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unusual facts about Saint Joan


Ellen Geer

Already, in 1963, she had joined the Minnesota Theatre Company for the opening seasons of the original Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, where, among other roles, she played the lead in Guthrie's production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.


Spurgeon Tucker

Uta Hagen as Saint Joan (painting was reproduced on the cover of the large program during her Broadway run, and on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine), 1951

Winifred Lenihan

When "Saint Joan" had its world premiere at the Garrick Theater in New York in 1923, a slim blue-eyed actress of limited experience was chosen for the role of Joan of Orleans.


see also

Church of St Joan of Arc

The Church of Saint Joan of Arc (French: L'église Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc) is a religious building in the city center of Rouen, northern France.

Ewa Fröling

She studied at Sweden's Theatre Academy (Teaterhögskolan) in Malmö and from 1977-88 was an actress at Sweden's national stage Dramaten where Fröling appeared in plays such as Stiftelsen directed by Alf Sjöberg, as Johanna in Bertolt Brecht's Heliga Johanna från slakthusen (Saint Joan of the Stockyards) and in Ingmar Bergman's classic 1984 staging of Shakespeare's King Lear (as Regan).

Winifred Lenihan

Even many years later, theater writers were still praising her performance whenever they mentioned "Saint Joan." Brooks Atkinson wrote in The Times that Miss Lenihan and Katharine Cornell, who played the role later, "left their marks on the part, for both of them had something genuine to give it."