Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard, 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She also played male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. French poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", while Victor Hugo praised her "golden voice".
Bernhardt made several t...
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Great Actresses of the Past
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Those of Our Land
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Jeanne Doré
As Jeanne Doré
Stars of Yesterday
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The Clairvoyant
As Madame Gainard
Queen Elizabeth
As Queen Elizabeth I
Paris Nineteen Hundred
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Le duel d'Hamlet
As Hamlet
Mothers of France
As Jeanne d'Urbex
The House That Shadows Built
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Camille
As Marguerite Gauthier
Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre
The Century Is Fifty
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
As Adrienne Lecouvreur
It Happened in Paris
As Herself
Le Cinéma de grand-père
As Self (archive footage)
Hamlet. William Shakespeare. Scène du duel jouée par Mme Sarah Bernhardt, M. Pierre Magnier et Mlle Suzanne Seylor
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Edgar Degas Filmed Walking Down a Paris Street
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