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The 1950 film was produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by Michael Gordon. José Ferrer received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring performance as Cyrano de Bergerac. Mala Powers played Roxane, and William Prince portrayed Christian de Neuvillette. The film lapsed into the public domain in the mid-1980s.
At the age of 16, Powers began working in radio drama, before becoming a film actress in 1950. Her first movie roles were in Outrage and Edge of Doom in 1950. The same year, Stanley Kramer signed Powers to star with José Ferrer in what may be her most-remembered role as Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. [4]
Roxanne is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. It is a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand 's 1897 verse play Cyrano de Bergerac .
Recent National Film Registry additions of Latino movies have included “Cyrano de Bergerac” (1950), starring Puerto Rican actor José Ferrer, the first Latino ever to win an acting Oscar, with ...
Bigger Than the Sky (2005), in which the protagonist auditions for a local community theater production of Cyrano de Bergerac, and the movie plays out with it as the background theme Cyrano Agency (2010), a South Korean romance-comedy of a group of actors and stage experts working as professional love makers by writing monologues, staging ...
The list of Latino films inducted to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress grew a bit longer Wednesday with “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “The Ballad
Mike Donahue directs Martin Crimp's free-hand adaptation of Edmond Rostand's classic "Cyrano de Bergerac' in a production starring Chukwudi Iwuji in the title role.
Her signature role was as Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Walter Hampden in the title role. She married Vernon (aka Clark) Tharp Chesney in 1938. The couple had a son, David, in 1947. In 1948, due to her husband's illness, the family moved from New York City to Los Angeles where she began her movie and TV career.