Friday, May 1, 2009

Birthdays: Glenn Ford

Born May 1, 1916; died August 30, 2006. As an indication of Ford's greatness -- he is a highly underrated actor -- take the three amazingly contrasted performances he gave over a three-year period in Delmer Daves Westerns: Jubal (1956), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), Cowboy (1958). Now that's a run.

I love this quote of Ford's: "Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis."