Reporter’s Notebook Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt A centenary exhibition in Paris honors the French actress who invented the concept of the global star.

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 ...

The great Jewish actress Sarah Bernhardt played Shylock and Hamlet, but today, precious little evidence of her artistry remains.

Why Actress Sarah Bernhardt Was the First Modern Celebrity An exhibition in Paris revisits the life of the 19th-century thespian, who used the press to promote herself and eagerly capitalized on ...

19th-century French actress Sarah Bernhardt was a global sensation during her lifetime.

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 ...

A centenary after her death, the most famous French actress of all time, Sarah Bernhardt – aka “the Divine Sarah” – is back for an encore in a specular, sprawling exhibition that opened at the Petit ...

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.

When Bernhardt died in 1923, at the age of 79, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Paris as her coffin was transported to Père Lachaise cemetery.

Nineteenth-century theater legend Sarah Bernhardt was worshiped in her native France, and later became a global superstar — the ultimate diva of her time. A compelling musical biography, “The ...

The friendship with actress Sarah Bernhardt and Alphonse Maria Mucha launched his artistic career, and made her an Art Nouveau icon.

A centenary after her death, the most famous French actress of all time, Sarah Bernhardt—aka “the Divine Sarah”—is back for an encore in a specular, sprawling exhibition that opened at the ...