JOAN OF ARC

BBC Two, 2.55pm

Ingrid Bergman received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her performance in Victor Fleming’s (Gone with the

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Wind) pseudo-historical epic about the French saint. Fleming’s adaptation of the screenplay from Maxwell Anderson’s Broadway hit Joan of Lorraine is low on action but heavy on dialogue. Some eyebrows were also raised at Bergman playing the role of a 15-yearold while aged 33.

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