Sarah Bernhardt’s Death – Cause and Date

The stage actress Sarah Bernhardt died at the age of 78. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century melodramatic actress of stage and screen. She appeared in plays by Ibsen, Shakespeare, Racine, Moliere, and Scribe, as well as in a 1911 film version of Dumas fils’ Camille.

She was born Rosine Bernhardt in Paris, France. Her father’s identity was unknown, and her stepfather abandoned the family in 1835.

Quotes

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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

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I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

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Oscar Wilde: ‘Do you mind if I smoke?’ Sarah Bernhardt: ‘I don’t care if you burn.’

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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

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To be a good actor… it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.