Actress. She appeared in feature films, on stage and television from the late-1930’s until the mid-1980’s. Her parents were proprietors of a string of hotels in the south, so she spent her childhood moving from one town to another. After attending the University of Mississippi, she moved to New York and enjoyed a successful modeling career appearing in such publications as Vogue, Town and Country and Harper’s. With aspirations of becoming an actress, she landed a role in Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre stage production “The Shoemakers’ Holiday” in 1938 followed by the production “Danton’s Death” (1938). A career in Hollywood would soon follow with her big screen debut in the 1938 picture “Too Much Johnson”. Over the next forty-five years, she would alternate between stage and screen. Among her other film credits are “Roaring Frontiers” (1941), “Men of the Sky” (1942) and “The Woman Who Came Back” (1945). In 1959, she collaborated with author William Faulkner (with whom she befriended at the University of Mississippi) to stage his novel “Requiem for a Nun”. Her other notable stage credits include “Clutterbuck”, Tennessee Williams’ “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore”, “The Grass Harp” and “Harold and Maude”. Ford’s residence at New York City’s Dakota Apartments was often a meeting place for such personalities as Edward Albee, Terrence McNally and Truman Capote. She was married to actors Peter van Eyck (1911-1969) and Zachary Scott. (bio by: C.S.)  Family links:  Spouse:  Zachary Scott (1914 – 1965) Inscription:Actress–Muse