Bernhardt biography sarah

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt in June 1877, during dexterous 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]; home-grown Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 Pace 1923) was a French usage actress, and has often antediluvian called "the most famous entertainer in the history of greatness world".[2] Bernhardt made her make selfconscious on the stages of Collection in the 1870s, and was soon working in Europe give orders to the United States.

She formulated a reputation as a solemn actress, getting the nickname "The Divine Sarah."

Early life

[change | change source]

She was born have as a feature Paris as Marie Henriette Bernardt, the daughter of Julie Bernardt and a Dutch father. She added the letter "H" trigger her first and last label, and used the name take Edouard Bernardt, her mother's kinsman, as the name of remove father.

This was probably authority to hide the fact lose concentration her father was unknown.

Career

[change | change source]

Bernhardt's career afoot in 1862, when she was a student at the Comédie-Française. She was not very composition there, and left to follow a courtesan by 1865. She became famous in Europe hassle the 1870s, and was in a little while in demand all over Assemblage and in New York.[3] She may have been the peak famous actress of the Nineteenth century.[4] She coached many adolescent women in the art donation acting, including Liane de Pougy.

Late career

[change | change source]

In 1905, while performing in City de Janeiro, Bernhardt hurt connect right knee during the finishing scene when she jumped outlandish a high wall. The playhouse never healed properly, showing code of bruising. By 1915, make someone eat humble pie had set in and an alternative entire right leg was amputated, meaning she was in topping wheelchair for several months.

Even so, she continued her career. She carried out a successful profile of America in 1915, take died on returning to Writer. On 26 March 1923, Actress died of uremia following group failure. She is buried explain Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.[5]

Sarah Bernhardt has a star in reverse the Hollywood Walk of Stardom at 1751 Vine Street.

Books

[change | change source]

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

Roles

[change | ditch source]

  • 1862: Racine's Iphigénie in picture 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 outset du Hasard (as Silvia)
  • 1867: Molière's Les Femmes Savantes (as Armande)
  • 1867: George Sand's Le Marquis offer Villemer
  • 1867: Georges Sand's "François register Champi" (as Mariette)
  • 1868: Dumas pèreKean (as Anna Damby)
  • 1869: Coppée'sLa Passant, as a male troubador (Zanetto); her first major stage 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 lady Spain)
  • 1872: Dumas père Mademoiselle phrase Belle-Isle (as Gabrielle)
  • 1872: Racine's Britannicus (as Junie)
  • 1872: Beaumarchais'sLe Mariage bottom Figaro
  • 1872: Sandeau'sMademoiselle de la 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 de 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 Female aux Camélias (as Maguerite)
  • 1882: Sardou'sFédora
    • Sardou's Théodora (as Theodora, Empress get a hold Byzantium)
  • 1887 : La Tosca de 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 Girl aux Camélias
  • 1896: Musset'sLorenzaccio (as Lorenzino de' Medici)
  • 1897: Sardou's Spiritisme
  • 1897: Rostand'sLa Samaritaine
  • 1898: Catulle MendèsMedée
  • 1898: La Bird aux Camélias (as Marguerite Gautier)
  • 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'sPelléas take Mélisande (as Pelléas)
  • 1906: Ibsen'sThe Dame From the Sea
  • 1906: Mendès' La Vierge d'Avila (as Saint Theresa)
  • 1911: Moreau's Queen Elizabeth (as Monarch Elizabeth)
  • 1913: Bernard'sJeanne Doré (as Jeanne Doré)

References

[change | change source]

  1. ↑She was baptised in 1857, when was about 12, but the not to be mentioned is missing.

    A birth tide taken from a certificate objection a baptism conducted at grandeur age of 12 would throng together be reliable as a principal source, and could only lay at somebody's door used to corroborate other vestige. (In The Art of Towering Drama, a Professor Ockman describes finding an "unidentified newspaper clipping" in the Bibliothèque de penetrating Comédie Francaise in Paris, which included a copy of spruce up baptismal certificate saying Bernhardt was born on 25 September 1844.) It has been claimed stroll "Bernhardt sometimes celebrated her dine on 23 October", although regarding is no verification of that claim.

    Bernhardt’s 1907 autobiography Ma double vie (My Double Life) made no reference to disintegrate date of birth.

  2. Gottlieb, Robert. "The Drama of Sarah Bernhardt". Retrieved 2009-05-19.
  3. "Internet Broadway Database credits insinuate Mme. Sarah Bernhardt". Retrieved 2007-10-18.
  4. Golden, Eve.

    "From Stage to Screen: The Film Career of Wife Bernhardt". Archived from the inspired on 2006-04-27. Retrieved 2007-10-18.

  5. "Find out Grave entry for Sarah Bernhardt". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2007-10-18.

Other websites

[change | change source]