- In John Murrell's MEMOIR, Sarah Bernhardt gets upstaged by a plethora of playwriting gimmicks, including a more enjoyable sidekick.
- JEANNE DORE (1915) was filmed to avoid showing her amputated leg.
- She got her own theater
- She was a cocaine addict
- Visited Sydney in 1891 and brought her pet dogs with her. During her stay, the dogs were quarantined in Sydney Harbour on the small island called Rodd Island
- Lost her right leg
- Hated her film, TOSCA (1908), so much so that she ordered the negative destroyed and it was never released.
- Sometimes Credited As: Henriette-Rosine Bernard, Madame Sarah Bernhardt
- Nickname: la voix d'or, The Divine Sarah (French: La divine Sarah)
- In 1912, became the first great actress of the stage to appear in the new medium of films.
- Godmother of actor Jean Angelo.
- Her great-granddaughter, Terka, married a grandson of Georges Clemenceau.
- Seemed a little worried by thoughts of death. At the age of 15 she bought a coffin in which sometimes she slept. On stage she preferred characters that died at drama's end.
- Was fond of wild animals and held at home a lion and six chameleons. According to some biographies (probably more fanciful than reliable) she asked a surgeon to fasten her a tiger tail but that man replied it was impossible.
Quotes- Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
- Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- "For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."
- "Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant labor, always inspired by the ideal."
- "The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."
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