Glenn Ford: (Jerry Skinner Documentary) — Transcript

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1. 0:10this is gin Samuel Newton
2. 0:14Ford better known to the world as the
3. 0:17actor Glenn
4. 0:19Ford Glenn was born the 1st of May 196
5. 0:24in Quebec
6. 0:26Canada he became a naturalized US
7. 0:28citizen in 19 and
8. 0:3139 Glenn's dad was Newton Ford he worked
9. 0:35for the Canadian railroad system and his
10. 0:39mother Hannah was a doting mother to
11. 0:42Glenn and later would become a typical
12. 0:45stage mother it's been said that the
13. 0:48most influential woman in Glenn Ford's
14. 0:52life was his mother
15. 0:55Hannah when Glenn was 7 years old they
16. 0:58moved from Canada to
17. 1:01California now this is a picture in
18. 1:041922 of Glenn holding a puppy in
19. 1:08Venice two years later in
20. 1:101924 they moved to Santa Monica Glenn
21. 1:13attended Santa Monica High School there
22. 1:17he participated in school plays and
23. 1:19found that he loved acting after
24. 1:22graduating in
25. 1:241934 he continued acting with small
26. 1:27groups for another five years in the
27. 1:30meantime he worked construction jobs
28. 1:33learning electrical and cartry skills
29. 1:36that he used around the house years
30. 1:38later even after he had become a
31. 1:42star finally Glenn was spotted by a
32. 1:44talent scout and signed with Columbia
33. 1:47pictures that was run by Harry
34. 1:50con he stayed loyal to Harry con and
35. 1:53Columbia pictures as a contract player
36. 1:56until
37. 1:581955
38. 2:00in
39. 2:021939 Glen performed in his debut staring
40. 2:06role in heaven with a bobir fence along
41. 2:10with Jean Rogers although Ford was
42. 2:13making some money and signing autographs
43. 2:17for adoring young women he was still
44. 2:19living with and taking care of his
45. 2:22mother by this time he had already
46. 2:25changed his name to Glenn
47. 2:27Ford after his dad's home town in
48. 2:31Canada a few months before World War II
49. 2:34started Ford actually had joined the
50. 2:37Coast Guard auxiliary during the war he
51. 2:40joined the Marines eventually years
52. 2:42later he ended up a lieutenant commander
53. 2:45and public affairs officer in the naval
54. 2:50Reserve during their party supporting a
55. 2:52bun Drive in 1943 during the war Glenn's
56. 2:57introduced by his friend p an O'Brien to
57. 3:01Elanor
58. 3:03pow at the time Elanor pow was a world
59. 3:06famous
60. 3:08star she was not only more famous than
61. 3:10Glenn but she was making a lot more
62. 3:14money they quickly became a couple on
63. 3:17the 23rd of October
64. 3:201943 while Glenn was still in the
65. 3:22Marines Glenn and Ellen are pow
66. 3:27married at the time she was living at
67. 3:29home with her mother and he was living
68. 3:31with his but not long afterwards they
69. 3:35moved into this 22 room Mansion at 1036
70. 3:39coveway in Beverly
71. 3:43Hills at the age of 33 and at the top of
72. 3:46her profession elanar gave it all up to
73. 3:50become a housewife and mother upsetting
74. 3:53her studio and many of her
75. 3:56fans two years later on February the 5th
76. 3:5919 19 45 their only son Peter was
77. 4:05born one year after Peter's birth Glenn
78. 4:09Ford becomes a Hollywood
79. 4:12star that movie that did it for him was
80. 4:16Gilda co-star and Hollywood pinup girl
81. 4:20Rita Hayward Glenn and Rita would later
82. 4:23form a relationship that would last for
83. 4:2540
84. 4:27years after Gilda Glen stardom was
85. 4:30steadily rising and in 1954 he starred
86. 4:34in Blackboard Jungle with Sydney porier
87. 4:38and Vic moral for
88. 4:40MGM in
89. 4:421956 he starred with Marlon Brando in
90. 4:46Tea House of the August Moon also in
91. 4:501956 Ford made a western called jubil
92. 4:54with Ernest
93. 4:55Borgnine a year later in
94. 4:571957 he played a villain
95. 5:00in 310 to Yuma in
96. 5:031958 Glenn Ford was the top box office
97. 5:07star in
98. 5:09Hollywood and the money was pouring
99. 5:12in that same year he made one of his
100. 5:15Best Westerns cowboy with Jack Lemon the
101. 5:20next year in 1959 after 16 years of
102. 5:24marriage Helena pow files for divorce
103. 5:28their only child while Peter was 14 at
104. 5:32the
105. 5:33time his parents' relationship had been
106. 5:36strained for
107. 5:38years she devoted her attention to Peter
108. 5:41and L to her husband and he devoted much
109. 5:45of his attention to other women and
110. 5:48caused her to feel left
111. 5:51out with elener living on the top floor
112. 5:54of the mansion and Glenn on the bottom
113. 5:56floor and little Peter and his
114. 5:59grandmother Hannah in the middle
