Word: ferrers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director José Ferrer plunges bravely into the mess at the point where Actor Jose Ferrer, who plays the hero, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, is sitting at his desk in the Ministere de la Guerre. He is a braid-proud artillery officer assigned to operations and marked with the uncomfortable distinction of being the first Jew ever elevated to the French General Staff. Meanwhile, over at the German embassy, another French officer, one Major Esterhazy, is making arrangements to supplement his army pay with German gold, for which he is ready to betray French military secrets. When one of Esterhazy...
Questioning him about the problems facing higher education in the United States will be: Miss Terry Ferrer, Education Editor of the New York Heraid-Tribune; Leon Pearson, NBC news commentator; Richard Wilson, Washington correspondent of the Cowles newspapers, and Lawrence Spivak, producer and regular panelist of the program...
...Hadley II, Yale '49, onetime (1950-56) staffer on Newsweek. Other additions: Society Gossipist Charles Ventura, longtime international-set reporter for the New York World-Telegram and Sun; Elmo Wilson's World Poll, first globe-girdling opinion survey to appear in any U.S. daily; Newsweek Staffer Terry Ferrer as education editor...
...heroine, who settles for all men in lieu of Jake whom she loves; as man-crazy Lady Ashley (Brett), Ava Gardner turns in the most realistic performance of her career. The other major characters also rise to true book size. As Robert Cohn, the unwanted, brooding Jew, Mel Ferrer is especially convincing. The fascinating quintet converging on Pamplona for the fiesta is rounded out by Errol Flynn (wonderful as boozy Mike Campbell, the happy-went-lucky bankrupt) and Eddie Albert (as Bill Gorton, everybody...
...pianists Anne Chamberlain and Rafael Ferrer were an able substitute for an orchestra...