Ruth Ford
Actress

Ruth Ford Net Worth

Ruth Ford was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi in 1911. Her parents managed the Tennessee Hotel in Clarksville, Tennessee in 1943, and she had a daughter named Shelley at that time. Orson Welles was her godfather, and she was in his Mercury Theatre plays before he left for Hollywood. She was then noticed by a Hollywood playwright and signed up with Columbia Pictures and Warner Brothers. She posed for Harpers' Magazine, "Vogue", "Town and Country", and "Mademoiselle", and even appeared in the local newspaper, "The Leaf-Chronicle". Her parents noticed the article and it was on the front page the next day.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Writer
Birth Day July 07, 1911
Birth Place  Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States
Age 109 YEARS OLD
Died On August 12, 2009(2009-08-12) (aged 98)\nNew York City, New York, US
Birth Sign Leo
Occupation Model, actress
Years active 1938–85
Spouse(s) Peter van Eyck 1940–19?? (divorced) Zachary Scott 1952–1965 (his death)

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1940

She married actor Peter Van Eyck in the 1940s, but the marriage was unsuccessful. Van Eyck was the father of her daughter, Shelley, who was born in 1941. Prior to Ford's trip west to Hollywood she was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, and appeared in his film Too Much Johnson (1938), which was considered lost until the rediscovery of footage in 2013. Welles' assistance helped her to land contracts with Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. studios.

1965

Ford married film star Zachary Scott and they remained together until Scott's death in 1965. Scott adopted Shelley, who took the name Shelley Scott. Zachary Scott reportedly died penniless except for a $100,000 insurance policy he left for his widow.

1976

She starred in the 1976 Broadway play Poor Murderer.

2010

In May 2010 it was reported, originally in The Wall Street Journal, that Ford's estate had been worth $8.4 million, almost all of it in the value of two apartments she owned in the famous apartment building The Dakota in Manhattan, where she died at the age of 98 in 2009. One of the apartments had belonged to her brother Charles, who predeceased her. She bequeathed the apartments to her cook/butler, Indra Tamang, a Nepalese-American whom Charles Henri Ford had brought to New York. Ford's daughter and grandchildren were reportedly disinherited.

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