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Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; [note 1] born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) 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 Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca ...
May 15, 2023 · May 15, 2023. Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra in 1891 © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski. A century ago, mourners lined the streets of Paris, watching as black horses pulled ...
Sep 25, 2018 · Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra 1890. In 1895, when Bernhardt was 51 and Duse was 37, they each starred in different productions of the same play “Magda” in London theaters that were across the street from one another.
Jun 11, 2023 · Sarah Bernhardt appearing in Cleopatra, 1891. Photograph: Napoléon Sarony/Musée d'Orsay/RMN-Grand Palais. Lara Marlowe. Sun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00. She was the most famous actor of the late 19th...
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Mar 24, 2024 · Napoleon Sarony, Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, 1891, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA, USA. Sarah Bernhardt was born in France in 1844, the illegitimate daughter of a Parisian courtesan. Henriette-Rosine Bernard, as she was baptized, was destined to lead an unusual life.
Born Henriette-Rosine Bernard to a Jewish courtesan of Dutch Jewish background, Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) was raised in a pension and educated in a convent school near Versailles. She initially wanted to become a nun but at the age of sixteen was persuaded by her mother’s lover to become an actor.
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Jun 29, 2023 · Alphonse Mucha’s posters made her synonymous with Art Nouveau. Marcel Proust put her in Remembrance of Things Past as La Berma, the actor famed, like Bernhardt, for her “voice of gold” and for...
