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A celebrated Canadian play is coming to the stage at Manor Park Memorial Hall starting Wednesday. Memoir by John Murrell explores the final days of legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt as she ...

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On , French actress Sarah Bernhardt speaks in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y., on behalf of French-American cooperation in the war effort. Addressing more than 50,000 people gathered around ...

At the end of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt was the grande dame of French theater and Eleonora Duse her Italian counterpart. The two actresses had contrasting strengths. Bernhardt’s acting ...

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A centenary after her death, the most famous French actress of all time, Sarah Bernhardt—aka “the Divine Sarah”—is back for an encore in a specular, sprawling exhibition that opened at the Petit ...

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 Sarah, Robert Gottlieb paints an elegant and engaging portrait worthy of the legendary French actress. The biography separates fact from... Mark Twain once identified five kinds of actresses: "bad ...

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Vogue: The Original Influencer Was French—A Show Dedicated to Sarah Bernhardt Celebrates the World’s First Superstar

The Original Influencer Was French—A Show Dedicated to Sarah Bernhardt Celebrates the World’s First Superstar

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PARIS (AP) — The pioneering French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923 — a status she owed not just to acting talent but her modern ...