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...Shrike (Universal-International), adapted from Joseph Kramm's coldly furious Pulitzer Prizewinning play (TIME, Jan. 28, 1952), is both colder and angrier than it was on the stage. As a Broadway hit, it was a protesting shocker about an intelligent but morally weak man, who summons enough resolution to try suicide, only to revive in the white hell of a big-city hospital's psychiatric ward. Ably directed by Co-Star José Ferrer, the film protests not only against municipal snake pits but also against another unattractive institution-marriage between crutchlike women and emotionally crippled...
Died. Isabel Bonner, 47, stage, television and radio actress (Uncle Harry, Omnibus, The Right to Happiness), wife of Playwright Joseph Kramm (The Shrike), 1952 Pulitzer Prizewinner; of cerebral hemorrhage; on the stage of Hollywood's Carthay Circle Theater during the first act of a performance of The Shrike, in which she was playing the title role...
Born. To José Ferrer, 43. Hollywood and Broadway director (My 3 Angels) and actor (Moulin Rouge, The Shrike), and Rosemary Clooney, 26, jukebox and screen songstress (Red Garters): their first child, his second, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Jose ferrer, at the City Center, is persecuted this week by Judith Evelyn in "The Shrike." Beginning Sunday he is persecuted as Richard III. It couldn't happen to a better actor...
This year's theater season at Manhattan's City Center is in effect a José Ferrer festival. Ferrer will star in all four bills-Cyrano, The Shrike, Richard III, Charley's Aunt. Opening with Cyrano, he retained all his old verve in the part; the play, too, holds up fairly well, though the swash buckles here & there...