Cyrano De Bergerac Film 1945 Series Of Classic
Watch Now Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)News Headlines & Entertainment Trivia from November, 1950: Playwright George Bernard Shaw dies Classic film premiere of Cyrano de Bergerac, starring José Ferrer Sammy Kaye has the #1 song with Harbor Lights. Watch Now His Girl Friday (1940) Craziness abounds in this classic re-working of the original 1930 film version of the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Burlington Film Society Presents is a community-curated series of classic films, from Hollywood hits to B-list sci-fi.
This was the first Academy Award to be won by a Hispanic actor, and by a Puerto Rican-born American.Cyrano de Bergerac was remade in 1990 in French, starring French actor Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano.Steve Martin’s romantic comedy Roxanne (1987) is based on Cyrano de Bergerac, but made as a comedy with a Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall, Fred Willard, Michael J. José Ferrer had previously won the Tony Award for his starring role in the 1947 stage version of the play, which had been directed by Mel Ferrer (no relation).At the 23rd Academy Awards ceremony (for films released in 1950), José Ferrer won the Best Actor Oscar, beating out Louis Calhern ( The Magnificent Yankee), William Holden ( Sunset Boulevard), James Stewart ( Harvey), and Spencer Tracy ( Father of the Bride). Rostand based Cyrano on a real person – big-nosed French satirical and fantasy writer Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (aka Savinien de Cyrano, dit de Bergerac 1619-1655), who was reported to have indeed fought duels over the size of his nose.Although Cyrano de Bergerac was not an instant box-office success, it was critically acclaimed. Roxane sends a message to Cyrano to meet her the next day.( Ralph Clanton & José Ferrer, William Prince in background 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac Photo: Focus)That night, the Comte de Guiche (Ralph Clanton), friend of the slain Valvert and himself an object of Cyrano‘s mockery, tries unsuccessfully to have his henchmen ambush and kill Cyrano.Cyrano is crushed when Roxane tells him she has likes handsome young guardsman Christian de Neuvillette (William Prince) and asks him to keep Christian safe.( Mala Powers & William Prince 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac)Cyrano only wants Roxane to be happy, so he helps the tongue-tied Christian court her, leading to a string of unforeseen consequences.( José Ferrer & Morris Carnovsky 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac)Morris Carnovsky plays Cyrano’s friend and fellow guardsman Le Bret, Lloyd Corrigan is poet and pastry chef Ragueneau, and Elena Verdugo is a servant girl who seems struck by Cyrano the man, vs the nose.Playing some of the other minor characters in the movie are actors better known later for their television appearances – John Crawford ( The Waltons), Gilman Rankin ( Tombstone Territory), and Jerry Paris ( The Dick Van Dyke Show).( José Ferrer 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac Photo: Screenland)Playwright Edmond Rostand’s (translated from French to English) words trip eloquently from the lips of compelling lead actor José Ferrer in character as Cyrano de Bergerac. And of course, Roxane can’t see past the nose on his face (or hers) to the man inside. Ayn Rand nahm in ihrem Drehbuch zahlreiche Anleihen bei Edmond Rostands Versdrama Cyrano de Bergerac.( José Ferrer & Mala Powers 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac)Directed by Michael Gordon, the screenplay of Cyrano de Bergerac was based on Edmond Rostand’s 1897 drama and was adapted for the movie by Carl Foreman.Cyrano de Bergerac is a man whose poetic eloquence is only matched by the size of his nose and the brilliance of his swordsmanship.( José Ferrer & Albert Cavens, Ralph Clanton in background 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac)The film opens with Cyrano turning a mundane insult from French nobleman Vicomte de Valvert (Albert Cavens) into an excuse for a duel, demonstrating all of his powers of speech and sword.( Mala Powers & Virginia Farmer 1950 Cyrano de Bergerac)Watching the duel are his beautiful cousin Roxane (Mala Powers) and her duenna (Virginia Farmer).Cyrano is in love with Roxane but can’t bring himself to declare his feelings, for fear of rejection.
A 2009 Canadian remake has Christopher Plummer as Caesar. Caesar and Cleopatra(1901) – The most notable feature film version of Caesar and Cleopatra is the 1945 biographical comedy-drama starring Claude Rains as Caesar and Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra, with Stewart Granger and Flora Robson. His original works and adaptations of his plays are still being performed on stages and filmed for movies and television todayPrior to becoming a famed playwright, Shaw was best known as a music, book, and theatre critic for London newspapers and magazines beginning in the 1880s.From 1983-1899 Shaw began to focus on writing plays, and saw his first one produced on stage that year ( Widower’s Houses, originally written in 1884).Many of George Bernard Shaw’s plays have been translated into several different languages, and have been performed on stages around the world.( George Bernard Shaw 1921 Photo: Hoppe of London / Shadowland)The play Shaw is most closely associated with and is the best known of his works, is Pygmalion (1913).It has been filmed as a movie numerous times, the most famous adaptation of which is the 1964 Academy Award-winning musical My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, and Wilfrid Hyde-White.Pygmalion (1938) starring Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard, was the first major English-language movie based on Shaw’s play.Noteworthy adaptations of Shaw’s works for film:
The Platters 1960 recording of Harbor Lights was a #8 hit single on Billboard.Nee Samuel Zarnocay, Jr. The couple had no children, having married in their early forties in what some have speculated was a marriage of friendship rather than romantic love.Sammy Kaye’s Harbor Lights is the #1 Hit SongOrchestra leader Sammy Kaye reached the #1 sport on Billboard the week of Novemwith his version of Harbor Lights, sung by Tony Alamo and The Kaydets.Written by composer Hugh Williams and Jimmy Kennedy, 1950 was a big year for Harbor Lights, with recordings released by Guy Lombardo’s orchestra, Bing Crosby, and Ray Anthony’s orchestra all making it onto the song charts with varying levels of success.( Sammy Kaye and Orchestra 1939 Photo: Radio and Television Mirror)Harbor Lights had been a modest hit in 1937 when singer Frances Langford was the first to record it her recording was followed by crooner Rudy Vallée’s version. In subsequent years, Harbor Lights was recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley, The Ink Spots, Ken Griffin, Lawrence Welk, Engelbert Humperdinck, Vera Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Willie Nelson. Recently, The Billionaire (2020) starring Heather Tom, is an adaptation of the play.( George Bernard Shaw & Rex Ingram 1928: Screenland | Bernard Shaw 1930: Exhibitor’s Daily Review)George Bernard Shaw was 94 when he died of renal failure in 1950 he was pre-deceased by his wife Charlotte in 1943. Several stage productions have featured well known actresses as the title Millionairess, notably Edith Evans (the play was written for her to star in), Jessie Royce Landis, and Katharine Hepburn.The 1960 movie The Millionairess stars Sophia Loren, with Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, and Dennis Price.
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