Apologies to Michelle Obama and Eleanor Roosevelt, but Michelle Pfeiffer's Ford runs away with the new Showtime series.
Michelle Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Betty Ford: One of these ladies is not quite like
the others. It’s not just because she’s the Republican on the list—Ford, who spent only 895 days in the White House, just doesn’t have the same prominence in American cultural memory as the history-making, two-term, and still-prominent Obama, or Roosevelt, who served for 12 years and reshaped the nation’s idea of what a president’s wife could accomplish. So it might come as a slight surprise that despite her lower profile, Betty Ford’s story is by far the best part of Showtime’s new series,The show, which debuts Sunday, stars Viola Davis as Obama, Gillian Anderson as Roosevelt, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Ford.
Ford was born Elizabeth Bloomer in 1918, and spent her early years training for a career as a dancer. In 1938, she left her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to pursue her modern dance dreams with Martha Graham’s New York City-based company. “The idea of a young Midwestern woman striking out on this very independent career in the arts as a dancer,” first ladies expert and Ohio University professor Katherine Jellison told Jezebel.
Once back home in Michigan, Ford married and divorced one of her local suitors. To this day, she remains one of only two divorcée first ladies. Ford’s memoirs suggest that her first husband may have been an alcoholic, and he slipped into a diabetic coma just as she was on the verge of serving him divorce papers. When he recovered, a full two years later, she called it quits. According to Lisa McCubbins’of Ford, she’d later call that chapter in her life the “five-year misunderstanding.
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