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José Ferrer won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portayal of the swordsman-poet using his silver tongue to woo the woman he loves for another man. Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a fictionalization of his life that follows the broad outlines of it. The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the Alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene. The play has been translated and performed many times, and is responsible for introducing the word "panache" into the English language.
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Mala Powers
Roxane
Lloyd Corrigan
Ragueneau
José Ferrer
Cyrano de Bergerac
Don Beddoe
The Meddler
Virginia Christine
Sister Marthe
Percy Helton
Bellerose
William Prince
Christian de Neuvillette
Morris Carnovsky
Le Bret
Edgar Barrier
Cardinal Richelieu
Virginia Farmer
Duenna
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