Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Born. To Joan Fontaine, 31, cinemactress (Rebecca, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands), and second husband William Dozier, 40, Hollywood executive: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Deborah Leslie. Weight...
...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...
This latest version tells the story of Joan from start to finish-from the time she heard her heavenly voices, as a farm girl at Domremy, to her anguished death at the stake. At times the meticulous history lesson dulls the drama. The storming of Orleans is supposedly as historically correct as research could make it, down to the last split skull and link of armor; but on film it adds up to noisy and not altogether convincing movie battle. Once the picture loses sight of the fact that it is Joan's personal story, she becomes a lifeless...
...vote favored more conservative colors and styles with the exception of a red faille bolero and skirt Dior original in the cocktail dresses division. Modeling the winning combinations were Mary Frances Blakeslee '52; Susan Kunstadter, Sargent; Joan Wilson, Sargent; Peggy Crawford, Simmons; Jane Hauser, Boston University; and Joyce Dana, Tufts...