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. [1][2] , with the year of the first performance. This list does not include one-time performances or revivals. Roles first performed by Bernhardt are noted as premieres.
Bernhardt at the Comédie-Française, photographed by Félix Nadar 1865
Theatrical Roles (1862-1869)
Bernhardt as the boy troubadour, Zanetto, in Le Passant (1869)
Dona Sol in Hernani (1878)
The Queen of Spain in Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas (1879)
Froufrou" by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy (1880)
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Theodora by Victorien Sardou (1884)
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Bernhardt in La Tosca by Victorien Sardou (1887), photo by Félix Nadar
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Gismonda (1888)
Jeanne d'Arc by Jules Barbier (1890)
As Cleopatra during her Australian tour; photo by Henry Walter Barnett (1891)
La Dame Aux Camelias (circa 1896)
Hamlet" (1899)
Bernhardt as "Cleopatra" by Victorien Sardou(1899)
Bernhardt in L'Aiglon (1900)
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As Zoraya in La Sorcière by Sardou (1903)
As Pelleas in Pelleas and Melisande (1905)
1862
- Iphigénie by Racine, role of Iphigénia
- Valérie by Eugene Scribe, role of Valerie
- Les Femmes Savantes by Molière, role of Henriette
- L'Etourdi by Molière, role of Hippolyte
1864
- Le Père de la Debutante, by Barrière, role of Anita
- Le Démon du Jeu, by Barrière and Cristafulli (premiere)
- Un Soufflet n'est Jamais Perdu
- La Maison sans Enfants by Dumanoir
- L'Etourneau, by Baya and Laya
- Le Premier Pas Labiche & Deslandes
- Un Mari qui Lance sa Femme by Deslandes
1865
- La Biche aux Bois by the Coignard brothers, role of Princess Désirée
1866
- Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard by Pierre de Marivaux, role of Silvia
1867
- Les Femmes Savantes by Molière, role of Armande
- King Lear by William Shakespeare, role of Cordelia
- Athalie by Racine, role of Zarcharie
- Le Testament de César Girodot, by Bélot and Villetard, role of Hortense
- François-le-Champi by George Sand, role of Mariette
- Le Marquis de Villemer by George Sand, role of Baronne d'Arglade
1868
- Kean by Alexander Dumas père, role of Anna Damby
- La Loterie du Marriage by Jules Barbier, role of Laure Dufour (premiere)[3]
1869
- La Passant by François Coppée , role of Zanetto (premiere)
- Le Bâtard by Alphonse Touroude, role of Jeanne (premiere)
1870-1879
1870
- L'Affranchi by Latour de Saint-Ybars (premiere)
- L'Autre by George Sand, role of Hélène de Mérangis (premiere)
1871
- Jeanne-Marie by André Theuriet, role of Thérése (premiere)
1872
- Mademoiselle Aïssé by Louis Bouilhet, role of Mlle. Aissé (premiere)
- Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, role of Doña Maria de Neubourg, Queen of Spain
- Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle by Alexander Dumas, role of Gabrielle (premiere)
- Le Cid by Corneille, role of Chimène
- Britannicus by Racine, role of Juie
1873
- Le Mariage de Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, role of Chérubin
- Dalila by Octave Feuillet, role of Princess Falconieri
- L'Absent by Eugène Manuel, role of Mistress Douglas (premiere)
- Chez l'Avocat by Paul Ferrier, role of Marthe (premiere)
- Andromache by Racine, role of Andromache
- Phèdre by Racine, role of Aricie
1874
- Le Sphinx by Octave Feuillet, role of Berthe de Savigny (premiere)
- La Belle Paule by Louis Denayrousse, role of d'Henri de Ligniville (premiere)
- Zaire by Voltaire, role of Zaire
- Phèdre by Racine, role of Phèdre
1875
- La Fille de Roland by Henri de Bornier, role of Berthe
- Gabrielle by Emile Augier, role of Gabrielle
1876
- L'Étrangère by Alexandre Dumas, fils, role of Mrs. Clarkson
- La Nuit de Mai by Alfred de Musset, role of the Muse
- Rome Vance by Alexandre Parodi, role of Posthumia (premiere)
1877
- Hernani by Victor Hugo, role of Doña Sol
1878
- Othello by William Shakespeare, role of Desdemona
- Amphytrion by Molière, role of Alcméne
1879
- Mithradite by Racine, role of Monime
1880-1889
1880
- L'Aventurière by Emile Augier, role of Dona Clorinde
- Le Sphinx by Octave Feuillet, role of Blanche de Chelles
- Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouvé, title role
- Froufrou by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, role of Gilberte
- La Dame aux Camélias by, role of Marguerite Alexandre Dumas fils
1881
- La Princesse Georges, by Alexandre Dumas fils, role of Sévérine
1882
- Fédora by Victorien Sardou, role of Fédora (premiere)
1883
- Nana-Sahib by Jean Richepin, role of Djamma (premiere)
1884
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare, adaptation by Jean Richepin, role of Lady MacBeth
- Théodora by Victorien Sardou, role of Theodora, Empress of Byzantium (premiere)
1885
- Marion Delorme by Victor Hugo, role of Marion
1886
- Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, role of Ophelia
- La Maitre des Forges by Georges Ohnet, role of Claire de Beaulieu
- L'Aveu by Sarah Bernhardt, one act, role of Comtesse Marthe de Rocca (premiere)
1887
- La Tosca by Victorien Sardou', role of Floria Tosca (premiere)
1888
- Francillon by Alexandre Dumas, fils, role of Francine de Riverolles
1889
- Léna by PIerre Berton, role of Léna Despart (premiere)
1890-1899
1890
- Jeanne d'Arc by Jules Barbier, incidental music by Charles Gounod role of Jeanne d'Arc
- Cléopâtre by Victorien Sardou, role of Cleopatra (premiere)
1891
- Gringoie by de Banville, role of Gringoire
1893
- Les Rois by Jules LeMaitre, role of Princess Wilhelmine (premiere)
1894
- Izéyl by Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand, role of Izeyl (premiere)
- La Femme de Claude, by Alexandre Dumas fils, role of Césarine
- Gismonda by Victorien Sardou, role of Gismonda (premiere)
1895
- Magda by Hermann Sudermann, role of Magda
- "La Princesse Lointaine by Edmond Rostand, role of Mélissande (premiere)
1896
- Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset, role of Lorenzaccio (premiere)
1897
- Spiritisme by Victorien Sardou, role of Simone (premiere)
- La Samaritaine by Edmond Rostand, role of Photine
- Les Mauvais Bergers by Octave Mirbeau, role of Madeleine
1898
- La Ville Morte by Gabriele d'Annunzio, role of Anne (premiere)
- Lysiane by Romain Coolus, role of Lysiane (premiere)
- Medée by Catulle Mendès, role of Medea
1899
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare, adapted by Marcel Schwob and Eugene Morand, role of Hamlet
1900-1909
1900
- L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, role of the Duc de Reichstadt (premiere)
- Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, role of Roxane
1901
- La Pluie et le beau Temps by Gozlan, role of the Baroness
- Les Precieuses Ridicules by Moliere, role of Madelon
1902
- Francesca da Rimini by Francis Marion Crawford and Schwob, role of Francesca
- Sapho by Alphonse Daudet, role of Fanny Legrand
- Théroigne de Méricourt by Paul Hervieu, role of Théroigne (premiere)
1903
- Andromaque by Racine, role of Hermione, then the role of Andromaque
- Werther by Goethe, role of Werther (premiere)
- Plus que Reine by Emile de Bergerat, role of Joséphine de Beauharnais
- Jeanne Wedekind by Felix Philippi, adaptation by Luigi Krauss (premiere)
- La Sorcière by Victorien Sardou, role of Zoraya (premiere)
1904
- Le Festin de la Mort by Boni de Castellane, role of Mme. Maujourdain (premiere)
- Varennes by Henri Lavedan and Georges LeNôtre, role of Marie Antoinette (premiere)
1905
- Angelo by Victor Hugo, role of Thisbé
- Esther by Racine, role of Assuerus
- Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck role of Pelléas
- Adrienne Lecouvreur adapted by Sarah Bernhardt, role of Adrienne
1906
- La Vierge d'Avila by Catulle Mendés, role of Saint Theresa
1907
- Les Bouffons by Miguel Zamacoïs, role of the hunchback Jacasse
- Le Vert-Galant by Émile Moreau, role of Queen Margot
- La Belle au Bois Dormant (Sleeping Beauty), adapted by Jean Richepin, role of Prince Charming
1908
- Le Courtisan e de Corinthe by Paul Bilhaud and Michel Carré, role of Cléonice (premiere)
1909
- La Nuit de Mai by Alfred de Musset, role of the poet
- La Fille de Rubenstein by Remon
- Le Procès de Jeanne d'Arc by Émile Moreau, role of Jeanne d'Arc (premiere)
1910 - 1923
1910
- La Beffa by Sem Beneli, adapted by Jean Richepin, role of Gianetto Malespini
- La Femme X by Alexandre Bisson, role of Jacqueline Fleuriot
- Judas by John Wesley De Kay, role of Judas Iscariot (premiere)
