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Bette Ford

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Bette Ford
Born
Harriet Elizabeth Dingeldein

(1927-06-24) June 24, 1927 (age 96)
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation(s)Model, matador, actress
Years active1954–1958 (bullfighting)
1968–2018 (acting)
Spouse(s)
David Ford
​
​
(m. 1945; div. 1946)​

John Meston (1958–1973)
Scott Wolkoff (?–present)

Bette Ford (born Harriet Elizabeth Dingeldein; June 24, 1927) is a retired American actress and model turned professional bullfighter. She was the first American woman to fight on foot in the Plaza México, the world's largest bullfight arena.[1]

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Personal life

Shortly after moving to New York at the age of 18, she married another actor, David Ford, whose name she would keep, although the marriage ended after nine months. She later married John Meston (July 30, 1914 – March 24, 1979) an American radio and television writer best known for co-creating (with Norman Macdonnell), the long-running radio/TV series, Gunsmoke. Ford's third and current husband is Scott Wolkoff (born May 27, 1947), some two decades her junior.[2]

Early modelling and acting career

Born as Harriet Elizabeth Dingeldein in McKeesport, Pennsylvania in 1927, she and her brother were raised by relatives after being abandoned, first by their mother and then later by their father. After graduating from high school in 1945, she began her career as a model and actress in New York, where her modelling credits included stints as The Jantzen Bathing Suit Girl, The Camay Bride and The Parliament Cigarette Girl, and her acting credits included appearances as a regular on The Jackie Gleason Show and The Jimmy Durante Show.[3]

Bullfighting career

While on a modeling photo shoot in Bogotá, Colombia, Ford was introduced to the renowned matador Luis Miguel Dominguín and watched him fight in the ring. Soon after, Ford left New York for Mexico to train as a bullfighter. In 1954, Warner Bros made a documentary short about her training, Beauty and the Bull.[4]

Her historic debut at the Plaza México was followed by several years of fighting as a figura (bullfighting celebrity) in Mexico and the Philippines. The studio MGM, which had offered her an acting contract before she left New York to become a bullfighter, planned a full-length feature film based on her life story, and sent several writers, among them John Meston, the co-creator of Gunsmoke, to meet with Ford and discuss a screenplay. Ford married Meston shortly after they met and then retired as a bullfighter.[5]

Post-bullfighting acting career

Ford has appeared in feature films including the Clint-Eastwood-directed Sudden Impact and Honkytonk Man, and television series including Cheers, L.A. Law, Melrose Place, and Felicity.[3] Her voice can be heard in The Animatrix, the companion animated DVD of the film trilogy The Matrix, and numerous commercials.[6]

Selected filmography

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Muriel Feiner, Women in the Bullring (Gainesville, University Press of Florida), 2003; ISBN 0813026296
  2. ^ "Bette Ford". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  3. ^ a b Bette Ford at IMDb
  4. ^ "Beauty and the Bull", imdb.com; accessed April 27, 2016.
  5. ^ Salazar, Fortunato (2017-03-13). "Why This Model Left the Glitzy World of Fashion for the Gritty Life of Bullfighting". Marie Claire. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  6. ^ "Model, actress and McKeesport graduate puts on a cape to fight the bulls in Mexico", post-gazette.com; accessed April 27, 2016.

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