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In 'Some Day We'll Laugh: An Autobiography', she says, "In 1902 the family moved to Bar Harbor, Maine. (...) At 9 p.m. on Wednesday, September 17, 1902, I was born at No. 1 Eden St. and Papa immediately dubbed me, 'Maid of Bar Harbor!'"
The child "born in a trunk" of parents who graced the carnival and vaudeville circuits, was christened Esther Worth, but at age 2 she became part of the family act (with her four brothers and her parents) with the billing now extended to "The Ralston Family with Baby Esther, America's Youngest Juliet."
The wholesome but fun-loving teen Esther broke into silent films in several uncredited roles. Her first appearance in a motion picture was in The Deep Purple (1915), filmed at the World Studios, New Jersey. She also appeared in the serial Phantom Fortunes (1916). Afterwards, she appeared with her family in live theatre productions at the smaller venues, eventually crossing the continent and finding themselves in Los Angeles. As early as 1918 she and her brothers began finding extra work at Universal City.
At her peak, she she became one of the industry's highest-paid silent stars in scores of dramas, comedies and westerns, notably opposite Hoot Gibson and Tom Mix. Her more familiar earlier silent roles were as Mrs. Darling in the silent classic Peter Pan (1924), as the Fairy Godmother in A Kiss for Cinderella (1925), and as Mary Jane Wilks in the film version of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1920). She was publicized as "The American Venus" by none other than showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. after appearing as a dazzling beauty queen in the film of the same name (The American Venus (1926)).
Appearing in close to 100 films over a 30-year period, she made several for Paramount and MGM come the advent of sound, including her first talkie The Sawdust Paradise (1928); the title role in The Case of Lena Smith (1929) a "lost" film directed by Josef von Sternberg; Betrayal (1929) starring Emil Jannings and Gary Cooper, and the romantic musical The Prodigal (1931) opposite Metropolitan opera star Lawrence Tibbett.
In England, she appeared opposite Basil Rathbone in After the Ball (1932) and Conrad Veidt in Rome Express (1932). Esther wanted Paramount Studios to up her contract to $100,000 when talkies came in; the company did not agree, and let her go. She went free lance in small productions. After supporting roles in Tin Pan Alley (1940) and San Francisco Docks (1940), and 7th billing in a B film in 1940 (San Francisco Docks (1940)), she retired from the screen at 38.
She earned a fortune from investments but eventually lost it due to the stock market crash of 1929. Forced to find work outside of the world of entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s she appeared on radio shows and TV commercials. In the ensuing years she was employed as a department store salesperson and talent executive.
Esther Ralston was married and divorced three times, and had three children - one from the first marriage, and two from the third.
She was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her film work.- Producer
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Alex Morgan was born on 2 July 1989 in Diamond Bar, California, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Alex & Me (2018), Summer of Gold (2021) and The Kicks (2015). She has been married to Servando Carrasco since 31 December 2014. They have one child.- Actress
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Letitia Dean was born on 14 November 1967 in Wild Hill, near Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for EastEnders (1985), England, My England (1995) and Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993). She was previously married to Jason Pethers.- Micki Duran was born on 21 July 1974 in Diamond Bar, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Clueless (1995), Burlesque (2010) and Orange County (2002).
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Chandler Williams was born on 7 August 1979 in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. He is an actor, known for Public Enemies (2009), Kinsey (2004) and Heights (2005).- Actress
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Jessica Lauren Jarrell is an American Pop- R&B singer/actress/model.
The new music marks a departure from teen pop where Jessica had early success with tracks like the Bieber collab, "Overboard" and "Key to My Heart" (The Back Up Plan Soundtrack). Jessica has made an impact with independent Urban AC releases like "Getting Right" and video releases like "Gravity" and the visually stunning, "Goldblooded" each scoring millions of views on YouTube (see YouTube/JessicaJarrell) and accolades from press outlets including Billboard, Rap Up,Perez Hilton, BET, Playboy.com and others.- Herb Mitchell was born on 18 June 1937 in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), Innerspace (1987) and Gettysburg (1993). He was married to Scarlet Kinney and Janet Ahear. He died on 4 January 2011 in Blue Hill, Maine, USA.
