How tall was Mel Ferrer?
Mel Ferrer, actor / director / producer, was born in Elberon, New Jersey, on 25 August 1917, to Melchor Gaston Ferrer. The son of a Cuban-born physician and a socialite from Manhattan, he went to prep school and attended the University of Princeton. He had worked in summer stock from the age of 15.He was an editor on a small Vermont newspaper after Princeton and wrote a children's book, "Tito's Hats." In 1938 he was a chorus dancer on Broadway in two musicals, and two years later made his New York debut as an actor. He started out in radio as a disk jockey in Texas and Arkansas following a bout with polio and climbed to producer-director of top-rated NBC shows in New York. He made a small breakthrough with the low-budget The Girl of the Limberlost (1945) as a producer at Columbia, and returned to acting on Broadway to appear in Lillian Smith's "Strange Fruit."
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