
Sarah Bernhardt
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
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The Best Actress of All Time, Sarah Dancing
Sara was offered a contract for a hundred and 50 francs a month, which is about two thousand dollars in contemporary american money. Her first few plays, let's just call them shakedown cruises. But soon she hit her stride with a string of hits. She gone from that girl that slapped someone to this command performance of this piece in front of napoleon the third.
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