"Joan of Arc"
All tho talkie queens are joa lons of Ingrirl Bergman. Ingrid. tho Swedish girl who won overnight stardom in "intermezzo." is to be the screen "Joan of Are, a role that the top feminine stars have been hankering after ever since Gerakline I'arrar player! it in the silent days. The proposal has solved a mini her of problems. Nliss Bergman needed a .striking characterisation with which to follow up her success in her first Hollywood picture. And David 0. Selnick has been tossiny; and turning uneasily in his bed of nights trying to think lip «* picture sufficiently sensational and spectacular to trend in the footsteps of his "Gone with the Wind." ".loan of Arc" is the answer. The film will not he based on the Shaw play or on any particular dramatic version, but 011 the authentic story of the "Maid of Orleans."
Claudette Colbert's next picture for Paramount is to be "Arise .My Love," a newspaper story about the recent war in Spain.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 10 (Supplement)
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