115. 6:02floor with everyone living Separate
116. 6:05Lives had naturally caused tension
117. 6:08throughout the
118. 6:09family although Glenn Ford was not
119. 6:12considered a nurturing father it is
120. 6:16funny to me that the two Father and Son
121. 6:20worked together through the
122. 6:22years even to Peter having a part on
123. 6:25Cades County a TV series that Glenn
124. 6:28started in in the 70s for a movie star
125. 6:33this shows love a way of keeping someone
126. 6:36close to him without having to admit it
127. 6:40after the divorce from Glenn elanar pow
128. 6:43never remarried and never again had a
129. 6:46serious romantic relationship she
130. 6:48continued doing charity work and her
131. 6:51greatest love was her son
132. 6:53Peter on the 11th of February
133. 6:571982 movie star and mother Elanor po
134. 7:02died of uon cancer after a long hard
135. 7:06battle her ashes was placed in a bronze
136. 7:10box at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in
137. 7:15Hollywood elanar pow according to Freddy
138. 7:18stair said that she was the best Daner
139. 7:22ever in Hollywood including
140. 7:25him elanar pal Ford was was 69 years old
141. 7:32after Glen and ellena's
142. 7:35divorce he renewed his romance with Rita
143. 7:39Hayward even buying a building site from
144. 7:42her so that he could build his new home
145. 7:44next to her located at 911 Oxford Way in
146. 7:48Beverly
147. 7:49Hills although Rita was married at the
148. 7:52time she soon
149. 7:54divorced Glenn they say cut a door in
150. 7:58his back fence so that Rita could come
151. 8:00over without being
152. 8:04seen although they each married
153. 8:06different people through the years they
154. 8:09always remain close and on the 14th of
155. 8:13May
156. 8:151987 Rita Hayward died from
157. 8:19complications of
158. 8:21Alzheimer's she died 19 years before
159. 8:25Glenn she rest at the Hollywood Cross
160. 8:28Cemetery in Culver City
161. 8:31California Rita
162. 8:33Hayward was 68 years old and Glenn
163. 8:38Ford was her paw
164. 8:42bear seven years after divorcing Elena
165. 8:45pow Ford married actress Katherine Hayes
166. 8:49in March of
167. 8:511966 now you may recall her from a
168. 8:55longtime running soap opera by the name
169. 8:58of as the world turns she played Kim
170. 9:03Hughes Glenn Ford and Katherine Hayes
171. 9:06were divorced in June of
172. 9:091969 in 1977 Ford May Cynthia Hayward a
173. 9:14model and was her second marriage and
174. 9:17she was 30 and Glenn was
175. 9:2162 the two were divorced in
176. 9:241984 of all of his Ex-Wives he said that
177. 9:28Cynthia was the only only one that he
178. 9:30remained in good terms with this is
179. 9:32Stephanie Powers on the left with
180. 9:35Glenn's closest friend William Holden
181. 9:39and Glenn and
182. 9:42Cynthia Glenn became involved with
183. 9:45Pauline kernin she served as his nurse
184. 9:48for the next seven years according to
185. 9:51Peter Ford Glenn's son his dead was very
186. 9:55trusting when it came to young beautiful
187. 9:58women gave Pauline his nurse a wheel
188. 10:02leaving everyone out but her Peter tells
189. 10:06in his book that's called Glenn Ford a
190. 10:09life how he had to go to court to fight
191. 10:12to protect his Dead's interest even to
192. 10:15keeping his
193. 10:17nurses from placing a no resuscitation
194. 10:20order on his Hospital door against his
195. 10:24dad's will Peter tells of Glenn's love
196. 10:28for H Lang and many others Glenn's last
197. 10:32marriage was to Genie B 5 March
198. 10:371993 Glenn was 76 years old at the time
199. 10:41of the marriage and she was 40 years
200. 10:43younger than him they divorced within a
201. 10:47year in
202. 10:481994 Glenn asked his son and family to
203. 10:52move in to help take care of him which
204. 10:55they
205. 10:55did he had suffered a series of strokes
206. 10:58and was was confined mostly to his bed
207. 11:01and
208. 11:02wheelchair his mental and physical
209. 11:05health have been declining for years in
210. 11:08his book Peter Ford said that he
211. 11:11believed his dead started drinking after
212. 11:14his divorce from his mother and through
213. 11:16the years he had grown
214. 11:18worse on August the
215. 11:2130th 2006 around 400 p.m. in the
216. 11:25afternoon paramedics were called to
217. 11:28Glenn Ford's home
218. 11:29in Beverly
219. 11:31Hills the veteran actor was
220. 11:35dead he was interred at the Woodland
221. 11:38Memorial Cemetery in Santa Monica
222. 11:42California he asked to be buried with
223. 11:45his the ashes of his beautiful and
224. 11:48beloved dog
225. 11:51bismar Glenn Ford was 90 years
226. 11:58old
227. 12:00[Music]