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 ...

(JNS) Carol Ockman, art history professor emerita at Williams College, wrote her first book proposal in the 1990s, years before she knew she would co-curate an exhibit on the same topic at New York’s ...

Tony Award winner Janet McTeer steps into the slippers of legendary French stage performer Sarah Bernhardt as she shrugs off gender constraints to claim Shakespeare's gloomy prince as her own in ...

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 ...

Janet McTeer and Brittany Bradford in Bernhardt/Hamlet. Photo: Joan Marcus Rebeck clearly wants to free Bernhardt from this barrage of male analysis, to give her the space to speak anew and for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They were pioneers in the business of superstardom more than a century ago. Behind the scenes, legendary actors Sarah Bernhardt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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