Sad but true: Today, few people know the illustrious career of Sarah Bernhardt and personality. History buffs and the film knows that Bernhardt was the first artist to sell his talents to a modern audience, the creation of a path of worship. In other words, it was the first celebrity. Unfortunately, many of us know today whyshe so famous.
Former Simon & Schuster editor Robert Gottlieb parts with the person and character inSarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt. Although this is a biography, a book that reads like a novel Gottlieb, easily digestible anecdotes and stories jacking.
Gottlieb research supports life Bernhardt has been a difficult task. It is considered the most famous person in the world, Bernhardt is a playwright who was the favorite story. Biographer can not see their accounts exact dates, places and even parents. Perhaps, therefore, the first biography in English is God's love by Bernhardt.
His childhood reads like a rewrite of the Miserables. Of 1844, or, as Gottlieb questions: "Is this 1843?" In Paris, Sarah hit several houses as a child in care. Despite a cruel father and mother away, and not all had an extraordinary will to survive, if only for vindictive triumph. At the age of 9, Bernhardt has adopted the motto of life. "Against All Odds" However, it could result in
His career began in the theater Comedie French, but later signed with the famous Odeon 186L. Sarah is constantly compared to celebrate the memory and reputation of Rachel, a classic tragic time.
In 1880 he had made a name for the initiative of Jeanne d'Arc, Camille, and even Hamlet (as the Danish prince himself). Scenes of death was his business, and was honored especially for his melodramatic suicide on stage. Your beautiful voice and delivery benefits multiply sold.
Gottlieb notes that based on personal eccentricities Bernhardt talent, their life, the scene of the most fascinating people. At the height of his career, he was driving with a coffin, Bernhardt, who slept sometimes in his famous private zoo three dogs, a parrot named Bizibouzon, a monkey named Darwin, a cheetah, chameleons seven and a wolf.
Bernhardt also collected men. In a letter to a lover, she writes: "My heart demands more power than anyone can give." His long list of suitors included writers Victor Hugo and Jacques Damal, a player who does not love, intolerant, and was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The actress has not the father of her son, Mauricio revealed. He did it with courage to confess his love for his illegitimate son during his life, but any attempt to hide his status as a single mother.
Sarah Bernhardt was not only the first celebrity, was also the leading cause of celebrities. Its strong heritage, Gottlieb covers in detail, has been his commitment to causes other than acting. She knew how to use his fame to raise awareness of women's rights, civil rights and religious freedom.
Bernhardt was a hospital during the First World War in the trenches working conditions, care for wounded soldiers. For his first trip to the United States, a young woman helped with the birth of the bow, and rescued an elderly woman to dive headlong into the dangerous stairs. Although raised Catholic, Bernhardt was born a Jew, and she has always stood against the anti-Semites of the time. Bernhardt was a question of the Jewish race, not religion.
Despite an amputated leg, for the fitness Barnum offered $ 10,000, continued to act Bernhardt, until the last moments of his life, as we know that the French paparazzi plagued, as they had been tortured. His brilliance, greed, and sexuality on a personality, surpassing even times of Lady Gaga Madonna.
At the time of Gottlieb terminate the account of Bernhardt life, he is so much revered by the woman and her audience was. Gottlieb was the truths of history Bernd Hardt distilled. He is survived by his readers form their own opinion: Bernhardt is especially the diva, actress, or missionary?
Sarah Bernhardt lived his life as a performance. It is logical that his biography follows the movement.
Former Simon & Schuster editor Robert Gottlieb parts with the person and character inSarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt. Although this is a biography, a book that reads like a novel Gottlieb, easily digestible anecdotes and stories jacking.
Gottlieb research supports life Bernhardt has been a difficult task. It is considered the most famous person in the world, Bernhardt is a playwright who was the favorite story. Biographer can not see their accounts exact dates, places and even parents. Perhaps, therefore, the first biography in English is God's love by Bernhardt.
His childhood reads like a rewrite of the Miserables. Of 1844, or, as Gottlieb questions: "Is this 1843?" In Paris, Sarah hit several houses as a child in care. Despite a cruel father and mother away, and not all had an extraordinary will to survive, if only for vindictive triumph. At the age of 9, Bernhardt has adopted the motto of life. "Against All Odds" However, it could result in
His career began in the theater Comedie French, but later signed with the famous Odeon 186L. Sarah is constantly compared to celebrate the memory and reputation of Rachel, a classic tragic time.
In 1880 he had made a name for the initiative of Jeanne d'Arc, Camille, and even Hamlet (as the Danish prince himself). Scenes of death was his business, and was honored especially for his melodramatic suicide on stage. Your beautiful voice and delivery benefits multiply sold.
Gottlieb notes that based on personal eccentricities Bernhardt talent, their life, the scene of the most fascinating people. At the height of his career, he was driving with a coffin, Bernhardt, who slept sometimes in his famous private zoo three dogs, a parrot named Bizibouzon, a monkey named Darwin, a cheetah, chameleons seven and a wolf.
Bernhardt also collected men. In a letter to a lover, she writes: "My heart demands more power than anyone can give." His long list of suitors included writers Victor Hugo and Jacques Damal, a player who does not love, intolerant, and was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The actress has not the father of her son, Mauricio revealed. He did it with courage to confess his love for his illegitimate son during his life, but any attempt to hide his status as a single mother.
Sarah Bernhardt was not only the first celebrity, was also the leading cause of celebrities. Its strong heritage, Gottlieb covers in detail, has been his commitment to causes other than acting. She knew how to use his fame to raise awareness of women's rights, civil rights and religious freedom.
Bernhardt was a hospital during the First World War in the trenches working conditions, care for wounded soldiers. For his first trip to the United States, a young woman helped with the birth of the bow, and rescued an elderly woman to dive headlong into the dangerous stairs. Although raised Catholic, Bernhardt was born a Jew, and she has always stood against the anti-Semites of the time. Bernhardt was a question of the Jewish race, not religion.
Despite an amputated leg, for the fitness Barnum offered $ 10,000, continued to act Bernhardt, until the last moments of his life, as we know that the French paparazzi plagued, as they had been tortured. His brilliance, greed, and sexuality on a personality, surpassing even times of Lady Gaga Madonna.
At the time of Gottlieb terminate the account of Bernhardt life, he is so much revered by the woman and her audience was. Gottlieb was the truths of history Bernd Hardt distilled. He is survived by his readers form their own opinion: Bernhardt is especially the diva, actress, or missionary?
Sarah Bernhardt lived his life as a performance. It is logical that his biography follows the movement.
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