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MAN: When Jean was 17, director Otto Preminger
cast her to play Joan of Arc. The dream role
quickly became a nightmare when flames got out of control
during the climactic burning scene. For an awful moment, it seemed
that she might really burn to death. (SCREAMS) Firemen soon got the flames
under control, but not before Jean
had suffered some bad burns. She later said the emotional toll
of working with Preminger had left her with scars
on more than her body
cast her to play Joan of Arc. The dream role
quickly became a nightmare when flames got out of control
during the climactic burning scene. For an awful moment, it seemed
that she might really burn to death. (SCREAMS) Firemen soon got the flames
under control, but not before Jean
had suffered some bad burns. She later said the emotional toll
of working with Preminger had left her with scars
on more than her body
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MAN: When Jean was 17,
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director Otto Preminger
cast her to play Joan of Arc.
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The dream role
quickly became a nightmare
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when flames got out of control
during the climactic burning scene.
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For an awful moment, it seemed
that she might really burn to death.
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(SCREAMS)
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Firemen soon got the flames
under control,
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but not before Jean
had suffered some bad burns.
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She later said the emotional toll
of working with Preminger
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had left her with scars
on more than her body.
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Movie Summary
Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
