Editing José Ferrer (section)

===''Cyrano de Bergerac''===
[[File:Actor Jose Ferrer in costume at Maple Leaf Gardens.jpg|left|thumb|Ferrer in costume in an unnamed play at Maple Leaf Gardens]]
Ferrer may be best remembered for his performance in the title role of ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'', which he first played on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in 1946. Ferrer feared that the production would be a failure in rehearsals, due to the open dislike for the play by director [[Mel Ferrer]] (no relation), so he called in [[Joshua Logan]] (who had directed his star-making performance in ''[[Charley's Aunt]]'') to serve as "play doctor" for the production. Logan wrote that he simply had to eliminate pieces of business which director Ferrer had inserted in his staging; they presumably were intended to sabotage the more sentimental elements of the play that the director considered to be corny and in bad taste.<ref>{{cite book| first=Joshua| last=Logan| title=Josh, My Up and Down, In and Out Life| publisher=Delacorte Press| date=1 May 1976| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IqUR9zWAGv0C&q=cyrano| pages=79–80| isbn=978-0440042358| url-access=subscription}}</ref> The production became one of the hits of the 1946/47 Broadway season, winning Ferrer the first Best Actor [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play|Tony Award]] for his depiction of the long-nosed poet/swordsman.

On January 9, 1949, Ferrer made his television debut when he starred in ''[[The Philco Television Playhouse]]''{{'}}s one-hour adaptation of the play.<ref name=v>{{cite magazine |date=January 12, 1949 |page=30 |title=Tele Follow-up Comment |magazine=Variety |url=https://archive.org/details/variety173-1949-01/page/n306/mode/1up?view=theater |accessdate=January 3, 2023}}</ref>

Ferrer directed, but did not appear in, ''As We Forgive Our Debtors'' (1947), which ran 5 performances. There was another short run for ''[[Volpone]]'' (1947) which Ferrer adapted and played the title role.<ref>{{cite news| title=Jose Ferrer (Cartoon)| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/04/20/archives/jose-ferrer.html| newspaper=The New York Times| date=20 April 1947| page=SM25| url-access=subscription}}</ref>