{"id":1727,"date":"2006-08-31T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/08\/31\/obit-glenn-ford-90-star-of-blackboard-jungle-gilda-and-the-big-heat\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T05:11:00","slug":"obit-glenn-ford-90-star-of-blackboard-jungle-gilda-and-the-big-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/08\/31\/obit-glenn-ford-90-star-of-blackboard-jungle-gilda-and-the-big-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Obit: Glenn Ford, 90, star of Blackboard Jungle, Gilda, and The Big Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/1600\/heat-lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/200\/heat-lg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The films of Glenn Ford available in Media Services:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">The Big Heat DVD 758<br \/>Blackboard Jungle DVD 1232<br \/>Gilda DVD 1604 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ford always struck me as a likable journeyman. With a few exceptions, including his role in <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Gilda<\/span>, he usually found himself playing easy-going sympathetic characters. Of the 85 or so films he made, only the above-mentioned titles, along with the yet-to-be -released-on video <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Human Desire<\/span>, are among the few that made the cut as classic films.  Ford made more than his share of westerns. Some good and many forgettable but a personal favorite worth seeking out is <span style=\"font-style:italic\">The Sheepman<\/span> (1958 and currently out-of-release). It&#8217;s a fresh light-hearted take on the tired range war theme that had become so common in the Western genre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/08\/30\/glenn.ford.dead.ap\/index.html\">link<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The films of Glenn Ford available in Media Services: The Big Heat DVD 758Blackboard Jungle DVD 1232Gilda DVD 1604 Ford always struck me as a likable journeyman. With a few exceptions, including his role in Gilda, he usually found himself playing easy-going sympathetic characters. Of the 85 or so films he made, only the above-mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}