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...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...
Tart-tongued and tempestuous Actress Glenda Jackson, 39, has played fiery female roles ranging from Charlotte Corday (Marat-Sade) to the D.H Lawrence heroine Gudrun Brangwen (Women in Love). Little wonder that the Academy Award-winning actress has been cast as the spirited Sarah Bernhardt who often demanded that her theatrical fees be paid in gold. "I feel I know her," says Jackson, on the set of Sarah. "She refused to be stifled or live her life to other people's conventions." The Divine Sarah, in fact, liked to take naps in a satin-lined coffin to remind herself...
Looking back over nearly 60 years of combat in the dance world, Including her own company's civil war last year that caused the departure of Dancers Mary Hinkson and Bertram Ross, Martha paraphrased French Tragedienne Sarah Bernhardt: "I failed yesterday, even so I'll still go on today...