And 10 years later in 1961 we made history again with the first latin woman to win a oscar, rita moreno in west side story. Jose ferrer was the first latin man. both puerto ricans.
@@zoerodriguez2530 Couldn't agree more Ms Zoe, I never said he is PuertoRican. Yo sé perfectamente la diferencia entre una cosa y la otra. Bendiciones desde San Juan (yo sí lo soy, nacido y criado aquí) !!!
@@zoerodriguez2530 Aun así me dio mucho gusto que por fin se llevara un Óscar. Joaquín ha expresado en entrevistas el cariño que siente por PR y por los recuerdos que tiene de sus años aquí, incluso le entra sin miedo al español.
@@luishumbertovega3900 No es por llevarte la contraria, pero en un lugar leí que él dijo que la peor étapa de su vida fue la que vivió en P.R y pensé que era por la pobreza en que vivía la familia.Yo también me alegré mucho de que ganara el Oscar.Ya lo merecía.
He was an Awesome actor, that put heart and soul into his acting. Doesn't mean these other actors weren't wonderful! Ignorance is yours! Lol lol Haaaahaaaaa
Coulda, shoulda, but didn't.. Won already, and he could have easily won for "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" but didn't.. No, not for "Harvey" ---- but I would have given him another Oscar for one of his Hitchcock roles, maybe. But then he also got an Honorary Oscar didn't he? No Spencer Tracy was awarded for "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" when for me Freddie Bartholomew was the whole show. Freddie Bartholomew gave a poignant performance in "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS." William Holden should have won, but JOSE FERRER was not terribe as Cyrano. Maybe he won for the "NOSE" or by a NOSE --- like Nicole Kideman did for THE HOURS.
Superb performance there, too. Great scene--tossing drink into Fred MacMurray's face. I grew up in NY, saw all the Broadway plays, from 1948's South Pacific to 1960's My Fair Lady. But the best performance I ever saw was Jose Ferrer's Man of La Mancha, a traveling show, when it came to Dallas in around 1970-71.. It was as though that play was written for him, or that he was born to play Don Quixote. They don't make actors like him anymore.
William Holden was arguably better as Joe Gillis opposite Gloria Swanson in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard than in Wilder's Stalag 17, which he won the Best Actor Oscar for the following year. Ferrer was a superb actor in a well mounted production.
MrImiller07 That might be so, but Jose Ferrer IMHO was one of the best if not the best performance ever in Movie for a novel character. It was as if he was born and destine to play the role of Cyrano.
Jose Ferrer was actor George Clooney's uncle by marriage. Ferrer's wife was the famous singer Rosemary Clooney. She and George Clooney's father Nick Clooney were brother and sister.
dflartist That just tells how awesome Ferrer was in Cyrano. I love Spencer Tracy. I am only in my early 30's but I love the classics. FOTB was a great performance by Tracy, but Ferrer put together one of the best performance of all time with Cyrano.
At 43 James Stewart was too young for the role in Harvey. He was still playing the role on stage in the 1970's - which would have been a perfect time to remake it.
This is actually the Oscar for movies released in 1950, the ceremony was held in 1951. And I think it's kind of odd how Ms. Hayes completely ignores Fred Astaire while he tries to discreetly disappear into the background. That was not well handled, in my opinion.
How is this odd? She is doing it the same way as presenters normally do. Ms Hayes was there to hand out the Oscar and focused on that task instead of looking over her shoulder to keep track of Astaire. They were both equally huge stars, and Astaire was the host of the show. Look at today's Oscars, hosts like Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Patrick Harris etc introduce the presenters and then exit the stage, and the presenters don't interact with the host on stage. Hayes and Astaire later co-starred in a movie in 1978, "A Family Upside Down".
ghir younes The Oscars are always held the following spring for all the movies nominated the year before. This was in 1951 so it was for movies released in 1950. Streetcar was eligible the following year (1952).
This must have been a very hard choice. Spencer Tracy gave the best performance of his career in "Father of The Bride". Had he not won the previous two Oscars (neither of them were deserving) I would have given it to him for this role. Having said that, I feel William Holden was the major contender in "Sunset Boulevard".
Are you really that dumb? Tracy's previous two Oscars were richly deserved. Holden should have won for Sunset Blvd. Ferrer's performance was stagey, fake, and doesn't hold up. It was a TERRIBLE choice.
That was a quite an effective and heartfelt speech from a guy who wasn't even there in person.
Oh, that modern technology of tele-phone. :D
The First Lady of the American Theatre giving an award to a prized thespian. Well deserved, and I just saw the movie the other day!
And 10 years later in 1961 we made history again with the first latin woman to win a oscar, rita moreno in west side story. Jose ferrer was the first latin man. both puerto ricans.
