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Roles Played By Sarah Bernhardt
This is a list of the notable roles played by the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, including both stage roles and early motion pictures, with the year of the first performance. Roles first performed by Bernhardt are noted as premieres. Theatrical roles Filmography * 1900: ''Hamlet (1900 film), Le Duel d'Hamlet'' (''Hamlet'', as Hamlet) An excerpt from the play, featuring Bernhardt in a duel to the death with Laertes (Hamlet), Laertes. * 1908: ''La Tosca'' (''Tosca'', as Tosca) A one-reel condensation of the play by the same name by Victorien Sardou. * 1911: ''La Dame aux Camélias'' (''Lady of the Camelias'' – ''Camille'', in the U.S. release, as Camille) A two-reel condensation of the play by the same name, and co-starring Lou Tellegen. * 1912: ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' (''An Actress's Romance''; as Adrienne Lecouvreur) A two-reel condensation of the play by the same name. Co-starring Lou Tellegen. * 1912: ''Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, Les Amours d'Elisabeth, Reine d'Angl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Théaulon
Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume-Marguerite Théaulon de Lambert (14 August 1787, Aigues-Mortes – 16 November 1841) was a French playwright. A customs inspector, then an inspector of military hospitals, he composed an ''Ode'' on the birth of the King of Rome which brought him thanks from Napoleon himself. In 1814 he sang for the Bourbons and put on his first play, ''Les Clefs de Paris, ou le Dessert d’Henri IV'' (The Keys of Paris, or the Deservings of Henry IV), in their honour. In 1815, he composed and organised the posting of proclamations in honour of Louis XVIII. He collaborated on the royalist journals ''Le Nain rose'', ''La Foudre'', ''L’Apollon''. Selected works Above all during the Bourbon restoration, he wrote and put on a large number (sometimes alone, sometimes with collaborators), 250 according to one account. Written extremely quickly, most of them are only sketches, whose style often leaves something to be desired but which do not lack wit and beauty. He wrote tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phèdre
''Phèdre'' (; originally ''Phèdre et Hippolyte'') is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. Composition and premiere With ''Phèdre'', Racine chose once more a subject from Greek mythology, already treated by Greek and Roman tragic poets, notably by Euripides in '' Hippolytus'' and Seneca in ''Phaedra''. As a result of an intrigue by the Duchess of Bouillon and other friends of the aging Pierre Corneille, the play was not a success at its première on 1 January 1677 at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, home of the royal troupe of actors in Paris. Indeed, a rival group staged a play by the now forgotten playwright Nicolas Pradon on an almost identical theme. After ''Phèdre'', Racine ceased writing plays on secular themes and devoted himself to the service of religion and the king until 1689, when he was commissioned to write ''Esther'' by Madame de Maintenon, the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odéon-Théâtre De L'Europe
The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe ( en, European Music Hall) (formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon ( en, Music Hall)) is one of France's six national theatres. It is located at 2 rue Corneille in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden and the Luxembourg Palace, which houses the Senate. First theatre The original building, the Salle du Faubourg Saint-Germain, was constructed for the Théâtre Français between 1779 and 1782 to a Neoclassical design by Charles De Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre. The site was in the garden of the former Hôtel de Condé. The new theatre was inaugurated by Marie-Antoinette on April 9, 1782. It was there that Beaumarchais' play ''The Marriage of Figaro'' was premiered two years later. On April 27, 1791, during the Revolution, the company split. The players sympathetic to the crown remained in the theatre in the Faubourg Saint-Germain. They were arrested and incarcerated on the night of September 3, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre De Marivaux
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French playwright and novelist. He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris. His most important works are '' Le Triomphe de l'amour'', ''Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard'' and ''Les Fausses Confidences''. He also published a number of essays and two important but unfinished novels, '' La Vie de Marianne'' and ''Le Paysan parvenu''. Life His father was a Norman financier whose name from birth was Carlet, but who assumed the surname of Chamblain, and then that of Marivaux. He brought up his family in Limoges and Riom, in the province of Auvergne, where he directed the mint. Marivaux is said to have written his first play, the ''Père prudent et équitable'', when he was only eighteen, but it was not published until 1712, when he was twenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Game Of Love And Chance
''The Game of Love and Chance'' (french: Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard) is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. ''The Game of Love and Chance'' was first performed 23 January 1730 by the Comédie Italienne. In this play, a young woman is visited by her betrothed, whom she does not know. To get a better idea of the type of person he is, she trades places with her servant and disguises herself. However, unbeknownst to her, her fiancé has the same idea and trades places with his valet. The "game" pits the two false servants against the two false masters, and in the end, the couples fall in love with their appropriate counterpart. Like many of Marivaux's other comedies, ''The Game of Love and Chance'' makes use of stock characters from the Commedia dell'arte. In this play, Arlequin is featured. Lisette, who appears in other Marivaux plays, also takes on a stock personality as the feisty servant. Plot summary Silvia is engaged to marry Dorante, a man s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Deslandes
Raymond Deslandes, called Raimond Deslandes, (12 July 182523 March 1890) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright and theater manager. He wrote, alone or in collaboration (particularly with Eugène Labiche), numerous comedies. He also directed the Théâtre du Vaudeville. Works Theatre * 1845: ''Un souper sous la Régence'', vaudeville comedy in 1 act, with Commerson, Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques (15 November) * 1848: ''Un mariage par procuration'', vaudeville comedy in 1 act, with Armand Durantin, Théâtre du Vaudeville (8 June) * 1850: ''Les Trois Racan'', comedy in 1 act from the ''Mémoires'' by Tallemant des Réaux, with Armand Durantin, Théâtre-Historique (25 June) * 1851: ''Jeanne'', vaudeville comedy in 3 acts, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, Théâtre des Variétés (1 February) * 1852: ''Méridien'', vaudeville comedy in 1 act, with Clairville and Pol Mercier, Vaudeville (17 August) * 1853: ''La Terre promise'', vaudeville comedy in 3 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Labiche
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin". Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is or Eugenie. , a common given name in parts of central and northern Europe, is also a variant of Eugene / Eugine. Other male foreign-language variants in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Laya
Léon Laya (c.1810 in Paris – 5 September 1872 in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright. The académicien Jean-Louis Laya was his father. Léon Laya was the author of a number of successful comedies, alternating between the delicacy or purity of the idea and the vivacity of the form : ''Une Maîtresse anonyme'', in 2 acts (1812) ; ''la Peau du lion'', in 2 acts (1814) ; ''les Cœurs d’or'', in 3 acts, with Prémaray ( Gymnase, 1854) ; ''les Jeunes gens'', in 3 acts, free and independent adaptation of Terence's ''Adelphoe'' ( Théâtre-Français, 1855) ; ''le duc Job'', in 4 acts, one of the most sustained successes of the Théâtre-Français (1859) ; ''la Loi du cœur'' (Théâtre-Français, 1862), etc. Theatre *''Le Docteur du défunt'', comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with W. Lafontaine and Pierre Carmouche, Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 28 June 1825 *''Le Dandy'', comedy in 2 acts, mingled with songs, with Jacques-François Ancelot, Paris, Théâtre du Vaudev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