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Rick Copp was two years out of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts when he was tapped at 24 years old to become a staff writer on the enormously popular NBC sitcom The Golden Girls in 1988. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity, especially for a boy from Bar Harbor, Maine, who grew up dreaming of living underneath the famous Hollywood sign, a dream that became a reality soon after his arrival in Los Angeles. He spent the next fifteen years writing for a wide variety of feature films, television series and animated shows, even occasionally acting in some episodes.
In 2001, Rick decided to fulfill another goal and write a mystery novel. He had been playing around with a character named Jarrod Jarvis, a former child star on a hit '80s sitcom called Go to Your Room! who had his very own catch phrase, "Baby, don't even go there!" Jarrod's unbridled curiosity led him to investigate a series of sordid Hollywood murder mysteries in between acting auditions. The first book The Actor's Guide to Murder (Kensington, Nov 2003) was very well received and was followed by two sequels The Actor's Guide to Adultery (Kensington, Nov 2004) and The Actor's Guide to Greed (Kensington, Nov 2005), which was nominated for a LAMBDA Literary Award for Best Mystery. He wrote a stand alone book called Fingerprints & Facelifts (Kensington, July 2007), an homage to his favorite TV series as a child, Charlie's Angels. A crack team of female private investigators known as the LA Dolls, who had a very successful detective business in the late '80s were long retired and living separate lives, but were forced to reunite when someone from their past began targeting their children. Lifetime Television optioned the book for a TV movie and hired Rick to adapt his own novel as a teleplay.
Another childhood obsession of Rick's was collecting comic books and he was able to realize yet another dream by writing a graphic novel Celebrity Zombie Killers (Ape Entertainment, March 2010), best described as "a twisted, hilarious mash-up of MTV's The Hills meets 28 Days Later."
In 2010, when Rick's sister won an award for her cooking column in their hometown's local paper, he saw an opportunity. He writes mysteries. She writes recipes. Combine the two for a new book series. And the Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails Mystery series was born. The brother and sister writing team have collaborated under the pen name Lee Hollis on eleven books to date with three more on the way as well as three holiday anthologies. Rick has also created two more new series as Lee Hollis including the first Desert Flowers Mystery, Poppy Harmon Investigates (Kensington, 2018) and the first Maya and Sandra Mystery, Murder at the PTA (Kensington, 2019).
He is also the co-creator, producer and star of the hit web series Where the Bears Are (2012-2018), which has been a phenomenal online hit over the past seven years with over 40 million views.- Director
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Storm Thorgerson was born on 28 February 1944 in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Pink Floyd: Learning to Fly (1987), Drug-Taking and the Arts (1993) and Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart (1983). He was married to Barbie Antonis. He died on 18 April 2013 in London, England, UK.- Igor Vovkovinskiy was born on 8 September 1982 in Bar, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Bar, Ukraine). He was an actor, known for Hall Pass (2011), The Dr. Oz Show (2009) and Verbal Shenanigans (2014). He died on 20 August 2021 in Rochester, MInnesota, USA.
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John Wirth was born in Diamond Bar, California, USA. He is known for Dark Winds (2022), Nash Bridges (1996) and Remington Steele (1982).- Nelson Rockefeller, the son and grandson of billionaires and a billionaire in his own right when there fewer than a baker's dozen of such creatures, was a major force in national politics for three decades. Rocky bestrode the State of New York like a colossus in the 1960s, serving four terms as governor of the Empire State between 1959 and 1973. Under his helmsman-ship, the size and scope of the state government was vastly expanded, as was the state debt.
Born in Bar Harbor, Maine four days after the Fourth of July in 1908, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the third child and the second son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, a political power-broker as the head of the Senate's Finance Committee. Aldrich battled his fellow patrician, President Theodore Roosevelt, over T.R's political reforms. Ironically, Aldrich's grandson would inherit T.R.'s mantle as head of the progressive wing of the Grand Old Party and would be the last progressive Republican to make a serious bid for the G.O.P.'s presidential nomination.
