Word: ferrers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Button Shoes. Producer's Showcase will offer Somerset Maugham's The Letter (produced and directed by William Wyler), a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom in the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, the Lunts, making their TV debuts, in The Great Sebastians, Gene Kelly and Fredric March in Front Page, a Roy Rogers rodeo. NBC will also give opera, ballet and concert-hall music their biggest boost as popular art forms...
...Peace. An uneven but brilliantly pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's great novel, with some of the best battle pieces ever seen on film; starring Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer (TIME, Sept.10...
...catches the gamine qualities of Natasha, and her softness. What is lacking is the steely courage that would let Natasha brand her flesh with a red-hot iron to prove her love. Instead of a total commitment to life, there is more often a quiet acceptance of fate. Mel Ferrer's Prince Andrey has a certain sullen grandeur, but his diction is often unclear, and he is more wooden than reserved, more testy than proud. Henry Fonda's leanness at first seems all wrong for the massive, moonfaced, soul-tortured Pierre. But Fonda builds beautifully into his part...
...Jose Ferrer, then playing in The Silver Whistle, went to six matinees in a row, explaining: 'I've been in this business a long time, and Rex Harrison is the only actor doing comedy that I can learn from.' " At the time Rex Harrison was playing in Bell, Book and Candle, I was not playing in The Silver Whistle. I have only seen one performance of Bell, Book and Candle, and I have never, at any time in my life, said anything remotely resembling the quote attributed to me. My admiration for Mr. Harrison is unbounded...
...JOSE FERRER Universal City, Calif...