Mel Ferrer, Actor-Director Husband Of Audrey Hepburn, Dies
In 1933 he graduated from Princeton University, where he wrote a senior thesis titled French Naturalism and Pardo Baz and was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club. Ferrer made his Broadway debut in 1935. In 1940, he played his first starring role on Broadway, the title role in Charleys Aunt part of it in drag. He played Iago in Margaret Websters 1943 Broadway production of Othello, starring Paul Robeson in the title role, Webster as Emilia, and Ferrers wife at the time, Uta Hagen, as Desdemona.
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