The eldest daughter of a mid-19th-century Jewish courtesan – and whose father might have been one of a number of men – Sarah Bernhardt ... in this entertaining biography: we can’t be sure ...

Robert Gottlieb's new biography of Bernhardt is as much an analysis of the historical record and its vacancies as it is of Sarah ... A lot of the book is analyzing the conflicting stories that ...

In “Sarah,” Robert Gottlieb’s sharp, efficient biography ... Bernhardt and her son.”) And in an age of virulent anti-Semitism, she was proudly public about her Jewish roots. (This book ...

Bernhardt’s vastly energetic ... by Robert Gottlieb in his biography Sarah. The book’s trimness, coming after numerous biographies of much wider girth, plus the celebrity’s own memoir ...

Mark Twain once identified five kinds of actresses: "bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses -- and then there is Sarah Bernhardt ... to a terrific book, when the news ...

“Bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses—and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” No one was, or ever had been, quite like her. The French performer was celebrated not only ...

More than 40,000 mourners lined up outside her hotel particulier to sign the condolence book. “Sarah Bernhardt: Et la femme Créa la Star” runs through August 27, 2023, at Paris’s Petit Palais.

There are few traces now of the glory that was Sarah Bernhardt. From her Parisian debut ... The central section of this book reproduces many wonderful photographs of her heyday, in Phèdre ...

In 1915, seven years before her death, Sarah Bernhardt had her right leg, painful and gangrenous from an old injury, chopped off above the knee. When she was offered thousands of dollars for the ...