Joan of Arc
Greatest of all spectacles!
Country
Production
Budget
$4 600 000
Box office
$0
Director
Actors
Ingrid Bergman, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, Ward Bond, Shepperd Strudwick, Gene Lockhart, John Emery, Leif Erickson, Cecil Kellaway, José Ferrer
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Walter Wanger
Camera operator
Joseph A. Valentine
Composer
Artist
Audition
Billy Selwyn
Editing
Frank Sullivan
Whole Team (37)
Whole Team (37)
Short description
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
What's left behind the scenes
- Maxwell Anderson's (1888-1959) play "Joan of Lorraine" (1946), which served as the literary source for the screenplay, is a so-called play-within-a-play, and its plot not only retells the story of Joan of Arc (1412-1431), but also demonstrates the effect this story has on the theatrical troupe, especially on the actress playing the main role. Ingrid Bergman wanted to preserve the structure of the play in the film, but the studio management rejected the idea, stating that the audience would not like it. Therefore, Anderson and Andrew Solt (1916-1990) were tasked with changing the narrative structure – focusing only on scenes with Joan of Arc and removing everything else. The film's title was also changed to the more recognizable "Joan of Arc."
- Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) dreamed of starring in this film and tried for many years to get it finally made.
- Creating chainmail for Joan of Arc presented a problem, as making an exact copy would have been very expensive, the chainmail itself would have been too heavy for the actor, and chainmail was needed for all the actors in the main roles and extras. Costume designer Barbara Karinska (1886-1983) found a solution. She simply knitted tunics onto which ordinary metal washers were then sewn, and the washers were painted silver.
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