Y eso es asi
Yes! You'd be surprised how many Latinos do not know this! Omg!
And what a voice!!!
@@mickeymouse2able you mean , how many ricans dont know this .
Jose ferrer was Spanish just born in Puerto Rico. Not Puerto Rican.
Puerto Ricans making history again !!!!!!
Helen Hayes has so much Class!! She was one of the best in those years!❤
Wow what a line-up of outstanding talent! No fancy lights, stage sets or production numbers. Just talent.
And no self-righteous, pompous politics.
I love Jose Ferrer and I loved him in Cyrano, have watched it hundreds of times, never tire!.. well deserved Oscar.
That movie made me have a huge crush on him
Terrible performance. All the others were more deserving.
What an amazing speech from Jose Ferrer.
Almost 70 years later another actor born in Puerto Rico, Joaquín Phoenix, won the same award for his performance in Joker !!!
Joaquin Phoenix is not puertorican.
He was born in P.R. but his parents not puertoricans.
@@zoerodriguez2530 Couldn't agree more Ms Zoe, I never said he is PuertoRican. Yo sé perfectamente la diferencia entre una cosa y la otra.
Bendiciones desde San Juan (yo sí lo soy, nacido y criado aquí) !!!
@@luishumbertovega3900
Entiendo.😀😀
@@zoerodriguez2530 Aun así me dio mucho gusto que por fin se llevara un Óscar. Joaquín ha expresado en entrevistas el cariño que siente por PR y por los recuerdos que tiene de sus años aquí, incluso le entra sin miedo al español.
@@luishumbertovega3900
No es por llevarte la contraria, pero en un lugar leí que él dijo que la peor étapa de su vida fue la que vivió en P.R y pensé que era por la pobreza en que vivía la familia.Yo también me alegré mucho de que ganara el Oscar.Ya lo merecía.
Jose Ferrer was in New York with Gloria Swanson and Judy Holliday, waiting for the results.
That voice! Rosemary! José had it all. The genuine love. The genuine respect. Huston said he was the greatest kindest actor ever! Including Nicholson!
My cousin was the man.
josé ferrer his Oscar nomination, joan of arc, cyrano de bergerac and Moulin Rouge are the roles of French characters.
Absolutement!
cats pajamas you seem to have trouble with the French. I'm not good with English also.
He was french looking and was very fluent in french.
He was a Very well deserved actor!! Actors like Artists are not always recognized when they should be.
Puerto Rican pride!
thats my cousin r.i.p boricua pride! he gave it to the university of puerto rico
@@aferrer74 I'm a huge fan of your cousin
🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 my cousin was so talented. Que viva Puerto Rico too many talented people come out of Puerto Rico.
@@doctorpretorious9911 nice !
That's quite a group of actors to compete with
Jose did an excellent portrayed bravo
Best Cyrano ever!!!
Helen Hayes was just a lovely woman!
He was an Awesome actor, that put heart and soul into his acting. Doesn't mean these other actors weren't wonderful! Ignorance is yours! Lol lol Haaaahaaaaa
Helen Hayes, even the ever ready old lady even when she was young(er)
Jose Ferrer’s groundbreaking performance laid the groundwork for Puerto Rico to stake their claim in Hollywood. Boricua Pa Que Tu Lo Sepas 🇵🇷
Donde estaba José Ferrer?
best actor ever!!!!
I also think that James Stewart was brilliant in Harvey and also could have won.
Coulda, shoulda, but didn't.. Won already, and he could have easily won for "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE" but didn't.. No, not for "Harvey" ---- but I would have given him another Oscar for one of his Hitchcock roles, maybe. But then he also got an Honorary Oscar didn't he? No Spencer Tracy was awarded for "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" when for me Freddie Bartholomew was the whole show. Freddie Bartholomew gave a poignant performance in "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS." William Holden should have won, but JOSE FERRER was not terribe as Cyrano. Maybe he won for the "NOSE" or by a NOSE --- like Nicole Kideman did for THE HOURS.
Oscar history made!!!
Should've won for Caine Mutiny too 🇵🇷
Superb performance there, too. Great scene--tossing drink into Fred MacMurray's face. I grew up in NY, saw all the Broadway plays, from 1948's South Pacific to 1960's My Fair Lady. But the best performance I ever saw was Jose Ferrer's Man of La Mancha, a traveling show, when it came to Dallas in around 1970-71.. It was as though that play was written for him, or that he was born to play Don Quixote. They don't make actors like him anymore.
@@jamescain6414 thank u James, that was my cousin so talented .🇵🇷
Back when the OSCARS meant the BEST and not the WOKEST!
