Word: ferrers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fancy men's club restricted to desperadoes who want rest and relaxation between their brushes with the law. While Kennedy tries to decide which of the resident badmen killed his girl, Marlene sings throatily, lazily crosses her beautiful legs, and looks sultry. She also irritates Gunman Mel Ferrer by going on moonlight walks with Kennedy and murmuring such sweet nothings as "I wish you'd go away and come back ten years...
...more than imaginative drama, documents exist to be scrutinized. On a factual basis, it is improbable that hospital psychiatrists, however literal-minded, would to a man misread both Jim and his wife. Documents can also get flat-toned, but, thanks to the production, The Shrike very seldom does. Jose Ferrer acts Jim Downs with wonderful quiet skill. Equally distinguished is his staging of the play, with its large, hand-picked cast that includes Judith Evelyn in the tough role of the wife. Powerful enough to raise goose pimples, The Shrike is yet plausible enough to raise a few questions about...
Gloria Swanson, David Niven and Alan Webb are starred in this production, and they all have their moments. Miss Swanson, fresh from being batted around by Jose Ferrer in "Twentieth Century," confirms the fact that she is a terrific ham. After a slow first act, she adjusts to the requirements of the "bon mot" dialogue, tossing off her lines with graceful aplomb. But she lags badly in the serious moments, gesturing wildly, striking majestic poses, and trying to act. Fortunately, there aren't many serious moments...
...committee produced no evidence to show that Ferrer had played anything worse than the sucker's game he had freely admitted to. But if he was as naively ignorant as he professed to be, Actor Ferrer could serve as a classic warning to other gullible citizens of Broadway and Hollywood...
...After Ferrer admitted a host of careless affiliations, exasperated Committeeman Harold Velde recalled that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had once said that an innocent person could perhaps join two or three Red front organizations-but not six or seven. Replied Ferrer: "I don't know, sir. That is not true in my case." But just to show the committee that he had finally gotten his politics straightened out, Puerto Rican-born Actor Ferrer added, a little irrelevantly: "I am completely against Puerto Rican independence...