Constance Ford

Constance Ford was an American actress and model who began as a teenage model for Montgomery Ward and later gained notice in an Elizabeth Arden advertising campaign. Born in The Bronx, she trained at HB Studio in New York City before working on Broadway from 1949, including the original production of Death of a Salesman. She moved into television in 1950 with live drama series and worked as a Warner Bros. contract player. Her most noteworthy film role was Helen Jorgenson, the matriarch in A Summer Place (1959). She also appeared in All Fall Down (1962), Rome Adventure (1962), House of Women, and The Caretakers (1963). In 1967 she joined the daytime soap opera Another World as Ada Lucas Hobson, playing the strong-willed mother of Rachel until shortly before her death in 1993. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences gave her a Certificate of Merit for her contribution to daytime drama.