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William Holden was arguably better as Joe Gillis opposite Gloria Swanson in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard than in Wilder's Stalag 17, which he won the Best Actor Oscar for the following year. Ferrer was a superb actor in a well mounted production.
MrImiller07 That might be so, but Jose Ferrer IMHO was one of the best if not the best performance ever in Movie for a novel character. It was as if he was born and destine to play the role of Cyrano.
This is incorrect. He won it in 1950 not 1951.
Oye Alaja-Browne awards always Year after film
My cousin Jose nice
Did you ever meet him?
Yes
Jose Ferrer was actor George Clooney's uncle by marriage. Ferrer's wife was the famous singer Rosemary Clooney. She and George Clooney's father Nick Clooney were brother and sister.
@@michaelverbakel7632 👍
I heard he turned down the lead in The Lost Weekend. What a huge mistake that was !
MAGNIFICO
Tracy's best performance..my opinion of course.
dflartist That just tells how awesome Ferrer was in Cyrano. I love Spencer Tracy. I am only in my early 30's but I love the classics. FOTB was a great performance by Tracy, but Ferrer put together one of the best performance of all time with Cyrano.
Yes, your opinion
No! It was in Captains Courageous!
What the hell is Fred babbling about?
F
That's pimp he didn't even show up lol
The first and....so far, the only Latino actor to win the Best Actor Oscar.
The most deserving one too
Proud of my cousin 🇵🇷
Anthony Quinn
Benicio del Toro.
@@RaulAPinto To win Best Actor. They've only won Best Supporting Actor.
At 43 James Stewart was too young for the role in Harvey. He was still playing the role on stage in the 1970's - which would have been a perfect time to remake it.
70 years later, only two other Latinos have been nominated for Best Actor (Anthony Quinn & Demian Bichir) and no wins.
Uhhhh....ANTHONY QUINN won TWO Oscars CHULO!!
@@trumancapote9097 Both wins for "Best Supporting Actor" not "Best Actor," pendejo!
Ana DeArmas might become the first Latina Best Lead Actress winner for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in 'Blonde (2020)'!
Never I know fir that time...should say he was Puerto Rican
This is actually the Oscar for movies released in 1950, the ceremony was held in 1951. And I think it's kind of odd how Ms. Hayes completely ignores Fred Astaire while he tries to discreetly disappear into the background. That was not well handled, in my opinion.
How is this odd? She is doing it the same way as presenters normally do. Ms Hayes was there to hand out the Oscar and focused on that task instead of looking over her shoulder to keep track of Astaire. They were both equally huge stars, and Astaire was the host of the show. Look at today's Oscars, hosts like Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Patrick Harris etc introduce the presenters and then exit the stage, and the presenters don't interact with the host on stage.
Hayes and Astaire later co-starred in a movie in 1978, "A Family Upside Down".
William Holden was robbed for Sunset Boulevard
No.José Ferrer was amazing actor.
@@zoerodriguez2530 I know he is but William Holden suppose to win it
"a streetcar named desire'' was released in this year 1951 so why marlon brando isnt nominated or better yet winning the award
ghir younes The Oscars are always held the following spring for all the movies nominated the year before. This was in 1951 so it was for movies released in 1950. Streetcar was eligible the following year (1952).
ghir younes hey Steeelaaaa
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For me, it is etheir betwen Stewart or Holden that should have won this Oscar
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+Charlton Heston Thanks!
Should have been William Holden!!
It really should
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This must have been a very hard choice. Spencer Tracy gave the best performance of his career in "Father of The Bride". Had he not won the previous two Oscars (neither of them were deserving) I would have given it to him for this role. Having
said that, I feel William Holden was the major contender in "Sunset Boulevard".
Are you really that dumb? Tracy's previous two Oscars were richly deserved. Holden should have won for Sunset Blvd. Ferrer's performance was stagey, fake, and doesn't hold up. It was a TERRIBLE choice.
TheTerryE Listen you loser, STOP, CEASE and DESIST from harassing people on this website.
cats pajamas you two was boring, not stop you to fight for the views of one who deserves to win the Oscar.
sly Cinéma Je t'aime maintenant.
TheTerryE Sly Cinema told us off, eh Terry? Comprendez-vous?? Qui.
wow my cousin won the oscar.
a ferng how old are you?
@@carlosbarbosa9062 I'm old enough
And the Oscar goes to: William Holden! 👏👏👏👏
So ashamed...NEVER THANKED HE WAS PUERTO RICAN ...PUTTING YOUR OSCAR AT UPR NOT ENOUGH
like all Puerto Ricans that won not one ....NOT ONE THANKS PUERTO RIC😂
awkward
Isn't he white tho?
Too, too much talk before presenting. JAYsus.
Gus HR Agree!.. :-)