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Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1949 | José
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration Color | 1949 | Casey
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1949 | Ingrid
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1949
Best Film Editing | 1949
Best Actress International | 1950 | Ingrid
This film was a dream project of Ingrid Bergman, who had tried for years to have it produced.
Maxwell Anderson's play, "Joan of Lorraine", from which this film was adapted, is a play-within-a-play, and its plot not only relates the story of Joan of Arc but also shows the effect that Joan's story has on an acting company that is performing it, especially the actress playing the leading role. Ingrid Bergman had wanted to retain the play's structure for the film, but the studio thought the idea was uncinematic and would not appeal to moviegoers, so the Joan of Arc scenes were expanded by Anderson and Andrew Solt, and the film's plot was altered to tell only the story of Joan. The title was also changed to the more easily identifiable "Joan of Arc". In contrast to "Joan of Lorraine", in which all the actors played two or more roles, the majority of actors in "Joan of Arc" played only one role. However, quite a bit of Anderson's original stage dialogue was retained for the film.
To promote the film Joan of Arc (1948), the studio placed an eight-story-high figure of her in white plastic armor in New York City's Times Square, at a cost of $75,000.
Ingrid Bergman and Stephen Roberts are the only actors from the play "Joan of Lorraine", on which this film is based, to repeat their roles in the film.
The company that produced this film was not the same Sierra Pictures that had produced silent films. It was an all-new company formed by Walter Wanger, Victor Fleming and Ingrid Bergman. The company produced no more films after this one.
"La Hire: Why are you crying? Joan of Arc: Because they're dead. Horribly dead. And it was I who killed them. La Hire: Killed who? Joan of Arc: All these men. Ours, and the enemy's. La Hire: Huh! Are you crying about the English? Joan of Arc: I have no hatred for the English. I spoke bold and loud so that you would follow me. I thought victory would be beautiful, but it is an ugly, bloody thing. La Hire: Why, there never was a more beautiful victory than this!"
"Joan of Arc: [after seeing a soldier perish in flames during battle] Death by fire is a horrible thing."
