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Jean Seberg: Otto Preminger
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Synopsis: After an extensive talent search, producer-director Otto Preminger selected a 17-year-old unknown from Iowa, Jean Seberg, to play Joan of Arc, a role traditionally portrayed by actresses twice to three times Seberg's age. Seberg is cast opposite such venerable pros as Richard Todd (as Dunois), Anton WalbrookRead More
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"That is the Jean that lives in turmoil, in a black hole." Preminger said that some type of self-inflicted injury was inevitable. Had she been smart, he said, Jean would have taken the money and run home "as fast as her two little feet could've carried her." But the lure of fame, as he put it, "held her in bondage. You see, there is no focus to the thing. It is in those that must destroy their lives ..."
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Kerr was the standout attraction in Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse, which co-starred David Niven and Jean Seberg. This film, although somewhat cold, is worth a look for the lush color photography and Kerr's wardrobe by Givenchy.
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That humanism is informed by the star, Jean Seberg, and in large part “Breathless” serves as Godard’s valentine to this lovely actress. Seberg represents a particular kind of American beauty and freshness, but ... was a kind of blank slate that enabled her mentor, Otto Preminger, to cast her as a French girl in both “Saint Joan (1957) and “Bonjour Tristesse” (1958).
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