The Marriage of Maria Braun film "Lili Marleen" with Hanna Schygulla in the main role. Horst Wendlandt would produce the two other films in the BRD Trilogy, "Lola" and "Veronika Voss". His success also allowed him to realize his last project, "Querelle" which was co-financed by Gaumont. As Fengler had oversold the rights to the film, the profit share of Fassbinder was an open question. Eckelkamp saw himself as the sole owner of all rights, but sent a check in the amount of 70,000 DM to Fassbinder in 1982 to appease the director. After Fassbinder's death his mother and heiress Liselotte Eder revived the claims,
José Ferrer supporting Gene Tierney, and Richard Brooks' "Crisis" (1950), opposite Cary Grant. Ferrer then played the title role in "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1950), directed by Michael Gordon and produced by Stanley Kramer. Ferrer won the Best Actor Oscar. The film was widely seen although it lost money. Ferrer returned to Broadway for a revival of "Twentieth Century" (1950–51) which he directed and starred in, opposite Gloria Swanson; it went for 233 performances. Ferrer produced and directed, but did not appear in, "Stalag 17" (1951–52), a big hit running for 472 performances. Even more popular was "The Fourposter" (1951–53) in which he