Paris exhibit celebrates 'first celebrity' Sarah Bernhardt

Описание: (1 May 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris - 28 April 2023
1. Various exteriors of Petit Palais museum
2. Wide of exhibition
3. Close up of painting by Louise Abbema ‘Sarah and Louise on the lake in the Bois de Boulogne’
4. Various of exhibition of stage dresses
5. Set up shot of Stephanie Cantarutti, curator
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Stephanie Cantarutti, curator:
“In this exhibition we can see many dresses and jewels worn by Sarah Bernhardt on stage but we also insist on the more personal character of the star, we have many personal objects that belonged to her, jewels but also toiletries. And there is a real novelty, the exhibition shows her character as a sculptress since she realized many portraits of her friends but also unusual objects, very poetic, which are these algae moulded on the beach at Belleville that were cast in bronze and are absolutely magnificent."
7. Close up of a child head sculpture by Sarah Bernhardt
8. Mid of a collar and fan wore by Sarah Bernhardt
9. Various of moulded algae casted in Bronze
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Cantarutti, curator:
“Sarah Bernhardt is the first superstar, international superstar, and the exhibition celebrates both the century of her death and also it brings to light different parts of her personality, of the part of her career at the theater but also for movies because she was also a great movie star. And this exhibition focuses also on different aspects of her artistic life such as her circle, with portraitists for instance, but also about her practices of sculpture with many, many sculptures first reunited here for the exhibition.”
11. Self portrait by Sarah Bernhardt as harlequin
12. Various of Cleopatra theater dress
13. Wide of various advertising campaigns with Sarah Bernhardt
14. Tilt up of ‘La Diaphane’ campaign for rice powder cosmetics
15. Tilt up of ‘Lu’ biscuits campaign drawn by Alfons Mucha
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Cantarutti, curator:
“She at her time was really aware of the power of advertising and she was such a big star for her time that she was very recognized in advertisements such as for the rice powder for instance, or for alcohol, or a lot of brands used to use her name and of course her face to advertise their products.”
17. Stage dress for Theodora empress
18. Wide of exhibition
19. Various of portrait by George Clarin

STORYLINE:
The pioneering French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923 — a status she owed not just to acting talent but her modern instinct for self-publicizing and using the press to brand her image.

A century later, a French museum opened an exhibit on the eccentric, scandalous and multihyphenate performer known as “La Divine,” whom many consider the world’s first celebrity.

At the Petit Palais museum in Paris, the public is now discovering the madcap jigsaw puzzle of Gothic stories, costumes, recordings, films, photos, jewels, sculptures, and personal objects for the first time together–-- that made Bernhardt an object of fascination from Berlin to London and New York.

“Sarah Bernhardt was more than a famous actress. She was one of the first celebrities. She was a businesswoman, a fashion icon, a sculptor, theater director, a visionary, a courtesan. She pushed gender boundaries. By self-publicizing, she paved the way for many, including Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo, Madonna, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé,” said Stephanie Cantarutti, curator of the exhibit “Sarah Bernhardt: And the woman created the star.”




















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