Word: bernhardt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary law of nature," Adams had said, and in 1877 he and Marian settled close by the White House. (President John Adams was Henry's great-grandfather, John Quincy Adams his grandfather.) Under her 20-tapered chandelier, Marian gathered the famous but never the infamous. Hearing that Sarah Bernhardt, whose private life scandalized the Adamses, was about to embark on a U.S. tour, Marian fired off fair warning to her father in Massachusetts: "See to it that Boston snubs her off the stage." Marian's letters to papa were a Sunday ritual, and in them she re-created...
...stacked 16, she was "discovered" as she sat at a drugstore fountain. Hollywood gave her the big buildup. Renamed Lana, she made movies with the biggest of the box-office giants-Gable, Taylor, Cooper-and nobody, least of all the customers, cared if she was not a second Sarah Bernhardt...
Jane Cronin as the Bridegroom's mother, one of the largest and most important parts in the show, tries too hard to be Sarah Bernhardt. In the process she forgets she is a woman and portraying a woman. Thus she misses the tenderness that must go with the hate that she must feel almost against her will. She captures little of the depth of soul or wisdom from suffering--"We want to hear the things that will hurt us"--that the script would seem to grant her. Richard Galvin as the Bridegroom seems slightly foppish in the part...
...Union men courteously. And when the Confederacy and Reconstruction were done with, Little Rock grew-from 12,000 in 1870 to 26,000 in 1890 and 46,000 in 1910-and became a state-capital leader in luxuries such as electric trolleys and street lights, telephones, and Sarah Bernhardt appearing at the Forest Park Theater in Camille...
With sennets and flourishes, Cinemactress Jayne Mansfield brushed aside objections that she is too, too solidly fleshed for tragedy, announced that she was memorizing Hamlet's soliloquies, would follow the examples of Actresses Siobhan McKenna and Sarah Bernhardt by playing the Prince of Denmark, possibly on television. Proposed costume for Actress Mansfield: black tights, bare bodkin...