After graduating from Dartmouth College, the young Rockefeller dabbled in his family's oil business, but it was public service and the arts that were his passion. Working for a Venezuelan subsidiary of his family's Standard Oil of New Jersey Co. piqued his interest in Latin America, and he learned Spanish. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, T.R.'s fourth cousin and another member of the New York-American patricianate, created the position of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs in the Office of Inter-American Affairs for young Rocky after he told the president of his concern over Nazi influence in Latin America.
Roosevelt named Rockefeller the Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, a new position in the State Department, in 1944. He served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco in 1945 at which the UN was founded. Rockefeller was instrumental in persuading the UN to establish its headquarters in New York City, and his father subsequently donated the land on which the UN building was built.
In late 1945, he resigned from the State Department and went back to private business. Five years later, he was tapped by President Harry S. Truman to serve as chairman of the International Development Advisory Board, which was tasked with developing a plan provide technical assistance to foreign governments. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower gave Rockefeller the job of studying governmental reorganization, then in 1953, Ike appointed Rocky to serve as Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, a new Cabinet-level department. Under Ike, he oversaw the expansion of Social Security, a program that would be targeted by right-wing Republicans after Eisenhower left the White House. In 1955, he was appointed Special Assistant to the President for Foreign Affairs.
In 1958, Rocky was elected governor of New York State and proved immensely popular, creating a presidential buzz. The Republican Rockefeller had his hat in the ring for the GOP Presidential nomination in 1960 (when he bowed out early as the political position of Vice President Richard Nixon proved too impregnable), 1964 and 1968 (when once again, Nixon bested him). His best showing was in 1964, when he lost the nod to Barry Goldwater in a bitter contest.
A proponent of Big Government, Rocky was the head of the progressive wing of the Republican Party, when such a thing still existed, and was despised by hard-core right-wingers like Goldwater. After losing the nomination to him and being booed by Goldwater supporters for 16 straight minutes when he took the stage to deliver a speech at the GOP Convention in San Francisco, Rocky refused to campaign for Goldwater in his match-up with President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Big Government liberal in the Rocky mold. Rocky was not alone: many moderate and liberal Republicans, including Michigan Governor George Romney, the father of Mitt Romney, eschewed Goldwater, whom the felt was a dangerous reactionary.
Early on, Rocky supported George Romney, the fair haired boy of the GOP circa 1966, for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination. Subsequently, Romney stumbled badly before the New Hampshire primary and withdrew from the race before the first votes were cast (New Hampshire was won by Richard Nixon) when Rockefeller made it known that he was open to being drafted. Norman Mailer reported in '68 that Rockefeller would have been elected President of the United States as he was well-liked by the common people who, at the time, voted Democratic but were angry with the Democratic Party and Lyndon Johnson due to the Vietnam War, inflation, and race riots.
Rocky's own polls showed that he was more likely to beat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, than was Nixon or Ronald Reagan, then making his first bid for the presidency as the Great White Hope of the Goldwater wing of the G.O.P. However, he was unable to secure his party's nomination, which was roiled then (as it is now) by a hard-core reactionary right. (The Goldwater wing of the party would come back to haunt him eight years later.)
Nixon, who had carefully cultivated G.O.P politicians and the Republican rank-and-file who served as delegates to the convention, won the nomination on the first ballot and eked out a victory over Humphrey that November. Rocky went back to governing New York State and won a fourth term in 1970.
In 1973, Rockefeller resigned as governor of New York three years into his fourth term, but the following year, Gerald Ford tapped him to serve as his Vice President when he assumed the Presidency after the resignation of Richard Nixon. Rockefeller remains only the second man to become vice president without first being elected (Ford being the other), raised to the office by the machinations of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
Ford's nomination of Rockefeller as his Veep was not a popular choice among right-wing Republicans or among liberal Democrats, as his reputation as a progressive had been tarnished by his support of the military-industrial complex and the Vietnam War and by his failure to bring a peaceful conclusion to the 1971 prisoner riot and take-over of Attica State Prison. In the post-Watergate environment, Rockefeller's role as a power broker (Henry Kissinger had been one of his aides) was looked on with suspicion. Rocky along with his brothers, most notably Chase Manhattan Bank CEO David Rockefeller, had long funded think tanks and other organizations that had been instrumental in the creation of the post-WWII, government-academia establishment that had defined the parameters of he Cold War state, including how wars of national liberation were to be resisted and how the welfare state was to be shored up. Some critics accused Rocky of being one of the main architects of a "secret government" that really ruled the United States.
