Editing José Ferrer (section)

===Film stardom===
Ferrer then played the title role in ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'' (1950), directed by [[Michael Gordon (film director)|Michael Gordon]] and produced by [[Stanley Kramer]]. Ferrer won the Best Actor Oscar, becoming the first actor to win the Oscar for the same role which won him the Tony. The film was widely seen although it lost money.<ref name="tino">{{cite book| first=Tino| last=Balio| title=United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry| publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]]| date=December 15, 1987| page=47| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QljKdIYzncoC| isbn=978-0299114404| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Ferrer donated the Oscar to the University of Puerto Rico, and it was subsequently stolen in 2000.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jose-ferrer-oscar-mystery-statuette-867616| title=Jose Ferrer Oscar Mystery: Statuette MIA, and the Academy Won't Replace It| newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]| language=en| last=Morrison| first=Mark| access-date=27 June 2020}}</ref>
 
Ferrer returned to Broadway for a revival of ''[[Twentieth Century (play)|Twentieth Century]]'' (1950–51) which he directed and starred in, opposite [[Gloria Swanson]]; it went for 233 performances. Immediately following, he produced and directed, but did not appear in, ''Stalag 17'' (1951–52), a big hit running for 472 performances. Even more popular was ''[[The Fourposter]]'' (1951–53) in which he directed [[Hume Cronyn]] and [[Jessica Tandy]]; it ran for 632 performances.

Ferrer returned to cinema screens in the comedy ''[[Anything Can Happen]]'' (1952), directed by [[George Seaton]], where Ferrer played an immigrant.

More popular was ''[[Moulin Rouge (1952 film)|Moulin Rouge]]'' (1952) in which Ferrer played the role of [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Toulouse-Lautrec]] under [[John Huston]]'s direction.<ref>'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', ''Variety'', 13 January 1954</ref> Ferrer received 40% of the profits<ref>{{cite court| date=5 June 1952| url=http://openjurist.org/304/f2d/125/commissioner-of-internal-revenue-v-ferrer| vol=304| court=F. 2d Cir| opinion=125| litigants=Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Ferrer| access-date=27 June 2020| via=OpenJurist}}</ref> as well as his third and final Oscar nomination.

Back on Broadway, Ferrer directed and starred in ''[[The Shrike (play)|The Shrike]]'' (1952), which ran for 161 performances.<ref>Coe, Richard L. (10 February 1952). "48th Street Salutes Genius of Ferrer". ''[[The Washington Post]]'': L1.</ref>

His next two shows were as director only: [[Horton Foote]]'s ''The Chase'' (1952) only had a short run but ''[[My Three Angels (play)|My Three Angels]]'' (1953–54), went for 344 performances.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.playbill.com/production/my-3-angels-morosco-theatre-vault-0000002439| title=My 3 Angels| journal=Playbill Vault| access-date=June 27, 2020}}</ref>

Ferrer had another cinema hit with ''[[Miss Sadie Thompson]]'' (1953) starring [[Rita Hayworth]].<ref>'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1954', ''Variety Weekly'', January 5, 1955</ref> Ferrer briefly revived some of his shows at the City Centre in 1953: Cyrano, ''The Shrike'', ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'', ''Charley's Aunt''.<ref>Chapman, John (29 November 1953). "Jose Ferrer Donates Self to City Center" ''Chicago Daily Tribune'': E5.</ref>
[[File:Jose Ferrer in Caine Mutiny.jpg|thumb|Ferrer as Lieutenant Barney Greenwald in ''[[The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)|The Caine Mutiny]],'' released in 1954]]

He returned to films with ''[[The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)|The Caine Mutiny]]'' (1954) for Kramer, co-starring with [[Humphrey Bogart]] and [[Van Johnson]], playing defense lawyer Barney Greenwald; the film was a huge hit.<ref>[http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1954/0CMUT.php "''The Caine Mutiny'': Summary"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928234117/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1954/0CMUT.php |date=2013-09-28 }}. ''The Numbers''. Retrieved April 15, 2013.</ref> Greenwald's [[Judaism|Jewish]] faith, so prominent in the novel that it informed his judgments of the U.S.S. ''Caine's'' officers, was downplayed in the film, as Ferrer, being Puerto Rican, was nominally [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]].

Also popular was ''[[Deep in My Heart (1954 film)|Deep in My Heart]]'' (1955) where Ferrer played [[Sigmund Romberg]], and which made a profit of over $1 million.<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title=The Eddie Mannix Ledger| publisher=Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study| place=Los Angeles}}</ref>