Ruth Ford - 08.12.2009

Ruth Ford (July 7, 1911, Brookhaven, Mississippi – August 12, 2009, New York City) was an American model and stage and film actress. Her brother was the bohemian surrealist Charles Henri Ford. Their parents managed the Tennessee Hotel in Clarksville, Tennessee. As a model she posed for Harper's, Town and Country and Mademoiselle. 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.[2] Welles' assistance helped her to land contracts with Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. studios. She appeared in 1 episode of Radio Mystery Theater.