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18 unusual facts about Sarah Bernhardt


Adam Braver

Second was Divine Sarah (William Morrow, 2004), which fictionalizes actress Sarah Bernhardt's Farewell Tour of America.

Andernos-les-Bains

Sarah Bernhardt, a French actress, is known to have visited Andernos during the First World War.

Anjou, Isère

Sarah Bernhardt visited Anjou in 1887 and stayed at Anjou Chateau at the invitation of Clément and Alice Jourdan.

East Marion, New York

The Orient Point Inn, which opened in 1796, played host to President Grover Cleveland, poet Walt Whitman, orator Daniel Webster, actress Sarah Bernhardt and author James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote "Sea Lions", set in Orient.

Eulalie Jensen

Born in St. Louis, she was selected as one of six extra girls from the 200 applicants responding to a New York newspaper ad inserted by Sarah Bernhardt.

Gold and Fizdale

In the late 1970s, Arthur Gold began to have problems with his hands which made it difficult for him to perform, so the duo began to write biographical works, including "Misia: the Life of Misia Sert" (William Morrow 1981), "The Divine Sarah: a Biography of Sarah Bernhardt" (Knopf 1991).

Greta Nissen

As for her eyes, there was a close affinity in their appearance to those of Sarah Bernhardt.

Harrison Grey Fiske

With the help of his wife, the celebrated actress actress Minnie Maddern, as well as the likes of David Belasco, Sarah Bernhardt and the Shubert family staged a coup on the Theatrical Syndicate, helping to break the stranglehold they had maintained on theater bookings from coast to coast.

John Elitch

Many of John Elitch's friends came to perform at the Elitch Theatre including Eugene O'Neill, Charles Goodyear, and Sarah Bernhardt after his death.

Lucy Webb Hayes

In the Lucky Luke comic book Sarah Bernhardt, which is set in the late 19th-century Wild West, President Rutherford B. Hayes's wife is portrayed as being one of many who strongly disapproves of the titular actress's tour of the United States, given her reputation for loose morality.

Melisende of Tripoli

The French dramatist Edmond Rostand made Melisende the main character in his verse drama La Princesse lointaine, in which she was played by Sarah Bernhardt.

Mikhaylovsky Theatre

Most of the great French actors of the period performed at the theatre: Those appearing included Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy, Rachel Félix, Lucien Guitry and Sarah Bernhardt, as well as singers such as Hortense Schneider.

Miller Symphony Hall

Throughout its history, Symphony Hall has been host to a wide variety of musical and theatrical performances, including Plácido Domingo, Phyllis Curtin, Rudolf Serkin, John Corigliano, Carol Channing, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Sarah Bernhardt, John Barrymore, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman and the Marx Brothers.

Riley Center

Sometimes, though, big names would perform; among them were Sarah Bernhardt in "La Tosca" and Henrik Ibsen in "Ghosts".

Sarah Bernhardt

Bernhardt also participated in scandalous productions such as John Wesley De Kay's "Judas."

Scarborough Country Day School

Other notable appearances at the theater included Charles Coburn, Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernhardt and H. G. Wells.

Sioux City Municipal Auditorium

During its heyday, Sarah Bernhardt, "the most famous actress the world has ever known", and Edwin Booth, the greatest Hamlet of the 19th Century, each played the Peavey.

Stanisław Julian Ostroróg

Stanisław Julian Ostroróg (1830 – 1890) was an early professional portrait photographer who created photogravures of many famous contemporaries including Victor Hugo and Sarah Bernhardt.


Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

The theatre has also seen many international artists including Franz Liszt, Sarah Bernhardt, Franz Lehár, Richard Strauss, Gerard Philipe, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Jean-Louis Barrault, Peter Brook, Mario del Monaco, José Carreras.

Daniël Cornelis Boonzaier

This collection was not of much artistic merit, but was historically of great interest, since it included personalities such as Paul Kruger, Piet Joubert, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola, Alphonse Daudet and Pierre Loti.

Ella Leya

Her new CD, "Secret Lives of Women," -- celebrates six of history’s most famous and infamous femme fatales: Princess Diana * Mata Hari * Cleopatra * Anne Boleyn * Sappho * Sarah Bernhardt.

Giuseppe Primoli

He befriended writers and artists both in Italy and France, and was host to Guy de Maupassant, Paul Bourget, Alexandre Dumas fils, Sarah Bernhardt and others in Palazzo Primoli in Rome.

Mary Maurice

She, Russell Bassett, Sarah Bernhardt, W. Chrystie Miller, Ruby Lafayette, Kate Meek(b. 1838), the veteran character actor Matt B. Snyder and Harold Lloyd regular Anna Townsend were the eight oldest people working in film during the 1910s.

New Theatre, Cardiff

The artists that have performed on stage at the New Theatre have included Sarah Bernhardt, Anna Pavlova, Laurel and Hardy, Tom Jones, Tommy Cooper and Shirley Bassey.

Philippe Jullian

Other books include Montmartre (1977) and Les Orientalistes (1977), works of art history; and biographies of Edward VII (1962), Wilde (1967), Gabriele D’Annunzio (1971), Jean Lorrain (1974), Violet Trefusis (1976), and Sarah Bernhardt.

Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch

It was there he met and befriended French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, pioneer of modern dance Loïe Fuller, French poet, novelist and noted orientalist Judith Gautier, Suzanne Meyer-Zundel, Austrian composer Hugo Wolf, painter and illustrator Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and founder of the Ballets Russes Sergei Diaghilev.

Shakespeare garden

Jars planted with ivy and flowers were sent by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Rabindranath Tagore— as the "Shakespeare of India"— and Sarah Bernhardt.

Understatement

The well-known Victorian critique of Cleopatra's behaviour as exemplified in Sarah Bernhardt's performance in Antony and Cleopatra: "How different, how very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen!".