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 ...

They were pioneers in the business of superstardom more than a century ago. Behind the scenes, legendary actors Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse were also entrepreneurs who ran their own companies ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an interview with Le Monde, the actress, who plays the legendary Italian stage performer Eleonora Duse in Pietro Marcello's latest film, discusses the difficult situation facing film d'auteur in ...

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 ...