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Interview with José Ferrer [unedited version].
- Title
- Interview with José Ferrer [unedited version].
- Author
- Ferrer, José, 1912-1992
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | *LDC 52731 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting".
- Description
- 2 audio discs : digital, mono; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- A multicultured actor, theater and film director of Puerto Rican origin, Ferrer speaks about the nature of the satisfaction he derives from acting; his work as a director; the way he selects his parts and builds up his characters; his most complex part (Iago); the maliciousness of critics that often leads to discouragement; actors who influenced him (Lunt, Barrymore, Tracy and others); his method of triggering emotion on the stage and studying characters he has to play, and more. Ferrer discusses Stanislavsky and his Method that encourages improvisation, and severely criticizes Lee Strasberg and other Method followers for being dogmatic and arrogant unlike Stanislavsky; defines actors' technique; compares screen acting to stage acting, comedy and farce to tragedy, and describes the difference in the criteria of a star actor in America versus Europe. Throughout the interview, he makes references to top musicians such as Rubinstein, Horowitz, Toscanini and Heifetz, actors such as Wells, Olivier, Lancaster, Fonda, Douglas, Guinness, and sums up the importance of their role as performers: to serve creators - writers and composers.
- Alternative Title
- Actors talk about acting.
- Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting".
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- An edited version of the same interview, conducted by Funke, New York Times editor, and Booth, educational associate and author of numerous articles on theater, for the book "Actors talk about acting" published in 1961, can be found in *LDC 52732.
- Access (note)
- Access to original item restricted.
- Source (note)
- John E Booth;
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting", *L(Special) 89-13.
- Call Number
- *LDC 52731
- OCLC
- 848942009
- Author
- Ferrer, José, 1912-1992, interviewee.
- Title
- Interview with José Ferrer [unedited version].
- Playing Time
- 010323 010423
- Type of Content
- spoken word
- Type of Medium
- audio
- Type of Carrier
- audio disc
- Performer
- José Ferrer, interviewee ; Lewis Funke, John Booth, interviewers.
- Event
- Recorded in NYC, at Ferrer's apartment in The Dakota on Central Park West 1960.
- Access
- Access to original item restricted.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting", *L(Special) 89-13.
- Local Note
- Archival original: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 and 3 3/4 ips, 2 track mono ; 7 in.) in *LT-7 5721.Service CD (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archive originals.On reel with: Interview with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne [unedited version] (service copy in *LDC 52728) and Interview with Vivien Leigh (service copy in *LDC 52730).
- Source
- Gift; John E Booth; 1989.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Funke, Lewis, 1912-1992, interviewer.Booth, John E. (John Erlanger), interviewer.Booth, John E. (John Erlanger), donor.
- Added Title
- Actors talk about acting.Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting".
- Found In:
- Interviews for the book "Actors talk about acting".
- Research Call Number
- *LDC 52731*LT-7 5721