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Director John Huston and José Ferrer discuss a scene on set of MOULIN ROUGE (1952).

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José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney in 𝑫𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒚 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, a 1954 American MGM biographical musical film about the life of operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, who wrote the music for 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈, and 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏, among others.

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The Broadway Show League is composed of actors from every Broadway play who are willing to play softball against each other. Here, Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer cheer on the other members of their team from Othello, Central Park, ca. 1943-1944.

Photo: Everett on Demand

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💣 José Ferrer 🇦🇷 5.1.25

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Dune - 1984 - Dir. David Lynch

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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Jonathan Frakes guest stars in "Ghost of a Chance," episode 2 of the eighth season of Quincy, M.E. (original air date October 6, 1982).

Frakes plays a young surgical resident working under an eminent heart surgeon played by Hollywood legend Jose Ferrer, who is padding his billing by booking more procedures than he can possibly do himself, and then leaving the actual surgery to be done by inexperienced, unsupervised residents without the knowledge of the patients.

Other Trek connections under the cut:

The family of a patient who dies as a result of this arrangement, who request an autopsy from Dr. Quincy, is played by future Next Generation guest stars. The patient's widow is Ellen Geer, who played Dr. Kila Marr, the Federation expert on the deadly crystalline entity in "Silicon Avatar."

And the patient's brother is Nicolas Coster, who had a memorable role as Admiral Haftel, the Daystrom scientist who tries to take Data's daughter Lal away from him in "The Offspring." It wasn't until I was researching this post that I learned Coster passed away just over a year ago. I rewatched "The Offspring" last night because I needed my heart broken again, I GUESS.

"She won't survive much longer. There was nothing anyone could have done. We'd repolarize one pathway and another would collapse. And then another. His hands… were moving faster than I could see, trying to stay ahead of each breakdown. He refused to give up. He was remarkable. It just wasn't meant to be."

Harry Townes, who portrayed the underground leader Reger in the Original Series episode "The Return of the Archons" plays the chief of staff of the hospital where Ferrer and Frakes practice.

The head of the Board of Medical Quality Assurance is played by character actor and Fifth Level Eyebrow Master Philip Pine. He also played Colonel Green, one of the "Evil" historical figures the Excalbians conjure up for the battle between the forces of Good and Evil they stage in the Original Series episode "The Savage Curtain."

Unfortunately we never get to see the face of the surgeon on the left, but he's played by Conroy Gedeon, better known to Trek fans as the agent who apprehends Dr. McCoy and takes him off to the "Federation funny farm" in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

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Cristina Raines, The Sentinel (1977)

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Up next on my Christmas 🎄 movie marathon...The Little Drummer Boy (1968) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #tv #television #Christmas #joseferrer #JuneForay #tedeccles #60s #vintage #VHS #merrychristmas #merrychristmas2024

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Jose Ferrer-Sylva Koscina "Cyrano y D´Artagnan" (Cyrano et D´Artagnan) 1964, de Abel Gance.

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean

Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence

Jose Ferrer as the Turkish Bey

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Birthday remembrance - José Ferrer #botd

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Rosemary Clooney and José Ferrer with family, 1961.

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THE SENTINEL (1977)

Want to see a priest look out a window? Want to see it again? Have I got the movie for you! This is a slow and funky little walk through a model's life in her Brooklyn brownstone that she happens to share with a creepy old priest. Will hijinks ensue? You bet your bottom dollar! But the most interesting thing that happens is a cat's birthday party. That and a young Christopher Walken but he barely talks.

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Trigger Warning Self Harm, Suicide Attempt, Human Beings with Deformities (Used as Props) 

So Alison is dating Michael but she is an independent lady so she moves into a brownstone in Brooklyn that happens to house an enormously creepy Priest on the top floor who just stares out over everything even though he is apparently blind. The eclectic neighbors are bothering Alison as well as headaches and fainting. She has fainted at work twice now and is chalking it up to not getting enough sleep because she is visited by the eccentric old man who lives above her (he literally brings his cat and bird into her home) and has a less charming meeting with the highly sexual lesbians downstairs. This is all before there is a birthday party for Jezebel the cat! Hooray! But that night there is a lot of walking around in the apartment just above Allison's and she is stressed out about it so she complains to the realtor about the tenants and… Her and the priest are the only ones living there. Dun dun dun! 

They looked in the apartments that had previously been occupied and found nothing which was very shocking to poor Alison who very much remembered singing “Happy Birthday” to a cat. This is distressing to her as well as the fact that she reads a book and all the words are in Latin to her (but not to anyone else). Michael gets it translated and it is a prayer. Spooky! The scheme is that the church is somehow taking people suicidal and then forcing them to live out the rest of their lives as folks of the cloth? Basically the poor sap, I mean, Priest, that is upstairs always watching but not seeing (as Alison so kindly pointed out) used to be a man by a different name who apparently committed suicide BUT really he lived and they made him a priest! Wack! Simply wack! But even worse they find a file saying that the church is going to turn Alison next! They only have one day to save her from the transformation and they don’t even know how it happens exactly!

Okay so basically the people of the cloth are the good guys who stave off the ghosts of the murderers who live in the building and I guess they don’t help the next person who is going to be attached onto by the ghosts because they can only do that dramatically at the end. Seriously, they covered up over the sign that said “this is the entrance to hell” because they want the next nun or priest to waltz in and maybe kill themselves. WACK. They didn't help Alison 'til the end and she went to the door several times! Only at the very end when she is about to end it all do they appear and by then it is too late for any ending other than her becoming the next Sentinel but come ON. She ends up blind and alone, not that Murderer Michael was a keeper but come ON.

Oh yeah, when Michael is killed by the other priest for trying to kill the main creepy priest so he comes back as a spooky ghost and we find out that he got somebody to kill his previous lady! Wack! The most believable thing in this movie was Jeff Goldblum jumping up to help when Alison passed out at a work party. He shoves more food into his mouth and then bursts through the doors with her in his arms and I felt safer than when Tony Todd held Barbara in Night of the Living Dead 1990. 

This movie was slow and weird, it took forever to get to the climax which I thought was pretty convoluted. I don’t understand how the ghosts were giving her headaches, I don’t know why she couldn’t have just left, I don’t know why the priests never really helped her even though they are supposed to be the good guys. This was made in 1977 and it still plays on one of my least favorite tropes, that old = scary/bad by making you think the priest is the bad guy. I think it is a lazy misdirection and it is too obvious, the creepy old priest can’t be the bad guy but hey, all I do is watch horror movies so what would I know.

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Jose Ferrer

Nice bit of leather glove and cigar action going on here, from an episode of Columbo, Mind Over Mayhem (1974). Not my favourite actor but any man looks better with a pair of leather gloves and a cigar.

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Whirlpool (1950) - Otto Preminger