Word: bernhardt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exactly 100 years ago, Sarah Bernhardt, legendary mistress of melodrama, arrived in America demanding to see the Indians. "She was very disappointed, but she fell in love with the country," says Actress Lilli Palmer, who is preparing to return to Broadway this winter, for the first time in a quarter-century, in the title role of Ruth Wolf's Sarah in America. "I hadn't opened a script for 26 years," says Palmer, now a successful novelist (The Red Raven), living in Switzerland. "I wanted a clean break after my divorce [from Actor Rex Harrison], and I thought...
...take their subject with full scholarly weight. Instead, they have produced an alluring (any sense of the word will do) portrait of how creative people live, how the social world of the arts functions. Creating Vuillard-like interiors that Vuillard could not wait to paint, making a cult of Bernhardt, sailing on a pilgrimage to Norway to meet Ibsen - through myriad details a creative world comes alive...