Word: ferrer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Mr. and Mrs. José Ferrer (Rosemary Clooney) and Gisele MacKenzie sing pop tunes, opera's Georgio Tozzi and Nicolai Gedda sing a duet from The Bartered Bride, Jose Iturbi plays Chopin, Liszt and Rameau on piano and harpsichord, Maria Tallchief and André Eglevsky dance a classical pas de deux. Color...
Fortnight ago, pale, thin Audrey Hepburn came back shakily before the cameras after a month in bed following her fall from a white Arabian stallion named Gui Pago (TIME. Feb. 9). Aiding her convalescence were her French secretary, Italian hairdresser and Husband Mel Ferrer. At company expense she installed her retinue in a florid villa, refurbished to match the Ferrers' Beverly Hills mansion. But trouble was far from over. Returning from a trip to Nicaragua, three of the film's technicians were killed when their plane crashed near Managua. This tragedy was followed by a farce, when Director...
...straight actor. Belafonte has a long way to go, and he knows it. In his latest picture. The World, the Flesh and the Devil, to be released in April, he is co-starred with Mel Ferrer and Inger Stevens as one of the three survivors of an earth-shattering atomic disaster (the script is based roughly on a prophetic 1902 novel entitled The Purple Cloud). By all reports, despite a clumsy story it is Belafonte's best acting job to date. Writer-Director Ranald MacDougall was surprised by Belafonte's chameleon ability to take on the emotional coloration...
...High Cost of Loving. A gentle little satire on the suburban manners and office morals of a company man, recession phase, charmingly played and directed by José Ferrer (TIME, March...
Edwin Booth (by Milton Geiger) is José Ferrer, and never the twain connect. This farrago of many scenes is nothing resembling a play; this thespian in many costumes evokes no once-great actor. Something has been borrowed from the legend of the Mad Booths, and something from the lives, to which have been added puns, pomposities, and speeches from Shakespeare's plays. In an atmosphere of swig-and-spout, Old Junius and Young Ned part company in California; Ned, amid rehearsals, finds romance with Mary Devlin; John Wilkes Booth shouts his Latin and is the assassin...