(JNS) Carol Ockman, art history professor emerita at Williams College, wrote her first book proposal in the 1990s, years before she knew she would co-curate an exhibit on the same topic at New York’s ...

PARIS (AP) — The pioneering French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world's most famous women by the time of her death in 1923 — a status she owed not just to acting talent but her modern ...

Janet McTeer and Brittany Bradford in Bernhardt/Hamlet. Photo: Joan Marcus Rebeck clearly wants to free Bernhardt from this barrage of male analysis, to give her the space to speak anew and for ...

In Sarah, Robert Gottlieb paints an elegant and engaging portrait worthy of the legendary French actress. The biography separates fact from... Mark Twain once identified five kinds of actresses: "bad ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They were pioneers in the business of superstardom more than a century ago. Behind the scenes, legendary actors Sarah Bernhardt ...

THE FABULOUS LIFE OF SARAH BERNHARDT —Louis Verneuil—Harper ($3.50). People might detest it. Others might not be able to explain its peculiar fascination. But people agreed that the acting of Sarah ...

On the centenary of her death in 1923, the French Jewish actress Sarah Bernhardt is being honored with a new book by film historian Victoria Duckett examining how Bernhardt transcended her humble ...

Tony Award winner Janet McTeer steps into the slippers of legendary French stage performer Sarah Bernhardt as she shrugs off gender constraints to claim Shakespeare's gloomy prince as her own in ...

How many Broadway shows has Sarah Bernhardt been in? Sarah Bernhardt has appeared on Broadway in 18 shows. How many West End shows has Sarah Bernhardt been in? Sarah Bernhardt has not appeared in the ...