Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt
SARAH BERNHARDT d1923. French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries including ; La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas / Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo / Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She played female and male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture" and Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures. She died in Paris aged 78 on March 26th 1923