leonari says on 31/Dec/08
Dustin Hoffman said on his recent Dave Letterman visit that he played a joke on Jose Ferrer dressed as "Tootise"(watch it: hilarious!!!)
He said he was short, his height...
Here is Hoffman on Letterman:
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Either Dustin is very bad ad estimating heights or Jose was much shorter by then than 5'10". But Dustin was probably wearing womens heels when he played that joke on Jose. I highly doubt that José was ever a full 5'10". Like Frank 2 said max 5'9"
Frank2 says on 30/Apr/06
Well, my dad was 5'9.5" and my brother is 6'1" so there's goes that argument right out the window. And how about Donald Sutherland being near 6'4" and his son being many inches shorter? José was 5'9". There is no more argument coming from for me since I both saw him in person and watched his various films. His publicity made him 5'10". Watch the film Crises starring Cary Grant and tell me José was even 5'10". He's four inches shorter than Grant. Hell! He might of been only 5'8". Frank2 says on 21/Apr/06
Lifts on wax dummies? That's a riot! When I saw Andy Williams he was several inches shorter than me and looked about 5'7". I didn't bother to look at his shoes.
Burns was truly little once he became an octogenarian. Paul says on 20/Apr/06
From what I've heard, Andy Williams is less than 5'7". He might be closer to 5'4" or 5'5". He wears huge, and I mean huge, lifts. If you ever see him perform, check out his footwear. Evel Knievel could launch off them.
George Burns was listed at 5'7" in his younger days, but that is now suspect given Frank2's statement Benny was that height since Burns was shorter. Burns was probably no more than 5'3" or 5'4" by the time he reached his 90s. Bob Hope towered over him! And Bob didn't tower over many people in his later years. I've seen the wax figures of both Hope and Burns at Madamme Tussauds. Hope is portrayed as being 5'10ish while Burns is a couple of inches shorter. The funny thing is, both figures are wearing lifts. Frank2 says on 20/Apr/06
Frank was 5'7". Frank2 says on 19/Apr/06
I was speaking with an old friend who was with me way back when I met Danny Kaye, Jack Benny and Kirk Douglas at an outdoor party in Brentwood, California held by Bob Laverty who owned Thriftymart and was a close friend of my friend's parents. That was back in the late sixties. Anyway, he told me that he believes there were some photos taken that day with us standing with some of these stars and he's trying to get them from Laverty who's now quite ill. If he finds them I'll post them here. You can see that Kirk is 5'8" standing next to me. The difference is identical to me with Jeffrey Kramer on his thread on this website. Danny Kaye was about my height and Jack Benny was no more than 5'7". If I remember correctly, Kaye's wife Sylvia Fine was with him that day. I believe Benny was alone. Douglas was holding court with several attractive women surrounding him. Kaye was nice, but quite shy. And I think George Burns was there. I'd see him occasionally at General Service studios where he kept an office until he died. That's where the old Burns and Allen TV show was filmed. Burns was short, shorter than Jack Beeny and the last time I saw him he looked so short that he only came up to my shoulder. Frank2 says on 19/Apr/06
Positive. I met him and he was about an inch shorter than me on one occasion and on another he was wearing lifts and was about my height. I knew Jerry and he was 5'10". Both men were roughly the same size, although Dean always wore lifts while Jerry didn't which now makes me wonder if Dean was acually about 5'9.5". I first met Dean one day at NBC/Burbank back when he was doing his TV show. I happen to run into him in the hallway outside the studio. I saw Johnny Carson there as well and he was about 5'10". One TV star really surprised me as to how short he was and that was Andy Williams. He was about 5'7". Frank2 says on 18/Apr/06
Yes, I've seen Lawrence (many times) and José is wearing boots with two inch heels and lifts inside. In close-up's he's on a ramp. I've been on dozens of movie sets and watched how they shift actors to appear closer to another in height especially in close-up's. This is done more for esthetic reasons than to accentuate another actor's size. But in Lawrence they were making out Ferrer to be a brutal Turkish Bey so I feel that David Lean did this on purpose. Frank2 says on 17/Apr/06
Ferrer was 5'9" max. Frank2 says on 16/Apr/06
Nope. Jose was 5'9". |
