Goddess with a golden voice; A century ago, Sarah Bernhardt was the world's most controversial actress. An exhibition shows she still has the power to shock.(Features)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: February 22, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Rhoda Koenig

She was known as "the Divine Sarah". She was denounced by priests for her plays and by lovers for her morals. She brought the high art of France to the Wild West and South American jungle. She acted in the tragedies of her friends Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas fils, and shared a vaudeville bill with Groucho Marx. She stares at us from all those art-nouveau posters. She turned herself into the first international showbiz celebrity, and her name into...

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