Sarah Bernhardt
Description
Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; 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 by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She played female and male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", and Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures. She was also an accomplished visual artist, as a painter and particularly as a sculptor.
Books
Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist
Cyrano de Bergerac
New National Theatre, W.H. Rapley, manager, T. Arthur Smith, treasurer. Farewell American tour of Madame Sarah Bernhardt and M. Coquelin, under the direction of Mr. Maurice Grau, managing director of the Maurice Grau Opera Company, "Cyrano de Bergerac," drame en cinq acts et en vers de Edmond Rostand. Scenery painted by Mr. Homer Emons.
From the theatre to the field of honor
New National Theatre, direction: W.H. Rapley, business management W.H. Fowler. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in repertoire. "From the Theatre to the Field of Honor," piece in one act, written by a French officer at the Front.
Death of Cleopatra
New National Theatre, direction: W.H. Rapley, business management W.H. Fowler. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in repertoire. "Death of Cleopatra," piece in one act, Maurice Bernhardt and Henry Cain.
Ma double vie
My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artistry and suspense that leaves no doubt of the charisma for which she was famed in her "double life," both on- and offstage. Yet at the same time as this book very consciously contributes to the crafting of her image, it also illuminates a whole era: not only the world of theater, but also the worlds of women, politics, society, Europe and America, and, indeed, of history making itself.
My double life
When eighteen-year-old Lexi of Morgantown, West Virginia, becomes the body double of a famous pop star, she discovers that the girl she is replacing is actually her half-sister, and that their father is a famous rock star.