Rockefeller failed to get his finger in the Big Brass Ring of American politics, the presidency, but his nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and on December 19, 1974, he became Vice President of the United States. He would serve two years, one month and one day in the post as his nemesis Barry Goldwater and Ford's nemesis Ronald Reagan vetoed Rocky as Ford's running mate at the 1976 Republican convention, where Reagan nearly upset Ford. For the presidential match-up in November, Ford had Kansas Senator Bob Dole, then considered a rock-rib Republican conservative, foisted upon him, which likely cost him the election. He narrowly lost New York State (and its 41 Electoral College votes) to former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, which gave Carter the presidency.
Ford later admitted it was a mistake to allow Reagan to bully him into kicking Rocky, the avatar of progressive Republicans (now a dead species but once a vibrant part of the Grand Old Party since its founding), off of the ticket. With Rocky on the ticket, the Empire State would likely have swung his way and he would have won a term as president in his own right. Ford remains the only unelected president in U.S. history.
The Rockefeller family's billions had once helped finance the Republican Party and the advancement of the interests of African Americans by endowing the N.A.A.C.P. and institutions of higher learning serving black folk. The Party of Lincoln had been the natural home of African Americans until the Great Depression and F.D.R. started to peel them away from the G.O.P.
L.B.J. and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voters Right Act of 1965 sparked a major realignment of the political parties in America. African Americans in the 1960s were now solidly Democratic and the Solid South, which had once been solidly Democratic, began moving towards the new Republican Party procreated by Goldwater, Reagan and ex-Democrats from the former Confederacy like Strom Thurmond.
The first Republicans voted to Congress since Reconstruction from the Deep South started to appear in the 1960s, starting with John Tower in 1961, who was was elected to the U.S. Senate seat once held by then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson in a special election in 1961. Connecticut transplant George Bush, whose father Prescott Bush was a moderate Republican who represented the Nutmeg State in the U.S. Senate, was elected to the House of Representatives from Texas in 1964, reaping political hay from the backlash against civil rights.
The Republican in the South to make the biggest splash in the 1960s was U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who as the Palmetto State's governor in 1948 broke with Harry Truman over the inclusion of a civil rights plank in the Democratic Party platform (crafted by Hubert H. Humphrey) and ran for president as the head of the "Dixiecrat Party". Thurmond won four Southern states good for 39 votes in the Electoral College. In 1964, he quit the Democratic Party and resigned from the Senate to protest the passage of the Civil Rights Act, which a filibuster by Southern Senators, Democrats all (including Senator Strom, a racist who had fathered a mixed race child with his African American mistress) failed to derail. He subsequently was elected in a special election to his old seat as a Republican.
Goldwater had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Reagan's political career had been bolstered by his support of Goldwater and his opposition to Fair Housing Laws in the state of California. Reagan rode the backlash against civil rights to the governor's mansion in Sacramento and later to the White House. Under Reagan, who had launched his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the lynching of three civil rights workers in 1964, the spirit of the hated Abraham Lincoln was exorcised from the G.O.P. he helped create, enabling Southerners to embrace the Grand Old Party they previously had despised as a symbol of the Union's defeat of the Confederacy and is championing of equal rights for black folk during the hated Reconstruction period.
Shorn of Lincoln and a commitment to civil rights (in 1990, Republican President George H.W. Bush would become the first president in history to veto a civil rights act), the realignment of the Deep South with the Republican Party that had started in the 1960s quickened. The process that had begun with a Democrat from the South (L.B.J.) in the White House was completed by the mid-1990s, ironically, under another Democratic President from a former Confederate state, Bill Clinton. (The next Democrat in the White House would be an African American, Barack Obama.)
