Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt was known as the world’s greatest actress. She appeared in one of the earliest sound motion pictures. She spoke on one of Thomas Edison‘s earliest recordings.

Sarah Bernhardt – 1910 – cylinder record manufactured by Thomas A. Edison – Source: UC Santa Barbara Library

Sarah Bernhardt earned a place in motion picture history with her early sound film, Le Duel d’Hamlet, and her silent movies, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Camille, and Queen Elizabeth. Historians credit her with leading the way for other stars to appear in films in an era when the movies were considered beneath the dignity of a respectable performer.

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