Ruth Ford 07/07/1911 - 12/08/2009



Obituary, Daily Telegraph:



Ruth Ford, who has died aged 98, was an actress on stage and screen, but was best-known for the salon she created at her apartment in the Dakota Building in New York; she counted William Faulkner, Cecil Beaton, Truman Capote and Andy Warhol among her friends......



After appearing in a succession of plays she went to Hollywood, starring in Welles's comedy TOO MUCH JOHNSON opposite her then boyfriend Joseph Cotten.



She was in Tex Ritter's Western ROARING FRONTIERS and the crime serial SECRETS OF THE LONE WOLF (both 1941) and was signed by Warner Brothers.



In 1942, she played in a string of forgettable films, inspiring Tennessee Williams to describe her as "the Bernhardt of Grade B pictures".



In 1945, she moved to 20th Century Fox, which cast her as the lead opposite John Loder in ADVENTURES IN IRAQ. She also gave a firm performance as Woodrow Wilson's daughter Margaret in WILSON, and again played opposite Loder in a horror film, THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK....



During the 1960s she returned to Hollywood, appearing in films including ACT ONE (1964), with George Hamilton, and Joan Didion's PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1972), with Anthony Perkins.



She was still making films in the 1980s, among them Frederick King Keller's homage to Ingmar Bergman, THE EYES OF THE AMARYLLIS (1982) and TOO SCARED TO SCREAM (1985), in which she played Irma.....