By 1976, the Grand Old Party that the Rockefeller family had financed was dying. Rockefeller's party had supported African American suffrage (Ike pushed the Civil Rights Acts of 1958 and 1960 to increase the number of black voters in the Deep South and L.B.J. as Senate Majority Leader got them passed) and had had an equal rights for women plank in the party platform since 1940. (An echo of Teddy Roosevelt's support for women's suffrage in his renegade 1912 Progressive Party presidential bid, the equal rights plank would be torn out of the party platform by Ronald Reagan in 1980.) In the Bicentennial Year of '76, Rockefeller's G.O.P was waning, and a new party more aligned with Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrat Party of 1948 was arising, Phoenix-like from the ashes of Lincoln's G.O.P. In 1976, Nelson Rockefeller was no longer welcome, and by 1980, progressive "Rockefeller Republicans" like U.S. Senator Jacob Javits of New York would begin to fall by he wayside, defeated by the likes of conservative 'Alfonse D'Amato'. By the 1980s, the only Rockefeller in elected office, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia (the son or Rocky's brother John D. Rockefeller III), would be a Democrat.
After a long career in public service, Rocky retired to private life after President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were sworn into office. He was a noted art collector and a patron of the arts and served as a trustee of New York City's the Museum of Modern Art, which was founded by his mother, from 1932 to 1979.
Nelson Rockefeller died of a heart attack in New York City on January 26, 1979. He was 70 years old. - Art Department
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Ryan Kramer was born on 6 September 1983 in Diamond Bar, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Uncle Grandpa (2010), Looney Tunes Cartoons (2019) and Ben 10 (2016).- The girl history would come to know as Joan of Arc was the youngest of 5 children born in Domrémy, Duchy of Bar (which Louis XV annexed in 1766 per the Treaty of Vienna after the passing of his father-in-law Stanislaus Leszczynski, the deposed king of Poland and the last Duc de Bar). She was 13 years when she began to hear voices and saw visions of Saints Catherine, Margaret, and Michael directing her to seek out the Dauphin. Around this time, her father was having a reoccurring dream of Joan leaving home with a group of soldiers -- which at the time meant only one thing. The dream was so vivid, he instructed his sons to kill her if she ever tried to leave home; and if they didn't, he would.
Ironically, it was her father contracting a marriage for Joan with a neighbor's boy which made her decide to accept her mission. When the boy sued for breach of contract, she traveled alone to Toul, the nearest diocese, to defend herself. Fortunately, the law was on her side: a woman could not be forced to marry against her will. In ruling in her favor, the judge called Joan "an extraordinary child". She returned to Toul a year later as Commander of the French Army.
In February 1429, the now-17-year-old used the pretense of traveling to Burey-le-Petit to care for her aunt into persuading her aunt's husband to take her to Vaucouleurs to attempt for a second time to gain an audience with the captain of the garrison, Robert de Baudricourt, whom, after increasing pressure from the townsfolk, agreed to provide her an escort to the Dauphin. The men Baudricourt provided, Jéan de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, would become two of her generals.
What happened when she arrived at Chinon on March 6, 1429, became the stuff of legend. The Dauphin disguised himself as a courtier and had another courtier dressed as the Dauphin, however, she identified the real Dauphin immediately. After an examination by his clerics, the Dauphin furnished Joan with a small force and sent her to Orléans to assist in lifting the Siege, which his army had been contending with since October 1428.
Arriving on April 29th, she proceeded to whip the troops into shape: no more pillaging, profanity, or "camp followers", and each man was to attend Mass at least once a week. Since their humiliating loss at Agincourt (1415), the French had fought from a defensive posture; Joan went on the offensive. In what came to be known as The Audacious Attack, Joan snuck a small group into the town, then ordered them to regroup for an assault on the Siege Post, saving Orléans from capitulation. The commanders regarded her at first as little more than a glorified cheerleader, yet the rank-and-file loved her: she belonged to the same class as they and was willing to take the same risks she asked them to take. Her brothers Jéan and Pierre, sent by their father to bring her home, instead found themselves fighting under her banner.
