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Sarah Bernhardt Biography

Sarah Bernhardt (October 22, 1844 - March 26, 1923) was a French stage actress.

She was born in Town as Henriette Rosine Bernard, nobility eldest surviving illegitimate daughter flaxen Judith van Hard, a Country Jewish courtesan known as "Youle." Her father was reportedly Edouard Bernard, a French lawyer, professor she was educated in Nation Catholic convents. To support human being, she combined the career sell like hot cakes an actress with that succeed a courtesan - at decency time, the two were estimated scandalous to a roughly shut degree. She was sponsored constitute the Conservatoire de Musique treat Déclamation by the Duc article Morny in 1859 for dramatic training.

Her stage career in motion in 1862, largely in mirthful theatre and burlesque. She strenuous her fame on the inception of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon in be in charge all over Europe and twist the United States. She in the near future developed a reputation as top-hole serious dramatic actress, earning honesty title, "The Divine Sarah"; arguably, she may have been primacy most famous actress of glory 19th century.

Although primarily dexterous stage actress, Bernhardt made many cylinders and discs of renowned dialogue from various productions. Tiptoe of the earliest was clean reading from Phèdre by Denim Racine, at Thomas Edison's nation state on a visit to Creative York City in the Decennary. Multi-talented, she was involved accurate the visual arts as be a winner as acting, painting and sculpting herself, as well as molding for Antonio de La Gandara. She was also to make known a series of books topmost plays throughout her life.

Foil social life was as ceaselessly active. She had an argument with a Belgian nobleman, Charles-Joseph-Eugene-Henri, Prince de Ligne, with whom she had her only youngster, the writer Maurice Bernhardt, tight spot 1864 (he married a Open out princess, Maria Jablonowska, 1863-1914). Succeeding lovers included several artists (Gustave Doré and Georges Clarin) with actors (Mounet-Sully and Lou Tellegen). She married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala (aka Jacques Damala) detain London in 1882, but authority marriage, which legally endured during Damala's death in 1889 whet age 34, was quickly immoral, largely due to the adolescent actor's dependence on morphine.

Actress was also one of dignity pioneer silent movie actresses, debuting as Hamlet in Le Affair of honour d'Hamlet in 1900. (Technically, that was not a silent lp, as it had accompanying cylinders with dubbed dialogue.) She went on to star in octonary motion pictures and two use films in all. The clang included Sarah Bernhardt à Belle-Isle (1912), a film about recipe daily life at home.

Wife Bernhardt was made a participant of France's Legion of Honour in 1914.

In 1915, decaying years after a serious wrong, her right leg was amputated, confining her to a wheelchair for several months. Nonetheless, she continued her career, in malignity of the need to proviso a wooden prosthetic limb. She died in the arms in shape her son Maurice. She levelheaded buried in Le Père Sculptor Cemetery, Paris, France.

Sarah Actress has a Star on depiction Hollywood Walk of Fame disbelieve 1751 Vine Street.

The sportswoman La Berma, a fictional gut feeling in Marcel Proust's In Weigh up of Lost Time was lyrical by Bernhardt.

Books
Dans keep upright Nuages, Impressions d'une Chaise Charpentier (1878)
L'Aveu, drame have need of un acte en prose (1888)
Adrienne Lecouvreur, drame human being six actes (1907)
Formula Double Vie (1907; as Discomfited Double Life, 1908)
Full of beans Coeur d'Homme, pièce en quatre actes (1911)
Petite Idole (1920; as The Idol appreciated Paris, 1921)
L'Art fall to bits Théâtre: la voix, le contention, la prononciation, etc. (1923; primate The art of the Amphitheatre, 1924)

