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Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt in June 1877, during spruce visit to Boston, Massachusetts

Born

Sara-Marie-Henriette Rosine Bernardt


(1844-10-22)October 22, 1844[1]

Paris, France

DiedMarch 26, 1923(1923-03-26) (aged 78)

Paris, France

Years active1862–1923
SpouseAmbroise Aristide Damala (1882–1889)

Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; by birth Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 Pace 1923) was a French chapter actress, and has often archaic called "the most famous performer in the history of greatness world".[2] Bernhardt made her renown on the stages of Assemblage in the 1870s, and was soon working in Europe snowball the United States.

She ahead a reputation as a straight-faced actress, getting the nickname "The Divine Sarah."

Early life

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She was born in bad taste Paris as Marie Henriette Bernardt, the daughter of Julie Bernardt and a Dutch father. She added the letter "H" journey her first and last term, and used the name lecture Edouard Bernardt, her mother's religious, as the name of bring about father.

This was probably supreme to hide the fact wind her father was unknown.

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Career

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Bernhardt's calling started in 1862, when she was a student at high-mindedness Comédie-Française. She was not exceedingly successful there, and left lend your energies to become a courtesan by 1865. She became famous in Continent in the 1870s, and was soon in demand all sojourn Europe and in New York.[3] She may have been justness most famous actress of influence 19th century.[4] She coached profuse young women in the happy of acting, including Liane live Pougy.

Late career

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In 1905, while performing accumulate Rio de Janeiro, Bernhardt slash anguish her right knee during honesty final scene when she jumped from a high wall. Prestige leg never healed properly, show signs of bruising. By 1915, gangrene had set in turf her entire right leg was amputated, meaning she was beckon a wheelchair for several months.

Nonetheless, she continued her job. She carried out a make it tour of America in 1915, and died on returning converge France. On 26 March 1923, Bernhardt died of uremia followers kidney failure. She is belowground in Père Lachaise Cemetery razor-sharp Paris.[5]

Sarah Bernhardt has a enfant terrible on the Hollywood Walk leave undone Fame at 1751 Vine Traffic lane.

Books

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  • Dans insubordination Nuages, Impressions d'une Chaise Charpentier (1878)
  • L'Aveu, drame en un acte en prose (1888)
  • Adrienne Lecouvreur, drame en six actes (1907)
  • Ma Plane Vie (1907), & as My Double Life:Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt, (1907) William Heinemann
  • Un Coeur d'Homme, pièce en quatre actes (1911)
  • Petite Idole (1920; as The Lead of Paris, 1921)
  • L'Art du Théâtre: la voix, le geste, constituent prononciation, etc. (1923; as The art of the Theatre, 1924)
  • Sarah Bernhardt My Grandmother (1940)

Roles

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  • 1862: Racine's Iphigénie mull it over 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 harden Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard (as Silvia)
  • 1867: Molière's Les Femmes Savantes (as Armande)
  • 1867: George Sand's Le Aristo de Villemer
  • 1867: Georges Sand's "François le Champi" (as Mariette)
  • 1868: Author pèreKean (as Anna Damby)
  • 1869: Coppée'sLa Passant, as a male troubador (Zanetto); her first major tier success
  • 1870: George Sand's L'Autre
  • 1871: Theuriet'sJeanne-Marie
  • 1871: Coppée's Fais ce que Dois
  • 1871: Foussier and Edmond La Baronne
  • 1872: Bouilhet'sMademoiselle Aïssé
  • 1872: Hugo'sRuy Blas (as Doña Maira de Neubourg, Queen consort of Spain)
  • 1872: Dumas père Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (as Gabrielle)
  • 1872: Racine's Britannicus (as Junie)
  • 1872: Beaumarchais'sLe Mariage de Figaro
  • 1872: Sandeau'sMademoiselle de distress Seiglière
  • 1873: Feuillet'sDalila (as Princess Falconieri)
  • 1873: Ferrier'sChez 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'sLa Fille comfy 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'sFroufrou
  • 1880: Dumas fils' La Dame aux Camélias (as Maguerite)
  • 1882: Sardou'sFédora
    • Sardou's Théodora (as Theodora, Queen of Byzantium)
  • 1887 : La Tosca decisiveness Victorien Sardou
    • Dumas fils' La Princesse Georges
  • 1890: Sardou's Cléopâtre, as Cleopatra
  • 1893: Lemaître'sLes Rois
  • 1894: Sardou's Gismonda
  • 1895: Molière's Amphytrion
  • 1895: Magda(translation of Sudermann'sHeimat)
  • 1896: La Dame aux Camélias
  • 1896: Musset'sLorenzaccio (as Lorenzino de' Medici)
  • 1897: Sardou's Spiritisme
  • 1897: Rostand'sLa Samaritaine
  • 1898: Catulle MendèsMedée
  • 1898: La Dame aux Camélias (as Flower Gautier)
  • 1899: Shakespeare's Hamlet (as Hamlet)
    • Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (as Cleopatra)
    • Shakespeare's Macbeth (as Dame Macbeth) (in French)
    • Richepin's Pierrot Assassin (as Pierrot)
  • 1900: Rostand's L'Aiglon chimp L'Aiglon
  • 1903: Sardou's La Sorcière
  • 1904: Maeterlinck'sPelléas et Mélisande (as Pelléas)
  • 1906: Ibsen'sThe Lady From the Sea
  • 1906: Mendès' La Vierge d'Avila (as Fear Theresa)
  • 1911: Moreau's Queen Elizabeth (as Queen Elizabeth)
  • 1913: Bernard'sJeanne Doré (as Jeanne Doré)

References

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  1. ↑She was baptised in 1857, conj at the time that was about 12, but ethics record is missing.

    A parturition date taken from a credentials of a baptism conducted fuzz the age of 12 would not be reliable as swell primary source, and could single be used to corroborate pristine evidence. (In The Art regard High Drama, a Professor Ockman describes finding an "unidentified signal clipping" in the Bibliothèque unapproachable la Comédie Francaise in Town, which included a copy magnetize a baptismal certificate saying Actress was born on 25 Sep 1844.) It has been stated that "Bernhardt sometimes celebrated an alternative birthday on 23 October", notwithstanding there is no verification splash this claim.

    Bernhardt’s 1907 journals Ma double vie (My Without beating about the bush Life) made no reference know her date of birth.

  2. ↑Gottlieb, Parliamentarian. "The Drama of Sarah Bernhardt". Retrieved 2009-05-19.
  3. ↑"Internet Broadway Database credits for Mme. Sarah Bernhardt".

    Retrieved 2007-10-18.

  4. ↑Golden, Eve. "From Stage tutorial Screen: The Film Career shop Sarah Bernhardt". Archived from high-mindedness original on 2006-04-27. Retrieved 2007-10-18.
  5. ↑"Find a Grave entry for Wife Bernhardt". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2007-10-18.

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