Glenn Ford

As of 2004, Ford was living in quiet retirement in Beverly Hills with his son's family. In 1931, the government of France awarded him the Legion of Honor. After his passing, a street was named in his honor in the city of Nice, France and Radio France named a studio for him. In 1992 he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur medal for his action in the Second World War. Sacha Guitry is interred with his fifth wife in the Cimetière de Montmartre, in the Parisian suburb of Montmartre. In 1962, Glenn Ford won a Golden Globe Award as best actor for his part in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Of the 30 films he directed, some of his most recognized are "The Story of a Cheat" (1937), "Pearls of the Crown" (1938), and " Royal Affair in Versailles" in 1953. With Eleanor Powell he is the father of actor Peter Ford. He went on to be recognized as one of the truly innovative directors, sometimes compared to Orson Welles because of his techniques.

Ford has been married (and divorced) four times to Eleanor Powell, Jeanne Baus, Kathryn Hays and Cynthia Hayward. In addition to his plays, Sacha Guitry wrote and acted in many early films and in 1935 directed for the first time. His major roles in thrillers and dramas and action films include A Stolen Life, The Big Heat, Blackboard Jungle, Interrupted Melody, Experiment in Terror, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Superman and Westerns such as The Fastest Gun Alive, 3:10 to Yuma and Cimarron. Together they performed in a number of his plays bringing the extremely popular 1925 production of "Mozart" to cities in North America, including New York City, Montreal, Quebec and Boston, Massachusetts. Ford's movie-acting career flourished in the 1950s and 60s, and continued into the early 1990s, with increasing television roles. A prominent member of Parisian society, in 1919 Guitry married singing star Yvonne Printemps. He went on to be a leading man opposite Rita Hayworth in five films, and starred with other acting greats such as Bette Davis, Gloria Grahame, Ingrid Thulin. In 1918 his theatrical production premiered in Paris to critical acclaim. Guitry's dramas include "Nono" (1905), "Deburan" (1918) and "Jean de la Fontaine" in 1922.

His breakthrough role was in 1946, following military service, starring alongside Rita Hayworth in Gilda. An intellect and a prolific writer with a sharp wit, by the age of 17 Guitry had already written the first of his 120 plays. His acting career began on stage, and his first large movie part was in 1939 film Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence. As a five year old, he appeared on stage with his father. Ford is best known for his film roles as cowboys and as an ordinary man in unusual circumstances. It was during this time in Russia that Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry was born and eventually nicknamed Sacha. He was born in Sainte-Christine, Portneuf, Quebec, Canada and moved to Santa Monica, California with his family as a child. Petersburg, before returning to France.

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (born May 1, 1916), better known by his stage name Glenn Ford, is an actor. He was the son of Lucien Germain Guitry (1860–1925), a major Parisian stage actor who spent nine years at the Michel Theater, in St. Petersburg, Russia – died July 24, 1957 in Paris, France, was a film actor, director and screenwriter and playwright. Sacha Guitry, born February 21, 1885 in St.