Being Divine: Biography of Sarah Bernhardt

by RuthBrandon (Author), RuthBrandon (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.24

  The most celebrated actress of her age, Sarah Bernhardt - La Divine - achieved a remarkable degree of fame in an era before film and television. In a career that spanned 60 years she packed theatres all over the world, and well into her old age. Her beautiful voice, extraordinary seductiveness - both on and off the stage - and enormous energy earned her the adulation of countless admirers. Aspects of her life were reported in obsessive detail, from her whim to sculpting in white silk pyjamas and having a tiger's tail grafted to her spine, to her ever-changing lovers and sleeping in a coffin. This account of Bernhardt's public and private life is by an author whose previous books include three on the 19th century, Singer and the Sewing Machine , The Dollar Princesses and The Spiritualists .