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Glenn Ford: Columbia Pictures
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After being nominated in 1957 and 1958, in 1962 Glenn Ford won a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor for his performance in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles. He was listed in Quigley's Annual List of Top Ten Boxoffice Champions in 1956, 1958 and 1959, topping the list at number one in 1958. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Glenn Ford has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Blvd. In 1978, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1987 he received the Donostia Award in the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and in 1992 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur medal for his actions in the Second World War.
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Columbia Pictures' first color production was this fine western starring Randolph Scott as a Utah lawman who helps outlaw pal Glenn Ford go straight. When a local bank is robbed, Ford is the suspect, but Scott believes others are involved and must find the true criminals. With Evelyn Keyes, Edgar Buchanan and Claire Trevor.
CEO of Arizona Movie Studios, Dwight Brooks, started his motion picture career as an actor, receiving help from James Stewart and Glenn Ford. Director John Ford and Director/Producer Alfred Hitchcock both mentored Dwight as he learned and developed his directing skills. Mr. Brooks has been a member of the Academy of Arts and Science for over 40 years and since 1968 served as a Blue Ribbon Panel Judge for the Prime Time Emmy Awards. Mr. Brooks has been on the board of governors for the Hollywood Motion Picture Association since 1968 and is presently serving a third term as its President. Dwight Brooks ... takes time to serve as Chairman of the Board for The Arizona Museum. Mr. Brooks has produced and directed 25 successful feature motion pictures.
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In 1942, Ford's film career was interrupted when he volunteered for duty in World War II with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve on 13 December as a photographic specialist at the rank of sergeant. He was assigned in March 1943 to active duty at the Marine Corps Base in San Diego. He was sent to Marine Corps Schools Detachment (Photographic Section) in Quantico, Virginia, that June, with orders as a motion-picture production technician. Sergeant Ford returned to the San Diego base in February 1944 and was assigned next to the radio section of the Public Relations Office, Headquarters Company, Base Headquarters Battalion. There he staged and broadcast the radio program Halls of Montezuma. Glenn Ford was honorably discharged from the Marines on 7 December 1944.
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After Columbia pictures head Harry Cohn convinced him to change his name, Ford chose the first name Glenn in honour of his father's birthplace in Glenford. He made his first Hollywood film opposite Jean Rogers in the romance Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence in 1939 and appeared in five films in 1940.
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Of those three great men, only one now survives: Glenn Ford. Having recently enjoyed his 87th birthday, Glenn still leads as active a life as his health allows, and continues to follow current events with a keen mind and a strong sense of what he feels is right and wrong with a troubled modern world. Perhaps it is only natural that a man who takes such pride in his place in the world has enjoyed a career that demonstrated not only great skill, but the virtuosity of being an actor for all seasons. And in all this, picture a gentle man who was happy to enjoy a Wednesday night poker game, or to go horseback riding with his son, Peter, along with Bill Holden and his two boys, or to take in the Friday night fights with Robert Walker. The sort of fellow who was often content to keep his own company; this is a screen idol you could idolize and yet still enjoy a quiet word, if you were fortunate enough to meet him on the street.
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