Word: ferrers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scarcely surprising that the actors failed to do much with their inept material. Audrey Hepburn looked lovely as usual, but her talents as an actress were confined to delivering an occasional shy smile. And Mel Ferrer once more exhibited his really astonishing capacity for looking bored. The one man who might have rescued the show from tedium, Raymond Massey, was not allowed to do anything but sneer in his role as Prime Minister. To be sure, they all appeared quite handsome in their fine uniforms, which were broadcast in color, but it is still very tempting to suggest that they...
...dramatic show in the history of television. The advertisements and a cover story in Life magazine loudly proclaimed that sponsor RCA and producer Anatole Litvak had spent half a million dollars to restage Litvak's screen success of twenty years ago, and that Audrey Hepburn and her husband, Mel Ferrer, had been hired to perform in it. After it was all over, however, the ad men would have had a difficult time convincing anybody that Mayerling was anything but a monumental bore...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Anatole Litvak's $500,000 Mayer- ling, starring Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer as the star-crossed lovers (color...
...Ferrer makes his pitch at a meeting of the network's top brass, throwing them a soft sell, very sincere, about how he would conduct the full hour, coast-to-coast memorial show being planned for the dead man as "a portrait in sound of the common man magnified." As the camera plays on the alert faces of the brass, each attentive but ready to cut off the speaker's head at the first false note, it is plain that Ferrer's fate is riding on the words he is improvising. When he finishes, the boss breaks...
...dramatic question: Now that Commentator Ferrer knows what a monumental heel the great man was, will he turn the memorial show into a farce by doing a tearjerker or into a scandal by telling the truth? What he does is an improbable surprise, but well worth seeing...