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Cyrano 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 BanksCyrano de Bergerac (By permission of London Film Productions, Ltd)
Alban Blakelock
Renee Blakelock
Valentine BrookeRageuneau
Arthur BurneLignière
Richard Careyd’Artagnan
Constance CummingsRoxane
Ella Daincourt
Ernest HareDe Valvert
Peter Henschel
Mary Lennox
June Mallory
James MasonChristian de Neuvillette
Philip Morant
André MorrellLe Bret
Humphrey Morton
Reginald Pelden
John RoderickAramis
George SkillanCarbon de Castel-Jaloux
Philip ThornleyPorthos
Frank TickleMontfleury
Kenneth Villiers
Osmund Wilson
John WyseComte 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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