The lifting of the Siege in just 9 days brought new recruits from all over France, eager to fight for The Maid. She scored victories at Jargeau (June 11-12), Meung-sur-Loire (June 15), Beaugency (June 16-17), and Patay (June 18), the most disastrous English defeat since Baugé (1421). In stark contrast to Agincourt, where the victorious Henry V had French POWs executed, Joan spared the lives of English POWs. At Patay, she came across a wounded English soldier who asked her if she would hear his confession. Comrades fearing her among the dead found Joan cradling the now-dead young man in her arms, weeping uncontrollably. The English did not win another major engagement for the rest of the Hundred Years' War.
Accepting the peaceful surrender of every town along her path, Joan, her army, and their Scottish allies escorted the Dauphin deep into English territory. On July 17th, he was crowned Charles VII at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims. This marked the height of her career, as she was stymied repeatedly by an apathetic Charles, who preferred to negotiate with the English and the Burgundians than capitalize on the momentum she had given him. He gave her just one day to take Paris, an impossible task made worse by his order that the pontoons her general Jéan de Alençon had built be destroyed. The fighting at Porte Saint-Honoré, main entry to Paris from the West, was brutal, even by medieval standards: Joan was wounded twice, and her standard bearer was killed. Alençon had to literally drag her away from the battle as she continued to direct action. Her "failure" to take Paris pummeled her standing at court, as Charles's scheming courtiers hoped. She was forced to abandon the Siege of La Charité (November 24-December 25) after her pleas for supplies and artillery fell on deaf ears. Joan and her family were ennobled on December 29th, officially, in acknowledgment for her service, but, in reality, to get her to go home.
On May 23, 1430, Joan and Pierre were captured by the Burgundians during the Siege of Compiègne, with Joan commanding 400 volunteers. Having ordered a retreat, she ushered her group through Compiègne's city gates, but the gates were closed before she, Pierre, and the rest of the rear guard could enter. Historians are divided as to if the gate were closed to prevent the Burgundians from entering, or if it was an act of treachery by Compiègne's governor. Pierre was released after his ransom was paid, ultimately marrying the daughter of the man who raised it.
Sold to the English after Charles did not pay her ransom, Joan was put on trial, paid for by the Duke of Bedford (regent for his and Charles's nephew, Henry VI). The judges were pro-English French clerics from the University of Paris, led by Bishop Pierre Cauchon (who was forced to flee his seat at Beauvais when Joan took the town). At the time of her capture, Joan was the most-famous person in all Christendom, so Cauchon (hoping to prove that Joan was a fraud) had the proceedings meticulously recorded. In something of an irony, Bedford's wife confirmed Joan's virtue, preventing Cauchon from trying her as a witch. After 15 interrogations in less than a month, followed by a "trial" which rubber-stamped the foregone conclusion, she was convicted of heresy and turned over to secular authorities. Bedford signed her death warrant, and she was burned at the stake on May 30, 1431, at the Vieux-Marché in Rouen before a crowd of 10,000, including 800 English soldiers who escorted her to the venue. One soldier gave her a cross fashioned from twigs and twine as his comrades wept, despite orders from their superiors to show no emotion.
It wasn't until 1450 that Charles ordered an inquiry into the "faults and abuses" committed by the judges whom "brought about her death iniquitously and against right reason, very cruelly". He knew that he owed Joan his throne, and if she was indeed a heretic, that made him a heretic as well. Hence, the inquiry had nothing to do with clearing her name and everything to do with legitimating his rule. Meanwhile, Joan's mother petitioned Pope Nicholas V for redress. Jéan Bréhal, inquisitor-general of France, was charged by the papal legate, Guillaume d'Estouteville, with reviewing the case. Bréhal urged the new pope, Callixtus III, to take up Joan's cause. On July 7, 1456, after a "retrial" at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Joan was declared a martyr, the victim of a political vendetta which violated canon law and cleared of all charges, however, her claims of divinity were not addressed. Callixtus excommunicated the now-deceased Cauchon in 1457.
