They were pioneers in the business of superstardom more than a century ago. Behind the scenes, legendary actors Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse were also entrepreneurs who ran their own companies ...

Nineteenth-century theater legend Sarah Bernhardt was worshiped in her native France, and later became a global superstar — the ultimate diva of her time. A compelling musical biography, “The Divine ...

Robert Gottlieb’s vigorous biography of Sarah Bernhardt shows the actress in all her workaholic, passionate and unsentimental force. "The trade of a celebrity, pure and simple, had been invented, I ...