Mark Twain once identified five kinds of actresses: "bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses -- and then there is Sarah Bernhardt." Bernhardt was, indeed, one of a kind. From ...

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt in the role of the queen "Dona Maria de Neubourg" in "Ruy Blas", a play by Victor Hugo, in 1878, at the Comédie-Française. (Photo Credit: AFP) French 19th-century ...

A century ago, mourners lined the streets of Paris, watching as black horses pulled flower-laden floats and a coach carried the coffin of Sarah Bernhardt, the woman widely considered the first modern ...

She was a global superstar in the late 19th Century, but her fame has faded with time. Who was ‘the most famous actress in the world’? Holly Williams finds out. Playing Hamlet is the peak of an ...