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ELEONORA DUSEBOOKS / Nonfiction
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International Herald Tribune
08-27-2003
ELEONORA DUSE A BiographyBy Helen Sheehy.Illustrated. 380 pages. $32.50. Alfred A. Knopf. Reviewed by Mel Gussow* Fourteen years younger than her great rival, the flamboyantly romantic Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse was ''the first modern actor,'' says Helen Sheehy in her new biography. As such, Duse stressed a subtle but profound emotional identification with her characters. Because there is only one extant 30-minute film of ...
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Biography of 'first modern actor' artful, well-researched
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; THE NEW YORK TIMES ELEONORA DUSE: A Biography By Helen Sheehy (Alfred A. Knopf, $32.50) Fourteen years younger than her great rival, the flamboyantly romantic Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse was "the first modern actor," says Helen Sheehy in her new biography. As such, Duse stressed a subtle but
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; EVA LE GALLIENNE A Biography By Helen Sheehy Knopf, 529 pp., illustrated, $37.50 Eva Le Gallienne became a Broadway star in 1921. Even though she was only 22 years old, she knew already she didn't want to act much longer in the commercial theater, and she didn't. Paradoxically, 55 years later Le
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Thespian chic
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; Eva Le Gallienne: A Biography By Helen Sheehy Knopf, 529 pp., $37.50 BY CAROL ANSHAW Read a few biographies and a pattern emerges: the accomplished and celebrated seem much less subject to timidity or false starts than the rest of us. No dead vears in the box factory or ad agency. Rather, these
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BIOGRAPHY OF A GREAT ACTRESS IS A VALUABLE BUT FRUSTRATING BOOK.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; She was alone on stage. She was standing up, then, suddenly, she stopped, swayed a tiny bit, then catapulted backward into a rocking chair, as if her spine had been ripped from her body. The rocking chair moved gently back and forth, her hand drifting across the floor. It was the greatest death
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Eleonora Duse, the original 'doozy'
Chicago Sun-Times
; Eleanora Duse A Biography By Helen Sheehy Knopf. $32.50. Theater remains an ephemeral art, even in the age of film and video. Just watch a live performance, then see it in its recorded form, and you know something precious has invariably been lost in the sea change from stage to electronic medium.
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Obituary: Josephine Hutchinson `It's quite natural for actors to fall in love with the people they work with,' she said
The Independent - London
; ... Bell remained good friends, and in 1930 he allowed her to divorce him on fictional grounds of extreme cruelty, though the Daily News headlined, "Bell divorces actress, Eva Le Gallienne's shadow." Hutchinson moved in to Le Gallienne's apartment and made headlines ...
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The heart of the Mystery: a new biography of Eleonora Duse tells the remarkable life of the first modern actress.(New Books)(Book Review)
American Theatre
; ... lovely at the end of her career as she was when she played Juliet at the age of 14 in Verona. In fact, when Duncan heard the news of Duse's death, the dancer wrote to a friend, Eleonora was the light and inspiration of my art. She was my Madonna, my Beatrice ...
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Eva Le Gallienne, 92, stage actress, producer
Chicago Sun-Times
; Eva Le Gallienne, who for decades held one of the most prominent niches in American theater, has died. The actress, director and producer died at her home in Weston, Conn., Monday at age 92. From her acting debut in 1915 to her last stage appearance in 1982 as the White Queen in a Broadway
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The Power of Eve Le Gallienne
The Washington Post
; The long list of actress-director Eve Le Gallienne's accomplishments noted in her June 6 obituary only begins to capture her single-minded devotion to the theater. It was her belief that people need theater, that it is not an adjunct to life, a frill or an activity to distract the tired
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