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Ingrid Bergman: Saint Joan
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Ingrid Bergman played the actress Mary Grey who had been assigned the title role in a production of Joan of Arc. Mary Grey arrives for rehearsals on an almost bare stage, where the action of the play takes place, primarily as a series of rehearsals, interspersed with scenes depicting the rise, triumph and fall of the Maid. These are acted against sparse backgrounds without costuming.
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Between motion pictures, Bergman appeared in the stage plays Liliom, Anna Christie, and Joan of Lorraine. Furthermore, during a press conference in Washington, D.C. for the promotion of Joan of Lorraine, she protested against segregation after seeing it first hand at the theater she was acting in. This led to a lot of publicity and some hate mail.
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There is no doubt about the splendor of Ms. Bergman's acting. It fills the theater with unaccustomed radiance.... Since then her gifts have multiplied and prospered, and Ms. Bergman has brought into the theater a rare purity of spirit. Possibly Saint Joan of Arc is an ideal part for her - "clear and clean and honest," as one phrase in the play puts it....
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