In LA to shoot the fifth series of Big Love, HBO's drama about a polygamous Mormon family, Sevigny snorts as she recalls co-star Jeanne Tripplehorn's reaction to her outfit of the day before.
The story of the Jewish rebellion against Rome, it is informed by the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict and stars Jeanne Moreau.
The producer of a television remake of "A Letter to Three Wives" thought it would be a great marketing ploy to get one of the original stars, Jeanne Crain or Ms. Sothern, to play a cameo role.
(He worked on Rustam Khamdamov's art-house movie "Anna Karamazoff," becoming friends with the film's star, Jeanne Moreau).
As the only surviving sound film of the radically innovative Broadway star Jeanne Eagels, the film is an important piece of theater history, preserving the performance style of a brilliant, eccentric and spectacularly self-destructive actress (who would die of a drug overdose seven months after the film's release).
Though the unbelievable (mostly) true story of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, has seen its fair share of screen adaptations, it came to its larger-than-life climax on screen in 1928 thanks to the heroic efforts of Carl Theodor Dreyer and his star, Renée Jeanne Falconetti.
State Fair (1945) starred Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Dick Haymes, and Vivian Blaine putting across such Rodgers and Hammerstein tunes as the Academy Award-winning "It Might as Well Be Spring" with brio.
Her numbers included "Two Little Girls From Little Rock," one of several duets with Monroe, and the comic lament "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?" Two years later she starred with Jeanne Crain in "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes," a sequel of sorts, set in Paris.
And I would trade all such revelations for that poised encounter, in "Man Without a Star" (1955), when Jeanne Crain, seated politely at a desk, with a ledger open in front of her, inquires of Douglas, "What do you want?" In response, he takes a pen, and scratches the word "You" in rough letters across the page.
