Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entirely on faith. The lucid, lyrical music of his 30-odd choral works, chamber pieces and ballet scores has already won him two Guggenheim fellowships and the New York Music Critics Circle Award for 1948-49. He had hit on the idea for his opera after seeing the movie Joan of Arc, thought he could supply what the movie had largely left out: Joan's "inner life...
...Triumph of Joan got more than many an opera could hope for in the way of production. It was intimately and imaginatively staged, with the audience sitting around three sides of the performers. Its heroine, Gisela Fischer, a 21-year-old Sarah Lawrence junior, could act as well as sing. Yet Triumph of Joan came off closer to oratorio than opera...
When Katharine Hepburn, Joan Fontaine, Jean Arthur, Merle Oberon and Ingrid Bergman speak their lines on France's movie screens, they talk French as fluently as natives. This is not strange because each of them uses the same native tongue and larynx; tiny, blue-eyed French Actress Paula Dehelly does the talking for all of them...
Last week Paula refused to make her lips pop like Ingrid's-She and the other dubbers had decided to hold their stars' tongues and go on strike for higher pay. "I have only the most grandiose notions of what Bergman got for playing Joan of Arc," said Paula, "but I do know that for being her French voice I got only $148.50." The dubbers' strike leader, Actor Georges Hubert, scoffed at reports that the strike was a Communist attempt to turn off the flow of U.S. pictures to France. "We have only the old-fashioned capitalist...
...Married. Joan Caulfield, 27, blonde cinemactress (Dear Ruth); and Frank Ross, 45, Hollywood producer (A Lady Takes a Chance); in Beverly Hills, Calif...