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Title: Glenn Ford
Subtitle: A Life
Author: Peter Ford
Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-27-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes
Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios
Publisher's Summary:
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 Fords 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 Fords son, Peter Ford, offers an intimate view of a stars 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friends, and professional associates, and snippets from the Ford family collection of diaries, letters, audiotapes, and unpublished interviews. This biography tells a cautionary tale of Glenn Fords relentless infidelities and long, slow fade-out, but it also embraces his talent-driven career. The result is an authentic Hollywood story that isnt afraid to reveal the truth.
Members Reviews:
Not As Great As Other Reviews Said
I'm afraid it's boring, containing a litany of his many many movies, complete with mind-numbing listings of cast, director, producer, screenwriter, screenwriter who redid the script, cameraman, and studio head, etc. Every time a film was mentioned I said, "Not this again." I found him, like many stars, uninteresting in real life. A serial philanderer may have been fascinating in the 50s or 60s but not today.
I knew I would not like him very much, early in the book, when he pretended he was a combat veteran and war hero by repeatedly showing his son films of himself in pretend combat, saying "Look son, there's Daddy!" and fooling him into believing he'd been at war. He served at Camp Pendleton near San Diego and did not see active duty. His son said, among other negative things about him, that he was terribly spoiled and made up stories about his life that others never checked the veracity of. Owning homes in Tahiti and France. Meeting Churchill. Being a racehorse breeder. It sounds as if, beneath all the glory piled onto him because of his career, he was a very insecure person.
There is really very little of Glenn Ford in this book and what is there paints a portrait of someone who is very hard to admire in any way, a man who also was not much of a father. After reading his history with women, including his wife Eleanor Powell who seemed very nice but allowed him to physically and emotionally abuse her, it was hard to have sympathy as he picked young women who used him. That Eleanor Powell struggled financially, "barely hanging on" in a rental in South Beverly Hills, when he could have helped her more than he did, says it all.
For great celebrity biographies, try those by Kirk Douglas, Debbie Reynolds, or Carol Burnett.
Revealing and a little painful
Peter Ford has written a marvelous biography about a difficult and hard-headed father. This must have been a difficult but cathartic book to write. Glenn Ford's life was all about his never ending quest for romance which accounted for his alcohol and substance abuse.
