He kept detailed diaries on all of his conquests.

The son of this deceased actor who was A/A+ at his peak wrote a book a few years ago that exposed his father , who had a relatively clean cut image during his time, as an alcoholic and serial womanizer who slept with hundreds of women many of them famous co-stars.

He kept detailed diaries on all of his conquests.

But even more interesting was the revelation that this actor installed a home taping system in his house due to paranoia about his first wife.

He taped all of his phone calls.

Of course, a lot of the people involved in these phone calls are famous.

The son does not go into detail what kinds of conversation are on the tapes but has talked privately about one person in particular.

This deceased person was B/B- as an actor but later had a different career in which he was A++.

On the tapes, he says a number of things which would be damaging to his posthumous reputation if they ever came out.

For one thing, he jokes and brags about sex with teenage girls.

For another, he uses bigoted slurs to describe African-American and Jewish people.

Son: Peter Ford (Glenn Ford)

His first wife (Eleanor Powell)

B/B- as an actor but A++ Ronald Reagan – 40th President of the United States

Glenn Ford’s racy story told by his son

He had a one-night stand with Marilyn Monroe, a 6-month fling with Judy Garland, and a 40-year, on-and-off affair with Rita Hayworth.

After a 16-year marriage to dancing star Eleanor Powell, he married three more times while he chased a series of younger and younger women, gold-diggers who plundered his hard earned fortune and then left him.

He developed a drinking problem so severe that it nearly killed him and left him unable to walk for a decade before he died in 2006 at age 90.

And he taped the most famous taper in history: he installed a secret telephone recording system in his Beverly Hills mansion that recorded intimate conversations with his many Hollywood lovers (143 at last count) and some big-time politicians, including President Richard Nixon.

Those are just a few of the juicy revelations in a biography with the remarkably understated title “Glenn Ford: A Life,” written by his son Peter Ford and released last May. And for those who question Ford’s claims, he has the documents to back them up: every letter his parents ever exchanged, every one of his father’s day-by-day diaries, and boxes of reel-to-reel tapes from his secret phone recording system.

“I found one labeled ‘Peter’s conversations,’” said Ford, who will appear at the Manhattan Beach Public Library on Feb. 29. Although he was offended by his father’s invasion of privacy, he admitted: “It was kind of fun to listen to myself as a teenager.”

Books written by children of Hollywood legends have become a well-defined literary genre over the last 40 years. There are two basic sub-genres: Daddy was a Drunken Tyrant who beat the hell out of me (Bing Crosby), and Mommy was a Drunken Monster who tried to control every aspect of my life (Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich).

Now Ford, the only child of 1950s superstar Glenn Ford, has invented a third sub-genre: Daddy drank way too much and cheated constantly on my beloved mother but was a great actor and did the best he could given his incredible journey from a no-luxuries upbringing in Santa Monica to a no-limits life as a Hollywood superstar.

“I had to walk a fine line between telling the truth and not discrediting my father,” he says of his 7-year struggle to turn out the manuscript. – Source