They were pioneers in the business of superstardom more than a century ago. Behind the scenes, legendary actors Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse were also entrepreneurs who ran their own companies ...

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 Divine ...

Robert Gottlieb’s vigorous biography of Sarah Bernhardt shows the actress in all her workaholic, passionate and unsentimental force. "The trade of a celebrity, pure and simple, had been invented, I ...

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 ...