Word: bernhardt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After burning one recipe, Claiborne said, "Sarah Bernhardt fell flat on her face." Earlier he had said of his Science Center surroundings, "There's no place like home, I'll tell...
Actress Andrea Marcovicci had dreamed of wearing a few of the baubles found in King Tut's tomb, but settled for a necklace once owned by Sarah Bernhardt. She will wear the jewels and an elaborate headdress in her role as Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile, in the Broadway-bound play of the same name. Marcovicci-best known as Woody Allen's girl friend in The Front-admires the strong-willed wife of King Akhenaten. "I like to play women who want something for themselves and will fight for it," says Andrea. To pre pare for her role...
...sense, art nouveau invented female chic in the popular arts. Not since the 16th century mannerists had there been such a plethora of delicately icy women as now appeared on that new form, the advertising poster. Mucha, a Czech émigré who became Sarah Bernhardt's court artist, and followers like Privat Livemont helped change the sexual prototypes of the 19th century before they launched a million psychedelic posters in the late 20th...
...later with storefront nickelodeons. Convinced that the movies' future lay in full-length dramas, Zukor in 1912 split with Loew, who later became one of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and invested $35,000 in Queen Elizabeth, a cranky, French-made potboiler that starred an aging Sarah Bernhardt -and was a smash success. Zukor maneuvered his Famous Players Film Co. through a series of deals to form Paramount, the first film company with its own theater chain, and began turning out scores of movies, beginning with The Count of Monte Cristo in 1913, counting on high-paid stars...
...every guy in Salem except the one she really wants -Doug Williams. Fate has kept Julie from Doug- a torture that regularly throws her into despair and hysteria. For her performance, however, Susan rates nothing but hyperbole. Says Joan Blondell: "I don't know anyone but Sarah Bernhardt who could sustain all that suffering so long...