1911
- Lucrèce Borgia by Victor Hugo, title role
1912
- La Reine Elizabeth by Emlie Moreau, title role (premiere)
- Une nuit de Noel sous la Terreur by Maurice Bernhardt and Henri Cain, role of Marion (premiere)
1913
- Jeanne Foré, by Tristan Bernard, role of Jeanne (premiere)
1914
- Tout à coup by Paul de Cassagnac, role of the Marquis de Chalonne (premiere)
1915
- Les Cathédrales by Eugène Morand, role of Strasbourg Cathedral (one act - premiere)
1916
- La Mort de Cléopatre by Maurice Bernhardt and Henri Cain (one act - premiere)
- l'Holocauste by Maurice Bernhardt, role of the Duchesse (one act - premiere)
- Au Champ d'Honneur , by Maurice Bernhardt and Henri Cain, role of a soldier
- Vitrail by René Fauchois, role of Violaine (one act)
- Hécube by Maurice Bernhardt and Chavance, role of Hécube (one act)
- Le Faux Modèle, Daurelly, role of Madeleine (one act)
- Le Marchand de Venise (The Merchant of Venice) (excerpts), role of Portia
- L'Etoile dans la nuit by Henri Cain, role of Jane de Mauduit (one act)
- Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth (as Queen Elizabeth)
1920-23
1920
- Athalie by Racine, role of Athalie
- Daniel by Louis Vernouil, role of Daniel Arnaud (premiere)
- Comment on ecrit l'Histoire by Sacha Guitry, role of Mariette (one act- premiere)
1921
- La Gloire by Maurice Rostand, role of La Gloire (one act, premiere)
1922
- Régine Armand by Louis Vernouil, role of Régine Armand
Filmography
- 1900: Le Duel d'Hamlet (Hamlet, as Hamlet) An excerpt from the play, featuring Bernhardt in a duel to the death with 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 d'Elisabeth, Reine d'Angleterre (Queen Elizabeth; a major success) A four-reel condensation of the play of the same name. Co-starring Lou Tellegen.
- 1912: Sarah Bernhardt à Belle-Isle (Sarah Bernhardt at Home, as herself) This documentary features Sarah at home with her family and friends, fishing for shrimp, and cuddling indoors with her pet dogs.
- 1915: Mères Françaises (Mothers of France), as Madame Jeanne D'Urbex, a war widow in World War I. When she learns that her son has also been wounded, she searches the battlefields, crawls through trenches, and finally reaches him at a medical station only to have him die in her arms. After this tragedy, she dedicates her life to helping others survive the ravages of war.
- 1915: Ceux de Chez Nous (Those at Home: biographical, home movies) Among other celebrated persons of the era, there is a brief scene featuring Sarah sitting on a park bench and reading from a book.
- 1916: Jeanne Doré (as Jeanne Doré). Based on a play of the same name. Bernhardt appears as a widowed mother, who lavishes attention on her son, Jacques. When he is seduced by a temptress and accidentally murders a man, she visits him in his cell on the night before his execution, pretending to be his fiancée.
- 1921: Daniel (5-minute death scene from the play of the same name.) Bernhardt appears as a morphine addict in the hour before death.
- 1923: La Voyante (The Fortune Teller,) Bernhardt appears as a clairvoyant, who makes predictions that influence the outcome of national events. This film was Bernhardt's final performance, and was made while she was mortally ill. It was eventually completed with scenes made with a stand-in performing Bernhardt's character with her back turned to the camera.
Notes and citations
- ↑ Skinner 1967, pp. 33-41.
- ↑ Tierchant 2009, pp. 374-378.
- ↑ Thierchant 2009, p. 374.
Bibliography
- Bernhardt, Sarah (2000). Ma double vie (in French). Paris: LIbretto. ISBN 978-2-7529-0750-9.
- Bernhardt, Sarah (2017). L'art du théâtre (in French). Paris. ISBN 979-10-95066-08-8.
- Gold, Arthur & Fizdale, Robert (1991). The Divine Sarah: A Life of Sarah Bernhardt. New York: Knopf. pp. 17–20. ISBN 0394528794.
- Gottlieb, Robert (2010). Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-03-0019-2599.
- Skinner, Cornelia Otis (1967). Madame Sarah. New York: Houghton-Mifflin.
- Tierchant, Hélène (2009). Sarah Bernhardt- Madame Quand même. Paris: SW Télémaque. ISBN 978-2-7533-0092-7.
- Snel, Harmen (2007). The ancestry of Sarah Bernhardt; a myth unravelled. Amsterdam: Joods Historisch Museum. ISBN 978-90-802029-3-1.
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