Word: skinner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MADAME SARAH by Cornelia Otis Skinner. 356 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...toward the end she was a grotesquely overpainted, raddled old crone. Her memoirs and a dozen biographies contain such a hodgepodge of legend that it is often hard to decide whether Bernhardt was truly a gifted actress or merely a canny show-woman. In this effervescent biography, Cornelia Otis Skinner, herself an actress and writer (Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals), expertly sorts out the conflicting mass of material. Her conclusion is that Bernhardt was both a genius and a lovable loony...