Reporter’s Notebook Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt A centenary exhibition in Paris honors the French actress who invented the concept of the global star.

Reporting From Paris — Sarah Bernhardt -- a famous French actress -- died March 26, 1923, in Paris. She was 78. She has a star on the Hollywood Star Walk. In 2005, the Los Angeles Times wrote ...

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was the first global celebrity: the first artist to be eclipsed by her image in her own lifetime, and the first to inhabit that image on multiple ...

Photo of Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra by Napoléon Sarony (1891). Musée d'Orsay, Paris, ©RMN-Grand Palais/Hervé Lewandowski Some of the artworks in the Paris exhibit “evoke the antisemitism ...

The great Jewish actress Sarah Bernhardt played Shylock and Hamlet, but today, precious little evidence of her artistry remains.

Nineteenth-century theater legend Sarah Bernhardt was worshiped in her native France, and later became a global superstar — the ultimate diva of her time. A compelling musical biography, “The ...

A centenary after her death, the most famous French actress of all time, Sarah Bernhardt—aka “the Divine Sarah”—is back for an encore in a specular, sprawling exhibition that opened at the ...

Why Actress Sarah Bernhardt Was the First Modern Celebrity An exhibition in Paris revisits the life of the 19th-century thespian, who used the press to promote herself and eagerly capitalized on ...

A dress worn by Sarah Bernhardt is displayed during the "Sarah Bernhardt, and the woman created the star" exhibition at the Petit Palais museum in Paris, Friday, April 28, 2023. Inside Paris Petit ...

1915, Sarah Bernhardt is the world's first star. Free. Modern. Divine. Eccentric. Visionary... Between legend and fantas | dG1fREhPaHU3WjA2NXM ‘Squatter Hunter’ says ‘no common sense’ in ...

The friendship with actress Sarah Bernhardt and Alphonse Maria Mucha launched his artistic career, and made her an Art Nouveau icon.

A centenary after her death, the most famous French actress of all time, Sarah Bernhardt – aka “the Divine Sarah” – is back for an encore in a specular, sprawling exhibition that opened at the Petit ...