Her popularity grew over the centuries, yet not everyone was a fan. Shakespeare depicted her as a witch in "Henry VI, Part I". Voltaire mocked her in "The Maid of Oranges". The Revolutionaries who overthrew Louis XVI banned the yearly celebration of the lifting the Siege of Orléans, destroyed her relics, and turned her statues into cannons. It was only after Napoléon declared her a national symbol of France that she was on her way to becoming universally revered. On May 16, 1920, Joan was canonized by Pope Benedict XV. A gold halo was placed over the head of her statue at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris as Parisians, whose ancestors fought Joan at Porte Saint-Honoré, crammed the streets in celebration.
In the years immediately following her death, several women came forward claiming to be Joan; in 1434, Jéan and Pierre recognized one named Claude. For the next 6 years, the brothers and their "sister" traveled from town to town, receiving lavish gifts from Joan's many admirers, all of whom were desperate to believe she had escaped her fate. Then the trio made the mistake of visiting court. Unable to tell Charles the "secret" Joan told him, proving to him she that had been sent by God, Claude confessed to the subterfuge, and begged forgiveness. Jéan's fate is unknown. Pierre continued to serve in the Army. Claude married and had two children.
Clotilde Forgeot d'Arc, who played Joan in the 2022 celebration of the lifting of the Siege of Orléans, claims to be Pierre's descendant. However, this is disputed. Genealogist Michel de Sachy de Fourdrinoy wrote in "Bulletin de L'alliance Française" (October 1973) "there is no longer any known descendants of the brothers of the Maid", confirming scholar François de Bouteiller's findings published in "Revue des Questions Historiques" (1878) that Joan's great-great nephew Charles du Lys (d. 1632) was the "last remaining male of the line". Clotilde's great-great-grandfather, Henri Gaultier, renamed his children "d'Arc" after being granted an Ordonnance Royale by Charles X in 1827.
Joan's birthplace Domrémy was renamed Domrémy-la-Pucelle ("The Maid") in 1578. - Adnan Palangic was born on 4 June 1949 in Bar, Montenegro, Yugoslavia [now Montenegro]. He is an actor, known for Red Dust (1999), Tale (1977) and Ranjenik (1988).
- Gaston Bachelard was born on 27 June 1884 in Bar-sur-Aube, Aube, France. He was a writer, known for Chillida (1978) and Cinq colonnes à la une (1959). He was married to Jeanne Rossi and N. He died on 16 October 1962 in Paris, France.
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Nemanja Becanovic was born on December 17, 1977 in Bar. He graduated from the specialist studies of Film and Television Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje, University of Montenegro. He is the director and editor of the feature film "The Ascent" (2011), which was screened at important regional and European film festivals.- Charles Owen Hobaugh was born on 5 November 1961 in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. He is married to Corinna Lynn Leaman Hobaugh. They have four children.
- Howard Ralston was born on 25 July 1904 in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. He was an actor, known for Pollyanna (1920), The Crimson Challenge (1922) and Short Skirts (1921). He died on 1 June 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Francis Coffinet was born on 15 February 1956 in Bar-sur-Seine, Aube, France. He is an actor and writer, known for District 13: Ultimatum (2009), Three Colors: White (1994) and Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007).
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Arben Ljikovic was born in 1976 in Bar, Yugoslavia. He is an assistant director and director, known for Herz über Kopf (2019), Alles was zählt (2006) and Verbotene Liebe (1995).- Mensur Ajdarpasic was born on 3 September 1997 in Bar, FR Yugoslavia [now Montenegro].
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Jason M. Palmer is a comedy writer/director/producer/performer. He is a former member of the Groundlings Sunday Company and UCB Maude team, Mr. Bird. He writes, produces, and directs the Fox 45 comedy segment on the "Fox NFL Sunday" show, which have starred the likes of Robert Downey Jr., John Michael Higgins, Chris D'Elia, and TJ Miller, to name a few. His sketches have garnered millions of views on the NFL on Fox Facebook page. He is a graduate of LMU's School Of Film and Television.- Actor
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Christopher Liu was born on 23 November 1993 in Diamond Bar, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Real Me (2018), Ignored and Moonstruck (2017).- Art Department
- Additional Crew
- Animation Department
Joann Chang was born on 2 December 1994 in Diamond Bar, California, USA. Joann is known for SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), Middlemost Post (2021) and Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years (2021).