Author: Robert Gottlieb
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300168799
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career--redefining the very nature of her art--to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life, to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I and toured America for the ninth time. Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, this is the first English-language biography to appear in decades, tracking the trajectory through which an illegitimate--and scandalous--daughter of a Jewish courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.--From publisher description.
Author: Sarah Bernhardt
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt" by Sarah Bernhardt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Mme. Pierre Berton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Author: Catherine Reef
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 1328557502
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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A tantalizing biography for teens on Sarah Bernhardt, the first international celebrity and one of the greatest actors of all time, who lived a highly unconventional, utterly fascinating life. Illustrated with more than sixty-five photos of Bernhardt on stage, in film, and in real life. Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actor who became a global superstar in the late nineteenth century--the Lady Gaga of her day--and is still considered to be one of the greatest performers of all time. This fast-paced account of her life, filled with provocative detail, brilliantly follows the transformation of a girl of humble origins, born to a courtesan, into a fabulously talented, wealthy, and beloved icon. Not only was her acting trajectory remarkable, but her personal life was filled with jaw-dropping exploits, and she was extravagantly eccentric, living with a series of exotic animals and sleeping in a coffin. She grew to be deeply admired around the world, despite her unabashed and public promiscuity at a time when convention was king; she slept with each of her leading men and proudly raised a son without a husband. A fascinating and fast-paced deep dive into the world of the divine Sarah. Illustrated with more than sixty-five photos of Bernhardt on stage, in film, and in real life.
Author: Mme. Pierre Berton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Author: Arthur Gold
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Author: Mme. Thérèse Meilhan Berton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Sarah Bernhardt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Author: Victoria Duckett
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252039669
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The most famous stage actress of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt enjoyed a surprising renaissance when the 1912 multi-reel film Queen Elizabeth vaulted her to international acclaim. The triumph capped her already lengthy involvement with cinema while enabling the indefatigable actress to reinvent herself in an era of technological and generational change. Placing Bernhardt at the center of the industry's first two decades, Victoria Duckett challenges the perception of her as an anachronism unable to appreciate film's qualities. Instead, cinema's substitution of translated title cards for her melodic French deciphered Bernhardt for Anglo-American audiences. It also allowed the aging actress to appear in the kinds of longer dramas she could no longer physically sustain onstage. As Duckett shows, Bernhardt contributed far more than star quality. Her theatrical practice on film influenced how the young medium changed the visual and performing arts. Her promoting of experimentation, meanwhile, shaped the ways audiences looked at and understood early cinema. A leading-edge reappraisal of a watershed era, Seeing Sarah Bernhardt tells the story of an icon who bridged two centuries--and changed the very act of watching film.
Author: Elizabeth Silverthorne
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438124163
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 137
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A biography of the French actress, Sarah Bernhardt.
