Dorothy Ford Net Worth is
$400,000

Mini Biography

Dorothy Ford was created Apr 4, 1922 in Perris, CA, and raised in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Santa Barbara and Tucson, AZ. During college, she appeared in a number of pageants, and after graduation, she proceeded to go into modeling. Standing up 6’2 and with measurements of 38-26-38 1/2, Ford was an all natural for photographic function. Her first work was in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA when Billy Rose solid her in his “Aquacade,” along with Johnny Weissmuller, and she was an Earl Carroll showgirl, showing up in a variety of revues including Something to Shout About and Celebrity Spangled Glamour. Ford’s physical features and her excellent visual appearance quickly brought her towards the attention of casting offices, and she produced her display debut like a model in Woman at night (1942). MGM place her under agreement in 1943, casting her in two musicals, Hundreds Cheer (with Crimson Skelton) and Broadway Tempo, both in 1944. Her additional appearances that yr included Two Ladies and a Sailor, Meet up with the People, Bathing Beauty as well as the Thin Man Moves House (with William Powell and Myrna Loy). She was observed in The Picture of Dorian Grey within an onscreen carrying out act, and Ruler Vidor’s An American Love before she remaining MGM in 1945. Dorothy studied in the Stars’ Laboratory, the West Coastline version of NY City’s Group Theatre. She experienced a very much fuller part in her Common Photos’ debut with Abbott & Costello in Right here Shows up the Co-Eds (1945) which finally offered her an opportunity to actually take action. Playing the captain of the women’s basketball group showing up as ringers inside a university video game, she exuded a daring confidence, and a timid streak, and stole every picture she is at. She briefly came back to modeling in Rio de Janeiro, within South America’s 1st post-war style show. It had been there that she fulfilled General Tag Clark, who testifies that “this is actually the first woman I’ve ever noticed who could proceed bear hunting equipped with a change.” In 1946, she came back to MGM and made an appearance in Like Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946), playing a co-ed who does not have a day for the faculty dance, and it is unexpectedly harmonized with 5’2″ Mickey Rooney. The elevation difference between Ford as well as the diminutive Rooney resulted in the homecoming dance that was the highlight from the film. This is also Dorothy’s 1st major role to try out off her elevation (in the film, she was putting on four-inch pumps, and in promotion stills from your studio, her elevation was outlined as six-foot-six). By that point, she was frequently described in pr announcements like a “Glamazon.” and she was outspoken in motivating more tall ladies to operate for themselves, advising feminine visitors that “if character has produced you tall, after that be great and high.” Through the 1940’s, within an era where Maureen O’Hara was thought to be formidable at 5’8″, Dorothy, at 6’2″ and 145 pounds, was thought to be probably one of the most strikingly gorgeous ladies in Hollywood. She appeared in a fresh York stage creation from the Big People (which played off her height inside a positive way), and in 1948, she was back Hollywood within an unusual independently-made anthology film, On Our Merry Way. In 1949, she was solid in John Ford’s Three Godfathers, and provided the interesting area of the potential like curiosity of John Wayne. That same yr, she was wedded to Wayne Sterling, a staff man, in NEVADA, NV. In soon over per month, she acquired an annulment of her relationship in Ventura, CA on the lands that these were both drunk at that time. Her Superior Courtroom suit said both never lived collectively following the rites, and she didn’t understand that she was a bride-to-be until two times after the wedding ceremony. Sterling didn’t contest the match. As the 1950’s began, Dorothy’s career slowed up considerably, and her biggest part from the decade came in the Abbott & Costello fantasy-comedy Jack as well as the Beanstalk in 1952. Evidently, Lou Costello loved Ford and valued her love of life, because he later on put her within an bout of their Television series The Abbott & Costello Display in 1952. She produced various television looks through the entire 1950s, like the Journeys of Ozzie and Harriet as well as the Red Skelton Display. In Apr of 1952, she marries Thomas B. Chambers, a car sales supervisor and tennis celebrity. In 1953, she was hospitalized after dropping her anticipated baby, and she’d later on divorce Chambers in 1954. After an appearance in the Bowery Kids vehicle Feudin’ Fools, Ford’s screen career began to wind down, but her staying roles were in a few surprisingly high-visibility motion pictures. John Wayne solid her in a little part in The Large as well as the Mighty (1954) like a glamour woman with her hooks into Phil Harris, and Billy Wilder utilized her in the starting segment from the Seven Yr Itch (1955). Dorothy made an appearance in a number of lower-budget movies over another few years, after that died out of films in 1962, but she continued to be associated with the film business actually after quitting acting, becoming a member of MGM like a specialist in the studio’s film laboratory in 1965. She was wedded for 30 years to acting professional Mike Ragan (created Hollis Alan “Holly” Bane), plus they retired to Marina Del Rey, CA until his loss of life in 1995. She passed on in Canoga Recreation area, Los Angeles Region, CA on Oct 15, 2010 at age 88.

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