Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Italian auteur Pietro Marcello, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was the only actress who could play Eleonora Duse in his biopic of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They were pioneers in the business of superstardom more than a century ago. Behind the scenes, legendary actors Sarah Bernhardt ...

"Eleonora Duse represents something so fine, I had such reverence for her. I felt it was audacious for me to be playing her. In the beginning, I believed everything I did on stage had to be greater ...

Eleonora Duse was an actress ahead of her time. As a performer in the late 19th century when elaborate gestures, exotic costumes and lavish decors were the norm, Eleonora Duse stunned audiences with ...

Sheehy (Eva Le Gallienne: A Biography) once again shows acute understanding of actresses in this extravagantly emotional study of Eleonora Duse (1858–1924). Sheehy's operatic prose captures the ...

The Italian actress Eleonora Duse passed into legend long before dying, as did the French-born Sarah Bernhardt, her chief rival and competitor. Both Duse and Bernhardt made silent films near the end ...

Wendy Smith is the author of "Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940." Eleonora DUSE transformed the nature of acting. Though she died nearly 80 years ago, her influence lives in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Italian director Pietro Marcello’s biopic Duse about iconic stage actress Eleonora Duse – the Italian Sarah Bernhardt rival who captivated playwrights such as Anton Chekhov, Luigi ...

For Italian auteur Pietro Marcello, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was the only actress who could play Eleonora Duse in his biopic of the legendary stage diva, which just launched in competition at the Venice ...