Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film)

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Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 American adventure-romance film based on the 1897 French alexandrine drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. It uses poet Brian Hooker's 1923 English blank-verse translation as the basis for its screenplay. The film was the first film version in English of Rostand's play, although there had been several previous film adaptations in various languages. The film was produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by Michael Gordon. José Ferrer received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Cyrano de Bergerac. The film lapsed into the public domain in the mid-1980s. In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

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