Quotes
 My life has been too exciting, too wonderful to let anything
else, and that includes acting, to come first." "One`s chronological age has nothing to do with anything; marriage is a lost word; it has absolutely no meaning today."
"My brother had all these strange, wonderful people around him, And once I had seen them, once I had seen New
York, well, what the hell was I going to do in Mississippi? Marry a shoe
salesman?"
I made so many terrible movies in Hollywood
Oh, Errol Flynn, I`ve never had the yen. Victor Mature? Don`t know him well but believe Dorothy Parker, a good friend of mine, summed it up well when she said, "He acts as though his body has gone to his head!" My favorite actor of course is Orson Welles. He`s wonderful, magnificent, a darling, and I adore him. I like Humphrey Bogart, too. He`s just as nice as he can be and looks just the same all the time. Ingrid Bergman? She`s just as beautiful and natural off the screen as she is on and is admired by everyone. But one of the nicest people in Hollywood is William Faulkner, who I had known in Mississippi when I was getting my Masters Degree in Philosophy at the University there."
Trivia
For more than 40 years, Ms. Ford`s apartment in the Dakota - the gabled,
fortresslike building on the northwest corner of 72nd Street that was built
in the 1880s - welcomed the likes of William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams,
Edward Albee, Terrence McNally and Truman Capote.
If Ms. Ford had lived in another century, she would have been one of the great salonnieres of all time, the lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim told People magazine in 1975.
For a time in the 1970s, Ms. Ford`s companion was a man half her age, Dotson
Rader, the author of, among other books, "I Ain`t Marchin` Anymore," a
recounting of the campus revolution of the `60s.
In 1959 Ms. Ford starred in the only play
written by Faulkner, "Requiem for a Nun," based on one of his early novels, "Sanctuary."
Dark-haired and delicate, Ms. Ford had arrived in New York from her native
Mississippi in the mid-1930s and was soon modeling for famous photographers,
including Carl Van Vechten, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton. Her image appeared in
Harper`s, Mademoiselle and Vogue. The surrealist Russian painter Pavel
Tchelitchew did a portrait of her.
Ms. Ford`s entry into New York`s cultural scene was eased by her brother,
Charles Henri Ford, a poet, novelist and artist who was already well known
among the bohemian crowd and who was long the lover of Tchelitchew.
Sister of bohemian surrealist Charles Henri (Henry) Ford.
Former fashion model.
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