The first Hamlet on film was a woman, Bernhardt herself It was Sarah Bernhardt who arguably first truly rinsed it for its fame-stoking, headline-winning potential. She wasn’t the first woman to ...

A century ago, mourners lined the streets of Paris, watching as black horses pulled flower-laden floats and a coach carried the coffin of Sarah Bernhardt, the woman widely considered the first ...

By Beatrice Loayza Reporting from Paris In the 19th and early 20th century, everyone worshiped at the altar of Sarah Bernhardt. She was a stage actress at a time when the theater was the ...

T he 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 ...

Before Lady GaGa and Marilyn Monroe posed nude for national magazines, and Janet Jackson “accidentally” bared one breast at the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show, Sarah Bernhardt shamelessly ...

SARAH: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, by Robert Gottlieb. Yale; 233 pages; $25. There's a certain kind of French artist haunted by the Promethean spirit of Victor Hugo - a line of flamboyant display ...

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 ...

There aren`t too many theatergoers left who remember seeing ”the Divine Sarah” Bernhardt in performance-she began her last, 18-month American tour in 1916-but there remain many surviving ...

As actress Sarah Bernhardt reveled in her late-19th century fame, her unconventional offstage behavior — from sleeping in a coffin to riding in a hot air balloon — both intrigued and ...

“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 ...