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...boxing gloves and was supposed to hang one on the leading man. This leading man had a nose like Cyrano de Bergerac's and was not much bigger than Toulouse-Lautrec. Uta flattened him. He got up and, some months later, married her; she became Mrs. José Ferrer...
They did Othello together with Negro Actor Paul Robeson. Traveling from city to city, the Ferrers decided to stay in no hotel that would refuse Robeson. They were all quite close. And as Robeson veered more and more loudly to the left and Moscow, this closeness got the Ferrers into trouble. In due course they were called to Washington to explain their political beliefs. Ferrer, who had just won an Oscar for Cyrano, denied any leftist leanings and was not blacklisted. Uta was dismissed without being heard at all. She ended up on TV and Hollywood blacklists nonetheless...
Right Idea. Divorced from Ferrer in 1948, Uta later became the wife of Herbert Berghof. An accomplished actor (The Andersonmlle Trial, Krapp's Last Tape), Berghof is equally appreciated within his profession as a teacher. With Uta he runs the Herbert Berghof Studio in Greenwich Village, an acting school with a student body of 900 and a roster of celebrated alumni like Geraldine Page and Fritz Weaver...
Lawrence of Arabia. Blood, sand and stars (Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy), with the help of a top director (David Lean) and a $10 million budget, make this the best superspectacle since...
...sporty figure sipping a spot of Pernod at the peak is Aristotle Onassis and the lady sitting it out at the bottom is Elsa Maxwell, then the site is St. Moritz. If the set is peopled by a slightly showier crowd, among them players such as Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer and Deborah Kerr, it is Klosters. And if the Greek fellow is named Stavros Niarchos and the other folk include the King and Queen of Thailand, Jordan's King Hussein and Monaco's Rainier and Grace, then, undoubtedly, the place is Gstaad, and-this year more than ever...