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...left his home in the Rue de 1'Exposition after an early lunch. A World War I veteran, he was going to join comrades of the Association des Anciens Combattants who were to lay their traditional Armistice Day wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe...
...Joan of Arc (Sierra Pictures; RKO Radio) gives Ingrid Bergman the biggest role in her career. She almost fills it. If the rest of the movie were up to Miss Bergman, it could be rated very close to excellent. As it is, it rates A for effort...
...story of Joan of Arc has enchanted film makers as it has poets, artists, musicians, dramatists, historians. The first film Joan of Arc was made in 1900 by French Movie Pioneer George Melies. Pathe made two versions (1909 and 1913). Cecil B. DeMille's crack at the subject (191?) was called Joan the Woman, starring Geraldine Farrar. Perhaps the most exciting version was Carl Dreyer's silent La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), starring Mile. Falconetti...
Walter Wanger, 54, who had the courage to invest in Joan and produce it, has "repeatedly gambled on a-little-ahead-of-the-parade movie ideas.- Joan of Arc cost $4,600,000 to film, another $1,000,000 for Technicolor; it may have to gross as much as $9,000,000. A producer who bets that much on a script without sex is taking an awful chance. But Wanger had faith in an idea; and his faith was shared by his partners (Sierra Pictures is owned 40% by Ingrid Bergman, 30% each by Wanger and Director Victor Fleming). Says...
...Sigmund Romberg; book & lyrics by Rowland Leigh; produced by the Messrs. Shubert) gives the effect, with almost none of the enjoyment, of a huge Thanksgiving dinner. It is operetta at its most oppressive. The audience would not have too bad a time if it simply (like Joan of Arc) heard voices; the Sigmund Romberg songs are conventionally melodious and the singing is quite up to snuff. But otherwise the audience has a great deal to endure...