11 GMT
TV (1971-72) CADE'S COUNTY  "The adventures of Sam Cade, sheriff of rural Madrid County.: |
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Post by petrolino on May 2, 2020 2:30:49 GMT
TV (1971-72) CADE'S COUNTY "The adventures of Sam Cade, sheriff of rural Madrid County.:
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 2:34:02 GMT
Another kinder gentler Ford: Pocketful of Miracles "A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty."  
Peter Falk got an Oscar Nom for this one ! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 2:41:15 GMT
petrolinoGlenn Ford was always one of MY favorites as well. Earliest of his films that I saw were the comedies of the 1950s so it came as a surprise to me to see his "other side" in the earlier tougher darker noirs... a pleasant surprise ! Just watched THE BIG HEAT again the other night ... Classic with a capitol C !  
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Post by petrolino on May 2, 2020 2:54:25 GMT
petrolino Glenn Ford was always one of MY favorites as well. Earliest of his films that I saw were the comedies of the 1950s so it came as a surprise to me to see his "other side" in the earlier tougher darker noirs... a pleasant surprise ! Just watched THE BIG HEAT again the other night ... Classic with a capitol C ! Hey Bat - Would you consider Ford to be an all-rounder, like his friend William Holden? I'm guessing you would, based upon your postings here on this very thread. Fortunately, Holden garnered the industry accolades late on in his career, but they were two of the best in the business.
Ford does things in movies that make you double-take. That's testament enough, but there's a sincerity and magnanimity when required; truly a great performer. No doubt. And he had the raw charisma needed to be a star too;, chisel that visage in the Hollywood hills, it's emblematic of the dark, sardonic hum0ur of the post-war era.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 3:04:01 GMT
petrolinoI would put Glenn Ford high on that list of watchable in anything type actors. He had a naturalness to him that has made him not as familiar to many movie goers as maybe he deserves to be. He seems to not be acting and so isn't "flashy" and makes it all look too easy. Another western ... from 1958. 
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Post by petrolino on May 2, 2020 3:09:00 GMT
petrolino I would put Glenn Ford high on that list of watchable in anything type actors. He had a naturalness to him that has made him not as familiar to many movie goers as maybe he deserves to be. He seems to not be acting and so isn't "flashy" and makes it all look too easy. Another western ... from 1958.
Oh yeh, and he was probaby the ideal artistic collaborator for a naturalist, like the great western filmmaker Delmer Daves, who was a master of stylistic naturalism set within genre; those films still look beautiful today.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 3:16:11 GMT
petrolinoLooking back at the Western pictures and others over on Yahoo image ... have to wonder if that was his own personal favorite cowboy hat .. it seems to accompany him to a lot of films !   Jubal and same headgear ?
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Post by mattgarth on May 2, 2020 3:23:23 GMT
Villainous Ford:
THE MAN FROM COLORADO
LUST FOR GOLD
3:10 TO YUMA
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 3:29:15 GMT
Menaced by Vic Morrow in THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE  Another "high schooler" played by Sidney Poitier 
and future Corporal Klinger ~ Jameel Farah as Santini  |
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Post by mattgarth on May 2, 2020 3:31:12 GMT
Maybe he could not sing or dance
But he could do everything else
Comedies
Mysteries
Dramas
Noirs
Westerns
even Women's Weepies:
A STOLEN LIFE
INTERRUPTED MELODY
DEAR HEART
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2020 3:37:25 GMT
After having been a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary for a year, he joined the Marine Corps during WWII in December of 1942, and subsequently met first wife, tap-dancing extraordinaire Eleanor Powell, at a war-bond cavalcade. They married in 1943.  |
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