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...report this time was "The Communist 'Peace' Offensive," and the committeemen listed more than 350 prominent U.S. citizens-scientists, artists, "an inordinately large proportion of clerics"-who had signed up for "peace/' Russian-style. Well up on the list: Oscar Winners Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer and Judy (Born Yesterday) Holliday (TIME, April...
...country hotel, with orders that she was not to be disturbed. In Hollywood, the whole show was as formalized as a high-school commencement. The main actors of Academy Award night were gathered in a smoky nightclub on Manhattan's West 52nd Street. There, Nominee José Ferrer was host at a party to celebrate the 52nd birthday of Nominee Gloria Swanson, his co-star in Broadway's Twentieth Century. Host Ferrer never got a chance to deliver the speech he had planned in honor of Actress Swanson's Oscar. After the news came over the radio...
...Ferrer got his chance to make a speech, after all. As winner of the best-actor award (for Cyrano de Bergerac), he telephoned to the Hollywood gathering a message, broadcast across the U.S., which pointedly raised an echo of the movie industry's hottest current issue. Under subpoena by the House Un-American Activities Committee, Ferrer, who firmly denies any Communist ties, said: "This means more to me than an honor to an actor. I consider it a vote of confidence and an act of faith, and believe me, I'll not let you down...
Cyrano de Bergerac. José Ferrer's acting sparks a conscientious adaptation of the Rostand classic (TIME...
...Front tops off the home front. Bill Mauldin's war cartoons are animated with David Wayne and Tom Ewell as Joe and Willie, at Loew's State, Broadway and 45th; and show is reputed to be almost as funny as the original drawings. Jose Ferrer moves lock, stock, and nose from the Bijou next door to the Golden on Wednesday in Cyrano de Bargerac; all seats are reserved...