Horton Foote letters to Ruth Ford, 1982-1989.

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Horton Foote letters to Ruth Ford, 1982-1989.

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Horton Foote was an American dramatist from Wharton, Texas who made a career as an actor, playwright, and screenwriter spanning over seven decades. In 1982 he cast actress Ruth Ford in his play "Old Friends" at the HB Playwrights Foundation. Ford was a film and stage actress whose apartment at the famed Dakota in Manhattan became a salon for artists. This collection of letters provides a glimpse of Foote's busy career as he made films, wrote an unproduced screenplay about China, and directed plays. Also included are promotional materials for the William Inge Festival, which presented Horton Foote with the Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre award; correspondence from the festival acknowledging Ford's tribute to Foote in the festival; and the June 1989 issue of Ole Miss Alumni Review that mentions Foote.

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Foote, Horton

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Horton Foote, playwright. From the description of The day Emily married : typescript, 2004. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79467997 ...

Ford, Ruth, 1911-2009

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Actress. From the description of Papers of Ruth Ford [manuscript], 1947-1965. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647845310 From the description of Papers of Ruth Ford, 1947-1965. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136577 Actress Ruth Ford was born on July 7, 1911 in Brookhaven, Mississippi to Charles and Gertrude Cato Ford. Her parents owned and managed hotels in several southern towns; as a result Ford and her brother, the poet, novelist and...