Sarah Bernhardt's early career -- her unequivocal debacles and equally unequivocal triumphs -- is re-created by an all-British cast whose classy limey accents set the high-culture tone of the project. Everything about this loosey-goosey biography reminds you of moviemaking circa 1936, except that instead of Katharine Hepburn, you get Glenda Jackson impersonating Phaedra, Camille, and, for the thirtieth or fortieth time on screen, Joan of Arc at the stake. The movie was backed by Reader's Digest, but its strongest point -- the fastidious attention to fin-de-siècle decors -- is more in the realm of House Beautiful. Directed by Richard Fleischer. (1976) — Duncan Shepherd
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