Talk:Mel Ferrer

First name
Until he began using the name Mel in the late 1940s, he was continually referred to, in The New York Times, as MELCHIOR Ferrer. This is how he is listed in his father's obituary, articles about his early stage and film career, etc. HOWEVER, that being said, he is referred to an equal number of times as MELCHOR. Can anybody confirm beyond doubt the correct spelling?Kitchawan (talk) 19:16, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Per Princeton University's alumni office, his first name was MELCHOR not MELCHIOR. This is further borne out by his early Playbill listings as well as his Theatre Intime award from Princeton.Kitchawan (talk) 20:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * It seems to me that instead of trying to decide which is correct ourselves, editors can choose one spelling to use in the article (for consistency) and add a footnote to the effect that some sources use a variant spelling. --Sugarbutty (talk) 20:18, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * It seems to me that being correct is what's important here, not to provide variants. Princeton University's alumni office states that his name was MELCHOR, with no I. This seems to me to be as official as it gets.Kitchawan (talk) 20:34, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * According to The New York Public Library, the name MELCHOR G. FERRER is on the cover of Ferrer's 1940 book, "Tito's Hats" (Garden City Publishing, 1940).Kitchawan (talk) 20:48, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Ferrer's father's birthplace
Please do not change to Puerto Rico; his father was born in Cuba and news organizations have been correcting their initial obituaries to reflect this.Kitchawan (talk) 21:53, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Category:Spanish Americans???
The father was born in Cuba, the mother (as says the article) was American. How can Mel Ferrer be categorized as "Spanish-American" (with Spanish should be understood from Spain, Europe)? Also, Catalan ancestry? Being Catalonia a part of Spain, it should say "Spanish" ancestry, right? I mean, otherwise it would be like saying that he is of "Catalan and "New York-ian" ancestry. --Karljoos (talk) 12:16, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

precipitous decline
maybe it's in bad taste to bring up this point, but there are few major (or quasi-major) actors who experienced such a precipitous decline as mel ferrer. he went from major studio productions (and marriage to audrey hepburn) to obscurity and appearances in films such as "eaten alive." (he actually appeared in TWO films entitled "eaten alive"!) he came from a background of impeccable bourgeois respectability, yet the films he appeared in during the latter part of his career were anything but respectable. yet hardly a mention of this is made in the article about his life. i'm curious as to what caused his decline. was it drink, drugs, or did he just go out of fashion? was he indigent during the latter part of his life, or did he love making films so much that he was willing to take roles in even the most minor projects? other performers have experienced declines, of course, but there is something seemingly freakish about mel ferrer's fall from grace. i'm just curious as to what contributed to this decline........

(as far as i am concerned, the films ferrer did at the end of his career are probably more interesting than the ones he did at his height. i've only seen one mel ferrer film, "the great alligator."  i enjoyed it and i enjoyed his performance in it.  if i were an actor, i'd probably prefer appearing in "Fun" independent films such as "the great alligator" and "eaten alive" rather than in major studio monstrosities, but that's me.  i'm a trash film fanatic.  but ferrer seemed so middle class in his family and private life, and presumably in his tastes.  so it's hard to reconcile this with the "sleazy" film work that he accepted.  some explanation seems to be necessary.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.68.9.233 (talk) 21:52, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

'Citation needed'
Why, after the statement..'and was Marcus Aurelius Cleander in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)..' has someone put 'citation needed'? The sentence actually links to the article of the film where he is listed in the cast-list! No 'citation' is needed. 86.87.191.180 (talk) 18:52, 26 January 2023 (UTC)