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Sarah Bernhardt is a Actor and Scriptwriter French born on 23 october 1844 at Paris (France)

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt
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Birth name Sara Marie Henriette Bernhardt
Nationality France
Birth 23 october 1844 at Paris (France)
Death 26 march 1923 (at 78 years) at Paris (France)
Awards Officier de la Légion d'honneur, Legion of Honour

Sarah Bernhardt ([sa.ʁa bɛʁ.nɑʁt]; c. 22/23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage and early film actress. She was referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known", and is regarded as one of the finest actors all time. Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, at the beginning of the Belle Epoque period, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas. She developed a reputation as a sublime dramatic actress, earning the nickname "The Divine Sarah".

Biography

Bernhardt had an affair with a Belgian nobleman, Charles-Joseph Eugène Henri Georges Lamoral de Ligne (1837–1914), son of Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne, with whom she bore her only child, Maurice Bernhardt (1864–1928). Maurice did not become an actor but worked for most of his life as a manager and agent for various theaters and performers, frequently managing his mother's career in her later years, but rarely with great success. Maurice and his family were usually financially dependent, in full or in part, on his mother until her death. Maurice married a Polish princess, Maria Jablonowska (see Jablonowski), with whom he had two daughters, Simone (who married Edgar Gross, son of a wealthy Philadelphia soap manufacturer) and Lysiana (who married the playwright Louis Verneuil ).

Bernhardt's close friends included several artists, most notably Gustave Doré and Georges Clairin, and actors Mounet-Sully and Lou Tellegen, as well as the famous French author Victor Hugo. Alphonse Mucha based several of his iconic Art Nouveau works on her. Her friendship with Louise Abbéma (1853–1927), a French impressionist painter, some nine years her junior, was so close and passionate that the two women were rumored to be lovers. In 1990, a painting by Abbéma, depicting the two on a boat ride on the lake in the bois de Boulogne, was donated to the Comédie-Française. The accompanying letter stated that the painting was "Peint par Louise Abbéma, le jour anniversaire de leur liaison amoureuse" (loosely translated: "Painted by Louise Abbéma on the anniversary of their love affair").

Bernhardt also expressed strong interest in inventor Nikola Tesla, only to be dismissed as a distraction to his work.

She later married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala (known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala) in London in 1882, but the marriage, which legally endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, quickly collapsed, largely due to Damala's dependence on morphine. During the later years of this marriage, Bernhardt was said to have been involved in an affair with the future King Edward VII while he was still the Prince of Wales.

Bernhardt is said to have once stated, "Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist." She had been baptised a Roman Catholic, and accepted the last rites shortly before her death, but she considered herself irreligious and strongly identified as Jewish.

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Filmography of Sarah Bernhardt (14 films)

