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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overpowering. Suppose he did have to settle for a small part in a western movie at first? Wouldn't they spot Artie Biggs for a surefire Roy Rogers when they saw his lightning draw and heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Airborne Stowaway | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Lost Boundaries," currently playing at the University Theater is the story of such a negro. After graduating from medical school, Dr. Carter (Mel Ferrer) reluctantly decides to "pass" when he finds that no negro hospital will accept him because he is too light and no white institution will take him because he frankly admits he is a negro...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...Ferrer and Beatrice Pearson deserve great credit for their natural and absorbing performances, particularly Ferrer, who the movie magazines tell us hates acting worse than castor oil. Also memorable are the performances turned in by Susan Douglas and Richard Hilton, the two young stars who play the parts of the doctor's children...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

Temporarily at least, Clift and Douglas have run away from such other promising newcomers as Arthur Kennedy, Richard Basehart, Robert Ryan, John Lund, Farley Granger, Louis Jourdan, Ricardo Montalban and Christopher Kent. One who has not been left behind is Melchor Ferrer (no kin to Broadway's Jose), an experienced actor. His performance in Lost Boundaries, as the Negro doctor who secretly crosses the color line, is one of the year's best. Scarcely a newcomer, but definitely a comer, is Richard Widmark. It took two years and three pictures for 20th Century-Fox to dilute the Widmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...success, stagestruck Hollywood has a much bigger project under way. Peck, with the newly formed Actors' Company,' plans to build a $2,000,000 showplace housing a year-round theater in Beverly Hills. Former RKO Chief Peter Rathvon heads the company; its other officers are Peck, Ferrer, Rosalind Russell and Producer Jerry Wald. The project calls for the production of six plays a year for a run of at least six weeks each, with every member of a star-cluttered board of directors already agreed to appear every season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stagestruck | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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