On the centenary of her death in 1923, the French Jewish actress Sarah Bernhardt is being honored with a new book by film historian Victoria Duckett examining how Bernhardt transcended her humble ...

In 1905, the French-Jewish actress Sarah Bernhardt was performing in Rio de Janeiro, when she badly injured her right knee. Ten years later, in February 1915, her leg was partially amputated. Yet ...

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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 ...

Sarah Bernhardt was the Marilyn or maybe the Madonna of her time. An overwhelming personality on stage and in pictures, both still and moving, she fascinated crowds and sometimes scandalized officials ...

It was, by all accounts, a triumph for Sarah Bernhardt. That wasn’t unusual. Performances by the world’s most revered actress of the day were always declared triumphs. But when The Divine Sarah ...

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 ...

“There are five kinds of actresses,” Mark Twain once wrote. “Bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses—and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” No one was, or ever had been, quite like ...