Joan of Arc is a 1948 American hagiographic epic film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Ingrid Bergman as the eponymous French religious icon and war heroine. It was produced by Walter Wanger and is based on Maxwell Anderson's successful Broadway play Joan of Lorraine, which also starred Bergman, and was adapted for the screen by Anderson himself, in collaboration with Andrew Solt. It is the only film of an Anderson play for which the author wrote the film script (at least partially). It is the last film Fleming directed before his death in 1949. Plot Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians. Cast At Domrémy, Joan's Birthplace in Lorraine, December 1428 Ingrid Bergman as Jeanne d'Arc Selena Royle as Isabelle d'Arc, her mother Robert Barrat as Jacques d'Arc, her father James Lydon as Pierre d'Arc, her younger brother Rand Brooks as Jean d'Arc, her older brother Roman Bohnen as Durand Laxart, her uncle At Vaucouleurs, February 1429 Irene Rich as Catherine le Royer, her friend Nestor Paiva as Henri le Royer, Catherine's husband Richard Derr as Jean de Metz, a knight Ray Teal as Bertrand de Poulengy, a squire David Bond as Jeun Fournier, Cure of Vaucouleurs George Zucco as Constable of Clervaux George Coulouris as Sir Robert de Baudricourt, Governor of Vaucouleurs The Court of Charles VII at Chinon, March 1429 John Emery as Jean, Duke d'Alençon, cousin of Charles Gene Lockhart as Georges de la Trémoille, the Dauphin's chief counselor Nicholas Joy as Regnault de Chartres, Archbishop of Rheims and Chancellor of