The 1987 film ‘Roxanne’ was adapted by actor Steve Martin from which Edmond Rostand play?
Roxanne (film) Roxanne (film) "Not to be confused with "Roxanne" , a song by The Police." Roxanne is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. It is a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's 1897 verse play "Cyrano de Bergerac", adapted by Steve Martin. Rostand is mentioned in the opening credits. C.D. "Charlie" Bales, the fire chief of the small ski town of Nelson, Washington, is an intelligent, humorous, charismatic, athletic and skilled man. Regardless, he is rather sensitive about his abnormally large nose, which many in town have learned not to talk
Edmond Rostand Institut de France. Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, France. When Rostand was twenty years old, his first play, a one-act comedy, "Le Gant rouge", was performed at the Cluny Theatre, 24 August 1888, but it was almost unnoticed. In 1890, Rostand published a volume of poems called "Les Musardises". A burlesque, "Les Romanesques", was produced on 21 May 1894, at the Théâtre Français; it would be adapted in 1960 by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt into the long-running American musical "The Fantasticks". Another early play, "La Princesse Lointaine", was based on the story