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drama queen; A new exhibit explores the dazzling reign of actress Sarah Bernhardt.(Brief Article)
Byline: Jean Nathan
Over the course of a 60-year career, Sarah Bernhardt established herself as the greatest actress of her time, and certainly the first mass-media star. This month, the curtain opens on "Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama," at the Jewish Museum on New York's Upper East Side. Curators Carol Ockman and Kenneth E. Silver have collected some 300 rarely seen objects from her life, as well as paintings and sculptures, both of her and by her.
The daughter of a Jewish courtesan, Bernhardt (1844-1923) was baptized a Catholic, but the press never let her live down her Jewish origins. This did nothing to impede her astonishing trajectory, from her beginnings at the Comedie-Francaise on to international stardom. Her openness to technological advances led to the recording of her famed "golden voice" by Thomas Edison-and to her becoming the first major actress to ...
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Picture from: Archive Photos December 18, 1916 700+ words
Archive Photos 12-18-1916 Sarah Bernhardt Legendary French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt poses languidly onstage in a scene from...the Empire Theater. Called The Divine Sarah, Bernhardt remains one of the most lauded figures...
- A STAR'S LIFE.(Entertainment)(A one-woman play about the groundbreaking French...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) February 9, 2006 700+ words
...Register-Guard Once upon a time, Sarah Bernhardt was the most famous woman in the world...one copy of each picture taken of Sarah Bernhardt on top of each other the pile would...play based on the life of actress Sarah Bernhardt by New York playwright and Eugene...
- Legendary Sarah Bernhardt once saved Lincoln's widow from a death she would...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 26, 1989 700+ words
...ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 6 P.M., EDT, TODAY/ LEGENDARY SARAH BERNHARDT ONCE SAVED LINCOLN'S WIDOW FROM A DEATH SHE WOULD HAVE...June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt once saved Mary Todd Lincoln from a death Bernhardt believed...
- The former maid of Sarah BERNHARDT and concierge of the Maison d'Auguste Comte....
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Henri Cartier-Bresson January 1, 1945 700+ words
...Bresson Magnum Photos 01-01-1945 The former maid of Sarah BERNHARDT and concierge of the Maison d'Auguste Comte. 1945. FRANCE...France Guard Human being Ile de France The former maid of Sarah BERNHARDT and concierge of the Maison d'Auguste Comte. 1945. FRANCE...
- Being Divine: A Biography of Sarah Bernhardt.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 7, 1991 700+ words
BEING DIVINE: A BIOGRAPHY OF SARAH BERNHARDT. By Ruth Brandon. Secker Warburg; 466 pages; 17.99 pounds THERE are great actresses, and there are great stars. Sarah Bernhardt, as Ruth Brandon points out in her introduction, was the first...
- Sarah-Bernhardt, Théâtre
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND January 1, 1996 700+ words
Sarah-Bernhardt, Théâtre, see BERNHARDT .
- Redgraves' outing eventually pays off; "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town" at...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Fanger, Iris May 6, 1998 700+ words
...older image, with wit and a boundless sort of cross-gender imagination that made the piece endearing. The title work, "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town," a series of telegrams from observers of the famous French actress' visit to a provincial town, gave...
- Sarah Bernhardt, the Sculptress
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
