Learning on ScreenCyrano de Bergerac
- Summary
- 1938 BBC Television studio production of Edmond Rostand’s comic drama Cyrano de Bergerac.
- Theatre play
- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 30 October 1938
- Time
- 9.25pm (90 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Playwright
- Edmond Rostand (1868-1918)
- Translator
- Robert Loraine
- Music
- Jean Nougués
- Conductor
- Hyam Greenbaum
- Orchestra Directed by
- Boris Pecker
- Cast
Leslie Banks Cyrano de Bergerac (By permission of London Film Productions, Ltd) Alban Blakelock Renee Blakelock Valentine Brooke Rageuneau Arthur Burne Lignière Richard Carey d’Artagnan Constance Cummings Roxane Ella Daincourt Ernest Hare De Valvert Peter Henschel Mary Lennox June Mallory James Mason Christian de Neuvillette Philip Morant André Morrell Le Bret Humphrey Morton Reginald Pelden John Roderick Aramis George Skillan Carbon de Castel-Jaloux Philip Thornley Porthos Frank Tickle Montfleury Kenneth Villiers Osmund Wilson John Wyse Comte de Guiche
Additional details
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Friday 4 November 1938.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- French drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 28 October 1938 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing p. 16 and article on p. 15
- Title
- Televised Drama: Cyrano de Bergerac (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Anonymous (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Times, 2 November 1938, p. 12
- Notes
- 'It seems that in order to succeed television will have to achieve the same mobility as the films, the same variety of scenes, the same attention to detail. Certainly there was much to praise in Mr George More O’Farrell’s production, and anyone who wishes to see Mr Leslie Banks play a great part in the grand manner should see it on Friday afternoon when it will be repeated.'
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