Sarah Bernhardt - Queen Elizabeth (1912)

[kascnef]

This movie was the first movie released by what would become Paramount Pictures nearly 100 years ago...i wish Paramount would put this one out on itunes, bluray, and dvd!!!

[rayito2005]

Una joya de la epoca de nuestros tatarabuelos.

[BCB228]

I really want to find her family tree because my last name is Bernhardt and we might be related

[bertmustin]

One of our nations greatest Presidents.

[alnamree]

From where Ican download this Gem?

[ThePharaoho]

Wow! She really emoted well with her movements which was so important in the silent era. She also had great stage presence, the best I've seen thus far. I can see now why she was so famous and popular.

[emmers57]

She was pretty cool, I always liked how she slept in a coffin just to freak people out.

[SexyZhangHe]

Ah! My name is Sarah Bernard :D I want to be an actress too -^_^- Do you think that reincarnation is real....(Sorry for my english i speak french...xD)

[taahliaa]

sarah bernhardt is my great great great grandmother

[Littlezombie]

she was a wooden actress, really bad at pretending to be suprised in this scene...

[Rapture1987]

@Littlezombie Who are your favourite actors/actresses?

[emmers57]

@Littlezombie The wooden acting was a kind of holdover from the 19th century theatre.

[Dungbeetleproduction]

i think this is the first paramount film.

[tutuvo07]

@Dungbeetleproduction actually, it's one of the most famous films produced by the Art Film Society of France.

[acmedressform]

@Dungbeetleproduction Paramount secured the rights to show it, but I don't think they actually made it, and Paramount was not called Paramount yet but the Famous Players Film Company.

[blondiebaby105]

my parents used to call me Sara Bernhardt cuz i was such a drama queen!!

[morty18]

i share her last name, im not sure how or if we are related though

[7beers]

She walkks pretty good for someone with only one leg!!!!!!!!

[emtyhanded]

this video was just on 20/20

[xoxoBblair]

Sarah Bernhardt is my idol.I wish i could be like her.

[SuiteLifeFan12345]

She Is My Great Great Grama :) Telling The Truth

[LE3C]

Did you say that she is your great grandmother, Sarah Bernhardt??

[Dirkdebruyne]

is this with her wooden leg or before ?

[swagner99]

Before.

She injured her right knee in a 1905 performance of Tosca. Her leg was amputated in 1915 (3 years after 'Queen Elizabeth').

'Le Duel d'Hamlet' is the only known film of Bernhardt taken before her Tosca leg accident.

[medamine39]

Something Strange about this actress: she used to sleep in a Coffin.

[bisousis]

anybody who knows where to get ahold of the whole movie?

[swagner99]

You can buy a DVD version of it on ebay.

[CrummyCurtis]

...and with this film, what became Paramount Pictures was born!

[Walkemor]

Oh, the drama!

I'm dissapointed.

[tefisher1984]

Happy belated 164th birthday Sarah Bernhardt!

[LeePrice86]

how deliciously melodramatic!

[watzup1521]

it's sort of boring

[ohwellwhateverneverm]

its kinda crepy

[mangocheeserules]

mckenna i told u not to u look like an idiot now

[chocolatecherry22]

my friend is related to this girl i have proof and if you dont believe me i will fart in your mouth and poop in your ear and pee on your head lolz~!

[dogshitlover]

? i don't get it...dope

[otterhouse]

I knew her Pathé cylinders, but never saw any movie of her. Thanks!

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[hotlolle]

caca

[jedwentz]

I would rather say that both opera singers and theater actors today act like film actors...cause we the audience all expect and denmand dreary realism and intimate close-ups! I personally don't need realism when I go to the theatre..I get enough of reality everyday, gimme some fantasy folks!

[AdArmand]

DH Lawrence on Sarah Bernhardt :-

"There she is, the incarnation of wild emotion which we share with all live things. She represents the primeval passions of woman. I could love such a woman myself, love her to madness; all for the pure wild passion of it."

[AdArmand]

didthey sew his head back on?! ;)

[viobibi]

I thought the same thing...

[angelsoulnme]

Me too! I kept saying, be careful his head is going to fall off! LMAO

[kearsleymak]

If I remember correctly, on some occasions with beheadings the head was sewn back on after if it was a nobleman. The execution is inaccurate, he was beheaded with a sword not an axe in the same way that most noblemen were beheaded with swords

[BlargyBlue]

The exaggerated style of the day - but one can't take one's eyes off her. That is the mark of a star.

[makemecash1]

nice stuff

[Ankhsnammon]

Thanks,sir,for to pst this!I feel the neded of to speak in my native tongue for to say:DIOSA ABSOLUTA!!!!!!

Ankhsnammon(Galantha nina,from Argentina)

[Kriskronqui]

was just reading about her, and its very cool too see a clip of her :)

[orkneysnorknie]

move over cate blanchett

[spursbackpacker]

its amazing to watch her in this clip. I am truly amazed at the quality of the clip, its amazing. Thank you for sharing. I have only ever seen photographs of her.

[MuzanSayson]

Thank you SO much.

I had to do a report on Ms. Bernhardt almost two years ago now, and since then I have been fascinated by her. I've been told that I mimic her style a bit and until now, I've never been able to see her act. Thank you SO much.

[swagner99]

You're welcome. :-)

[Laleyla]

Hmmm, how do they keep the head in place? I thought he was decapitated....Great acting I think, words are not necessary. I'd like to see her as Tosca.

[MidstreamHorse]

Surreal to see this woman on film. I have the whole movie on VHS. Hard to watch because it's not filmed well and the lighting throughout is terrible. But it gives us an idea of her presence at least.

[JasmineBurlesque]

Wow, that's cool.

[Isidore98]

Do you think she's a bit vexed? More ham than there is in Parma...

[NGS712]

That's how they liked it.

[Isidore98]

Agreed - it's just difficult to accept in a modern conetxt!

[NGS712]

Of course it is a silent film and without the ham acting we wouldn't really know how she was feeling.

[Isidore98]

She made commercial recordings (for Zonophone and Pathe) around 1900 and these also show how styles have changed (an obvious point from me!. In those recordings (which are clear enough) she might as well be singing (dramatically) and she rises to an almost embarassing crescendo of passion (very uncomfortable for modern tastes). I am not critcising her - just underlining that thing's were different then - this is probably how she did it on stage!

[ratatouilletv]

it's a bit like opera

[NGS712]

Thankfully w/o the sound.

[NGS712]

It was just a j/k. Geez, ever since this rating system all the stiffs have been having a field day.

[Homoclassicus]

You certainly mean old-fashioned style of interpreting an opera, because nowadays the acting of most singers is quite similar to the actors of a theater. The only difference is that Opera needs slower and more grandiloquent movements in order to adequate the acting to the music, which is longer than a simple talk. ;-)

[7beers]

So use your imagination a bit more and relate to it in the context in which it was created.