The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was the first global celebrity: the first artist to be eclipsed by her image in her own lifetime, and the first to inhabit that image on multiple ...

Bernhardt was unapologetically, and publicly, promiscuous. It is thought her lovers included Victor Hugo—when she was 27 and he 70—Gustave Doré and the Prince of Wales, as well as a number of ...

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 ...

1915, Sarah Bernhardt is the world's first star. Free. Modern. Divine. Eccentric. Visionary... Between legend and fantas | dG1fREhPaHU3WjA2NXM ‘Squatter Hunter’ says ‘no common sense’ in ...

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 ...

Reporting From Paris — Sarah Bernhardt -- a famous French actress -- died March 26, 1923, in Paris. She was 78. She has a star on the Hollywood Star Walk. In 2005, the Los Angeles Times wrote ...

Yiddish World Why the poet Anna Margolin wrote a 1915 column about actress Sarah Bernhardt’s leg Margolin hoped it would help women think more about female courage, self-fulfillment and even ...

The pioneering and scandalous French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923.

Paris exhibit celebrates 'first celebrity' Sarah Bernhardt The pioneering and scandalous French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923 ...

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 ...