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Actress

Who Am I
Who Am I (2014)
, 1h45
Directed by Baran bo Odar
Origin German
Genres Thriller
Themes Films about computing, Sécurité informatique
Actors Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Trine Dyrholm, Hannah Herzsprung, Stephan Kampwirth
Roles Maries friend (rumored)
Rating75% 3.750923.750923.750923.750923.75092
Benjamin Engel, un pirate informatique de Berlin, est assis dans une salle d'interrogatoire. L’officier en charge dit à Hanne Lindberg, chef de la division Cyber d’Europol, que Benjamin avait demandé à subir l’interrogatoire. Benjamin affirme avoir des informations sur FRI3NDS, un groupe de pirate informatique notoire de quatre membres connecté à la cyber-mafia russe, et sur MRX, une figure célèbre sur le Darknet. II réclame l'attention de Hanne avant de dévoiler ses informations.
The Man in the Silk Hat
Directed by Maud Linder
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Max Linder, Maud Linder, Sarah Bernhardt, Coquelin aîné
Rating72% 3.600493.600493.600493.600493.60049
La fille de Max Linder retrace sa vie et son oeuvre au cours de ce film.
Paris Nineteen Hundred, 1h22
Directed by Nicole Védrès
Origin France
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about cities
Actors Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley, Mistinguett, Sarah Bernhardt, René Alexandre, Maurice Chevalier
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating69% 3.4900453.4900453.4900453.4900453.490045
Le documentaire retrace la vie à Paris entre 1900 et 1914. Ce film a utilisé de vrais documents d'époque, et des extraits de plus de sept cents films d'actualités, de reportages, mais aussi des séquences privées. Le montage et le texte qui accompagne les images ont été appréciés par la critique : ce film est devenu une référence.
The Clairvoyant
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Sarah Bernhardt, Georges Melchior, Harry Baur, Lili Damita, Mary Marquet, Jean-François Martial
Roles Madame Gainard
Rating61% 3.0743353.0743353.0743353.0743353.074335
Jean Detaille est le fils d'un homme politique qui le trouve trop familier avec sa belle-mère. Son père le jette à la rue à la suite d'une méprise causée par son arrivée inopinée dans la pièce, alors que le jeune homme se penchait pour tourner la page d'une partition pendant que sa belle-mère jouait du piano. Abasourdi, Jean se fait attaquer dans la rue. André Reynaud, qui est peintre, le sauve et le recueille chez lui. Dans le même immeuble réside une vieille voyante, Madame Gainard, surnommée « la sorcière ». La belle-mère de Jean, dans l'espoir de le retrouver, consulte la vieille femme qui résoudra finalement les problèmes de tous les personnages : Jean épouse sa petite amie Suzanne qui se trouve être la fille de Madame Gainard, et le père règle également ses problèmes politiques.
Those of Our Land
Directed by Sacha Guitry
Genres Documentary
Actors André Antoine, Sarah Bernhardt, Claude Renoir, Jean Renoir
Roles Self
Rating75% 3.767063.767063.767063.767063.76706
« Je rêvais d'une encyclopédie nouvelle... ». Sacha Guitry a réuni, « selon ses goûts » les plus grandes personnalités de son temps. Il les filme « dans leurs attitudes les plus familières, c'est-à-dire au travail, chaque fois que cela fut possible ». On y voit André Antoine, Sarah Bernhardt, Edgar Degas, Henri Desfontaines, Jane Faber, Anatole France, Lucien Guitry, Octave Mirbeau, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir avec à ses côtés son jeune fils Claude Renoir, Henri-Robert, Auguste Rodin, Edmond Rostand, Camille Saint-Saëns. La version muette de 1915 durait 22 minutes. Elle était destinée à être projetée accompagnée d'une « causerie familiale faite par l'auteur, avec le concours de Charlotte Lysès ». En 1939, Guitry en fit une version sonorisée, avec commentaire, dans laquelle il ajouta les plans de son père Lucien Guitry qui ne figuraient pas dans la version de 1915. La version finale remaniée, en 1952, dure 44 minutes, avec des plans de Guitry dans son bureau, qui présente et qui commente, tournés par Frédéric Rossif.
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Directed by Henri Desfontaines, Louis Gasnier, Louis Mercanton
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sarah Bernhardt, Max Maxudian, Henri Desfontaines, Lou Tellegen
Roles Adrienne Lecouvreur
Rating62% 3.127513.127513.127513.127513.12751
Les amours tragiques d'Adrienne Lecouvreur, célèbre comédienne du XVIIIe siècle, avec Maurice de Saxe.
Hamlet, 2minutes
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Sarah Bernhardt, Pierre Magnier
Roles Hamlet
Rating53% 2.6720252.6720252.6720252.6720252.672025
Le film se compose uniquement d'un combat de sabre. Sarah Bernhardt joue Hamlet (rôle de l'autre sexe), et Pierre Magnier est son compatriote duelliste, Laërte. Quelques passants, en robe Renaissance, sont témoin de la scéne.

Scriptwriter

Adrienne Lecouvreur
Directed by Henri Desfontaines, Louis Gasnier, Louis Mercanton
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sarah Bernhardt, Max Maxudian, Henri Desfontaines, Lou Tellegen
Roles Writer
Rating62% 3.127513.127513.127513.127513.12751
Les amours tragiques d'Adrienne Lecouvreur, célèbre comédienne du XVIIIe siècle, avec Maurice de Saxe.