TCM Schedule for Thursday, July 18, 2024: Constance Ford / Eva Marie Saint
Constance Ford (July 1, 1923 – February 26, 1993) was an American actress and model.
A young Constance Ford appeared in the 1938 Montgomery Ward catalog at age 15. Her face would become famous in the Elizabeth Arden 1941 advertising campaign for Victory Red lipstick, which featured a photo showing her profile against the American flag (photo below).
College led to acting classes that led to Broadway. She appearing in such productions as the musical Say Darling and Nobody Loves an Albatross. She also played the prostitute in the original Broadway production of Death of a Salesman (1949).
Ford's IMDB.com profile lists 84 television and film appearances.
As a Warner Brothers contract player, she had her most famous role as Sandra Dee's heartless mother in A Summer Place (1959), airing early this morning.
In 1967 she joined the Soap Opera Another World as Ada, a role she held until 1992.
Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Ford
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285576/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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6:00 AM | The Last Hunt (1956)
Two frontiersmen clash over the slaughter of a buffalo herd.
Dir: Richard Brooks | Cast: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Constance Ford
7:45 AM | A Summer Place (1959)
An adulterous couple discovers that their children are sexually involved.
Dir: Delmer Daves | Cast: Richard Egan, Sandra Dee, Constance Ford
10:00 AM | Home from the Hill (1960)
A southern landowner's family is torn apart by the revelation that he has an illegitimate son.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, Constance Ford
12:45 PM | Claudelle Inglish (1961)
A defiant Southern girl marries a poor dirt farmer instead of the wealthy landowner.
Dir: Gordon Douglas | Cast: Diane McBain, Arthur Kennedy, Constance Ford
2:30 PM | All Fall Down (1962)
A young drifter's romance with an older woman is threatened by his possessive mother.
Dir: John Frankenheimer | Cast: Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Constance Ford
4:30 PM | Rome Adventure (1962)
A man falls in love with two women.
Dir: Delmer Daves | Cast: Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Constance Ford
6:30 PM | House of Women (1962)
A young woman is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years.
Dir: Walter Doniger | Cast: Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford
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8:00 PM | 36 Hours (1964)
Nazis kidnap a key American intelligence officer and try to convince him that World War II is over.
Dir: George Seaton | Cast: James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
10:15 PM | Grand Prix (1966)
An American Grand Prix driver is fired by his racing team following a crash at Monaco.
Dir: John Frankenheimer | Cast: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand
1:30 AM | Exodus (1960)
A young Israeli activist fights to set up a homeland for his people.
Dir: Otto Preminger | Cast: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson
5:15 AM | A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) TV Movie
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara