Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 black-and-white feature film based on the 1897 French Alexandrine verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. It uses poet Brian Hooker's 1923 English blank verse translation as the basis for its screenplay.[3] The film was the first motion picture version in English of Rostand's play, though there were several earlier adaptations in different languages.
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 was one of the first to employ the then-new Western Electric magnetic sound recording system, which would become commonplace by 1953 and which was a necessity for stereo sound recording and reproduction.
Ferrer won the Academy Award for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. A Golden Globe for Best Cinematography – Black and White went to Franz Planer.
The film also received two Golden Globe nominations, for Picture, and New Star Of The Year for Powers. Michael Gordon was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.
The film is now in the public domain
