SARAH: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, by Robert Gottlieb. Yale; 233 pages; $25. There's a certain kind of French artist haunted by the Promethean spirit of Victor Hugo - a line of flamboyant display you ...
Nineteenth-century theater legend Sarah Bernhardt was worshiped in her native France, and later became a global superstar — the ultimate diva of her time. A compelling musical biography, “The Divine ...
Robert Gottlieb’s vigorous biography of Sarah Bernhardt shows the actress in all her workaholic, passionate and unsentimental force. "The trade of a celebrity, pure and simple, had been invented, I ...
THE FABULOUS LIFE OF SARAH BERNHARDT —Louis Verneuil—Harper ($3.50). People might detest it. Others might not be able to explain its peculiar fascination. But people agreed that the acting of Sarah ...
One summer day, some months before her death, my grandmother, who was then seventy-eight years old, summoned me to her room in the Manor house of Penhoet and said: “Lysiane, you are a writer and some ...
On Christmas Eve in 1894, Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha was checking lithographic prints at the Parisian studio Lemercier when he received an unexpected call from the nearby Théâtre de ...
They were pioneers in the business of superstardom more than a century ago. Behind the scenes, legendary actors Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse were also entrepreneurs who ran their own companies ...
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy ...
She was a global superstar in the late 19th Century, but her fame has faded with time. Who was ‘the most famous actress in the world’? Holly Williams finds out. Playing Hamlet is the peak of an ...
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