Sarah Bernhardt Documentary - Hollywood Walk of Fame
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas fils; Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She also played male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", while Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours around the world, and was one of the first prominent actresses to make sound recordings and to act in motion pictures.
She is also linked with the success of artist Alphonse Mucha in giving him his first notice in Paris. Alphonse Mucha would become one of the most sought-after artists of this time for his Art Nouveau style.
Biography
Early life
Henriette-Rosine Bernard was born at 5 rue de L'École-de-Médicine in the Latin Quarter of Paris on 22 or 23 October 1844. She was the illegitimate daughter of Judith Bernard , a Dutch Jewish courtesan with a wealthy or upper-class clientele. The name of her father is not recorded. According to some sources, he was probably the son of a wealthy merchant from Le Havre. Bernhardt later wrote that her father's family paid for her education, insisted she be baptised as a Catholic, and left a large sum to be paid when she came of age. Her mother travelled frequently, and saw little of her daughter. She placed Bernhardt with a nurse in Brittany, then in a cottage in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.
When Bernhardt was seven, her mother sent her to a boarding school for young ladies in the Paris suburb of Auteuil, paid with funds from her father's family. There, she acted in her first theatrical performance in the play Clothilde, where she held the role of the Queen of the Fairies, and performed her first of many dramatic death scenes. While she was in the boarding school, her mother rose to the top ranks of Parisian courtesans, consorting with politicians, bankers, generals, and writers. Her patrons and friends included Charles de Morny, Duke of Morny, the half-brother of Emperor Napoleon III and President of the French legislature. At the age of 10, with the sponsorship of Morny, Bernhardt was admitted to Grandchamp, an exclusive Augustine convent school near Versailles. At the convent, she performed the part of the Archangel Raphael in the story of Tobias and the Angel. She declared her intention to become a nun, but did not always follow convent rules; she was accused of sacrilege when she arranged a Christian burial, with a procession and ceremony, for her pet lizard. She received her first communion as a Roman Catholic in 1856, and thereafter she was fervently religious. However, she never forgot her Jewish heritage. When asked years later by a reporter if she were a Christian, she replied: "No, I'm a Roman Catholic, and a member of the great Jewish race. I'm waiting until Christians become
This video needs to be livened up. It needs more than the same looping five or six photos and more than a robo-narrator. I was hoping to see clips of extant films, or interviews with those who knew Sarah. I could have read about Sarah Bernhardt in Wikipedia instead. This doesn't get a like from me.
BTW - Please remove those filthy ads posing as comments. They don't belong anywhere on CZcams.
This is literally the Wikipedia article read by a robot.
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Thank you!
The opposite of art is robotic AI narration. The contrast between the subject matter and the presentation renders this unwatchable for me.
Absolutely true
You basically just read her Wikipedia page word for word. Not terribly creative of you.
She can live again by ressurrection in the future. John5.28,29
This documentary would be so much more enjoyable if it was not narrated by a robot but rather by a human being with some inflection and emotion behind it. No live human speaks in a monotone and my ears, for one, do not adjust to this type of narration very well.
Could be so much better.
I really tried. Get a human being 😢
It seems she was entirely dependant on the help of men to make a career. And that even other women encouraged her to go in that direction. Even when she did, she messed it up due to her stubbornness. Her entire public persona was much more about scandalous frivolity than real talent, though she doubtlessly had jt.