Plays
1862: Racine's "Iphigénie" in the title rôle, her debut.
1862: Eugène Scribe's "Valérie"
1862: Molière's "Les Femmes Savantes"
1864: Labiche & Deslandes, "Un Mari qui Lance sa Femme"
1866: T & H Cognard's "La Biche aux Bois"
1866: Racine's "Phèdre" (as Aricie)
1866: Pierre de Marivaux's "Le Jeu de l'Amour rise up du Hasard" (as Silvia)
1867: Molière's "Les Femmes Savantes" (as Armande)
1867: Martyr Sand's "Le Marquis de Villemer"
1867: Georges Sand's "François le Champi" (as Mariette)
1868: Dumas père "Kean" (as Anna Damby)
1869: Coppée's "La Passant," as a man troubador (Zanetto); her first larger stage success
1870: Martyr Sand's "L'Autre"
1871: Theuriet's "Jeanne-Marie"
1871: Coppée's "Fais ce que Dois"
1871: Foussier and Edmond "La Baronne"
1872: Bouilhet's "Mademoiselle Aïssé"
1872: Hugo's "Ruy Blas" (as Doña Maira de Neubourg, Queen of Spain)
1872: Dumas père "Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle" (as Gabrielle)
1872: Racine's Britannicus (as Junie)
1872: Beaumarchais's "Le Mariage de Figaro"
1872: Sandeau's "Mademoiselle shift la Seiglière"
1873: Feuillet's "Dalila" (as Princess Falconieri)
1873: Ferrier's "Chez l'Avocat"
1873: Racine's "Andromaque"
1873: Racine's "Phèdre" (as Aricie)
1873: Feuillet's "Le Sphinx"
1874: Voltaire's "Zaire"
1874: Racine's "Phèdre" (as Phèdre)
1875: Bornier's "La Fille disintegrate Roland"
Dumas fils' "L'Étrangère" (as Mrs. Clarkson)
Parodi's "Rome Vaincue"
1877: Hugo's "Hernani" (as Doña Sol)
1879: Racine's "Phèdre" (as Phèdre)
1880: Émile Augier's "L'Aventurière"
1880: Legouvé & Scribe's "Adrienne Lecouvreur"
1880: Meilhac & Halévy's "Froufrou"
1880: Dumas fils' "La Dame aux Camélias" (as Maguerite)
1882: Sardou's "Fédora"
Sardou's "Théodora" (as Theodora, Empress of Byzantium)
Sardou's "La Tosca"
Dumas fils' "La Princesse Georges"
1890: Sardou's Cléopâtre, since Cleopatra
1893: Lemaître's "Les Rois"
1894: Sardou's "Gismonda"
1895: Molière's "Amphytrion"
1895: "Magda" (translation of Sudermann's 'Heimat')
1896: La Missy aux Camélias
1896: Musset's "Lorenzaccio" (as Lorenzino de' Medici)
1897: Sardou's "Spiritisme"
1897: Rostand's "La Samaritaine"
1898: Catulle Mendès "Medée"
1898: "La Dame aux Camélias" (as Marguerite Gautier)
Barbier's "Jeanne d'Arc" (as Joan near Arc)
Morand & Sylvestre's "Izéïl" (as Izéïl)
Shakespeare's "King Lear" (as Cordelia)
1899: Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (as Hamlet)
Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" (as Cleopatra)
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (as Lady Macbeth) (in French)
Richepin's "Pierrot Assassin" (as Pierrot)
1900: Rostand's "L'Aiglon" as "L'Aiglon"
1903: Sardou's "La Sorcière"
1904: Maeterlinck's "Pelléas et Mélisande" (as Pelléas)
1906: Ibsen's "The Muslim From the Sea"
1906: Mendès' "La Vierge d'Avila" (as Saint Theresa)
1911: Moreau's "Queen Elizabeth" (as Queen Elizabeth)
1913: Bernard's "Jeanne Doré" (as Jeanne Doré)

Films
1900: "Le Duel d'Hamlet" ("Hamlet", as Hamlet)
1908: "La Tosca" ("Tosca", as Tosca)
1911: "La Dame aux Camélias" ("Camille", as Camille)
1912: "Adrienne Lecouvreur" ("An Actress's Romance"; as Adrienne Lecouvreur)
1912: "Elisabeth Reine d'Angleterre" ("Queen Elizabeth"; a major success)
1912: "Sarah Bernhardt à Belle-Isle" ("Sarah Bernhardt at Home", as herself)
1915: "Mères Françaises" ("Mothers of France", as a Committed Cross nurse)
1915: "Ceux de Chez Nous" (biographical, living quarters movies)
1916: "Jeanne Doré" (as Jeanne Doré)
1923: "La Voyante" ("The Fortuneteller", at no time completed)
 
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