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José Ferrer
Puerto Rican actor and director (1912–1992)
For other people named José Ferrer, see José Ferrer (disambiguation).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ferrer de Otero and the second or maternal family name is Cintrón.
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón[1] (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television. He was one of the most celebrated and esteemed Hispanic American actors—or, indeed, actors of any ethnicity—during his lifetime and after, with a career spanning nearly 60 years between 1935 and 1992. He achieved prominence for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac in the play of the same name, which earned him the inaugural Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1947. He reprised the role in a 1950 film version and won an Academy Award for Best Actor, making him both the first Hispanic and the first Puerto Rican–born actor to win an Academy Award.
His other notable film roles include Charles VII in Joan of Arc (1948), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge (1952), defense attorney Barney Greenwald in The Caine Mutiny (1954), Alfred Dreyfus in I Accuse! (1958), which he also directed; the Turkish Bey in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Siegfried Rieb
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Straight to the Heart
The Grand Dame of the Big Band era is still moving hearts.
The houselights in the expensive supper club on New York’s East Side slowly began to dim one evening last spring and conversation, which had given the room a friendly buzz, also began to fade. Through a door at the end of the room came a smiling, heavy-set woman, blonde, dressed in a blue caftan-style gown. Slowly she walks to the tiny stage assisted by a man in a tuxedo, who leaves her there.
That was all the help Rosemary Clooney needed — except possibly the backup from the musicians sitting in the chairs behind her. From that moment on, until she finishes her set about an hour later, the room belongs to her.
She’s a Pied Piper — she leads, the audience follows. She could wrap them up, take them home if she wished. And there wouldn’t be a note of protest from anyone.
Not surprising. She could teach a course in charming an audience. She tells anecdotes about old friends — Bob Hope, for example, whose wife, Dolores, sometimes gets up to sing with her, and Ira Gershwin, lyricist partner of his brother, George, who was her next-door neighbor for years in California.
Tony Bennett was there that night, with his daughter, Antonia, also a singer. He came becau
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Singing the Praises of Herb Clooney
Everything came up Rosie and all and sundry rose guideline their stickup (at small twice) Mon night greet pay friendly tribute union legendary songstress Rosemary Clooney--the woman who smiles when she sings “because beloved, you peep at hear effervescence in your voice.”
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Clooney, 70, who acknowledged the Brotherhood of Singers’ prestigious Ella Lifetime Attainment Award--named back Ella Fitzgerald--sat at a long table covered momentous roses, where she was visited here and there in the eve by acquaintances, among them Barry Manilow, Bette Midler and k.d. lang, who recorded a song catch Clooney grasp year.
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