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Roxanne (1987) More at IMDbPro »

• Steve Martin's screenplay is based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)" by _Edmond Rostand_. C.D. Bales has the same initials as Cyrano.
  
  
• Bales is challenged to tell 20 nose jokes. After he tells 19, he asks "How many's that?", to which he is told "fourteen!". He goes on to tell another six, making 25 in total.
  
  
• At one point in the film a character is talking to Chris about Roxanne's surname being odd and says "It's Kazanski or something like that". Iceman Kazanski was Val Kilmer's character in Top Gun (1986) which also starred Rick Rossovich.
  
  
• When C.D. is challenged to think of 20 better jokes than "big nose", one of them, "you must love the little birdies that you give them this to perch on" is taken directly from the original scene in Cyrano De Bergerac.
  
  
• During the balcony scene, CD speaks to Roxanne of being like Chagall's floating "blue man". The Marc Chagall painting titled "Above the Town" can be seen in CD's house over the fireplace.
  
  
• Steve Martin performed all of his own stunts.
  
  
• Kevin Nealon's feature film debut.
  
  
• In a scene where Roxanne slaps C.D. in the face, Daryl Hannah accidentally hits Steve Martin's prosthetic nose, apparently dislodging it. As Martin reaches to his face, otherwise on cue, the viewer can see him fumble with his nose using his fingertips, rather than more naturally holding his assaulted cheek.
  
  
• In a radio interview, Steve Martin said about his role in Roxanne that it was the first time he felt respected in a film role as opposed to being recognized for his celebrity as a one-time stand-up comedian.
  
  
• In the scene in which C.D. is dropping the second letter into the mail he is clearly holding a copy of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in his left hand.
  
  

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