Whose face was so unforgettable in the title role of The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)?
Falconetti (Marie Falconetti, 1901-46), a French stage actress, starred in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Carl Dreyer.
This was Falconetti’s only film.
The first all-talking movie was not The Jazz Singer (1927), which only featured sound in parts, but The Lights of New York (1928), a Warner Brothers gangster movie. The New York Times called it “seven reels of speech.”
She was born Audrey Hepburn-Ruston near Brussels, Belgium, on May 4, 1929. Her father was an English banker and her mother a Dutch baroness.
According to Mr. Memory, “The Thirty-Nine Steps is an organization of spies, collecting information on behalf of the foreign office of…” At this point, he was shot.
According to Jerry/Daphne (Jack Lemmon), it was Marilyn Monroe as Sugar who moved like “Jell-O on springs, in Some Like It Hot (1959).
Jack Nicholson’s first job in the movies was as an office boy in MGM’s cartoon department.
Arsene Lupin (1932), a detective story set in Paris, was the first movie featuring both John Barry-more and Lionel Barrymore.