Word: ferrers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less impressed with the story told by Academy Award Winner Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer. He stoutly denied that he had ever been a Communist or had ever had the least sympathy with party aims. He was, explained Ferrer, just a sucker for high-sounding left-wing groups...
What Happened to Jose. Ferrer was in hot water from the moment he began his simple-country-boy tactics. How did it happen, the committee demanded, that so many Communist front outfits used his name? It was a case of "plain, stupid carelessness," replied Ferrer. Didn't Ferrer know that Ben Davis was an open Communist candidate when he sponsored him for election to New York's City Council? "I linked Davis with the Democratic Party," Ferrer said. "This is only an evidence of how careless...
Stalag 17 (by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski; produced by José Ferrer) is an unexpectedly bright little knickknack, considering the nature of its subject and the lateness of the season. Set in a Nazi prison barracks full of U.S. airmen, toward the end of World War II, it mixes a good deal of earthy comedy with lively if commonplace melodrama. Somebody in the barracks is plainly blabbing the prisoners' small secrets to the Nazis. And when there is something really serious to blab about - when a new prisoner confides that he set a Nazi train on fire...
Playwrights Bevan & Trzcinski, who met during their years in a German prison camp, provide a few glimpses of Nazi brutality. But in general they display sharper memories for what goes over on the stage than what went on in their stalag. Producer Ferrer, in his boisterous staging, equally neglects mind and heart for spine and funnybone...
Cyrano de Bergerac. Oscar-Winner Jose Ferrer plays Rostand's poet-swordsman with wit, dash and eloquence (TIME...