Descrizione

First edition, third printing, same year as the first. With sixteen illustrations, including several photographs of Ms. Bernhardt in various character costumes. 8vo, publisher's original dark blue cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered and trimmed in gilt and featuring cameo silhouette in blind, colourful endpapers. 361pp. A very fine copy, unusually bright and fresh.

Edizione: an early celebrity biography of one of the greatest actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. french state actress sarah bernhardt was one of the most famous women of her time. rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", and hugo praised her "golden voice". she made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and to cross over to working in motion pictures.<br> material for this book was supplied by the wife of actor pierre berton, her husband had at one time been been a professional mentor to bernhardt as well as being her lover.