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Please note: Parking this weekend is limited to Nitrate Picture Show attendees, museum visitors, and guests of two scheduled weddings. Thank you for your cooperation. Additionally, there will be no Landscape Tour on Sunday, June 7. 

 

Cyrano de Bergerac

Saturday, March 5, 2022, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
still from Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac  (1950)

(Michael Gordon, US 1950, 113 min., 35mm)

One of Stanley Kramer’s earliest producing efforts is this adaptation of the nineteenth century play by Edmond Rostand. José Ferrer plays the title role of the seventeenth century French warrior-poet with the large nose. Cyrano pines for Roxane (Mala Powers) but declines to tell her, fearing that his physical defect renders him unattractive. When Roxane reveals to Cyrano that she has fallen in love with Christian (William Prince) without ever having talked to him, she asks him to befriend Christian and tell him her feelings. Discovering that Christian doesn’t have the ability to woo Roxane, Cyrano offers to step in as his voice and live his fantasy through Christian. Ferrer earned his only Academy Award in the lead role.

 

Event Details

Dryden Theatre
$7 members
$10 nonmembers
$5 students with ID

$5 17 and under

Advance tickets encouraged.

Patrons must show proof of COVID vaccination (regardless of age), photo ID and wear masks. 

Tickets no longer for sale

About This Series

Conscientious Director: Stanley Kramer

Producer/director Stanley Kramer made his name as a director of “message films,” works that examined and challenged notions of society and the problems it faced. From the beginning of his career, Kramer worked outside of the studio system, forming his own production company. This allowed him to work cheaply by renting space instead of owning it, and without studio control. As a producer, he tackled prejudice (Cyrano de Bergerac), social responsibility (High Noon), disaffected youth (The Wild One), and authoritarianism (The Caine Mutiny). Moving into the director’s chair allowed him to have a more direct hand on the narrative as he examined racism (The Defiant Ones and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), evolution vs. creationism (Inherit the Wind), and the threat of nuclear war (On the Beach). 

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