Langtry and Bernhardt

Langtry and Bernhardt

Langtry and Bernhardt
« on: November 03, 2019, 10:30:55 pm »
When I saw this in an auction, I simply told myself "MINE". These two ladies, Sara Bernhardt and Lilly Landtry, were the TOP women singers in the western world during the Victorian Era. Both traveled in America and Europe. Landry even sung at the Bird Cage theater in Tombstone, Arizona. On the back is a cutting from an old article with an illustration of THIS image. Evidently, the theater photographer, Napoleon Sorony of NY approached both women then on tour there and asked them to pose together. You can see clearly that Langtry was the more relaxed with Bernhardt rather more formal. Evidently, from the article, when they both arrived, it was suggested that maybe they should be photographed separately but Bernhardt "insisted" that they be photographed together as planned.  The article says that after "the ordeal was over, Berhardt's spirits seemed to rise and when she and Mrs. Langtry left the studio she was laughing and chatting with all the abandon of a child".  This has become one of my favorite photographs.

Identifier (messages:topics)
 

  Subject Views Last post
2681 Views November 24, 2021, 02:41:11 am
2389 Views November 24, 2021, 02:42:50 am
2436 Views October 10, 2019, 03:44:26 pm
2489 Views October 10, 2019, 03:53:06 pm
2135 Views October 10, 2019, 04:40:43 pm
1893 Views October 10, 2019, 05:08:04 pm
1921 Views October 14, 2019, 09:28:07 am
2141 Views October 14, 2019, 05:36:10 pm
2032 Views October 26, 2019, 11:26:16 am
2306 Views October 26, 2019, 12:21:35 pm
1866 Views November 04, 2019, 05:30:55 pm
1824 Views November 06, 2019, 04:16:45 pm
1957 Views November 08, 2019, 04:52:47 pm
1589 Views November 08, 2019, 06:00:35 pm
1701 Views November 09, 2019, 04:58:31 pm
1498 Views November 10, 2019, 07:43:47 am
1887 Views November 13, 2019, 09:00:13 am
1845 Views November 13, 2019, 09:31:49 am
1944 Views November 13, 2019, 04:40:30 pm
1762 Views November 26, 2019, 06:57:23 pm
1851 Views November 26, 2019, 07:36:38 pm
1920 Views November 29, 2019, 04:43:15 pm
1895 Views December 01, 2019, 04:16:03 pm
1495 Views December 01, 2019, 04:21:08 pm
1502 Views December 02, 2019, 11:38:35 am
1749 Views December 04, 2019, 09:12:41 am
1620 Views December 05, 2019, 05:58:49 pm
1868 Views December 08, 2019, 04:18:01 pm
1595 Views December 10, 2019, 03:01:07 pm
1896 Views December 12, 2019, 05:29:14 pm
1858 Views December 18, 2019, 06:54:18 am
2011 Views December 24, 2019, 10:11:16 am
2140 Views January 05, 2020, 09:06:54 am
1746 Views January 15, 2020, 09:04:34 am
1713 Views January 30, 2022, 09:28:49 am
1657 Views January 30, 2022, 09:53:52 am
1729 Views February 06, 2022, 05:06:00 pm
1817 Views February 11, 2022, 07:55:12 am
1667 Views February 15, 2022, 06:35:21 pm
2072 Views February 16, 2022, 10:56:05 am
2479 Views February 17, 2022, 04:20:48 pm
1825 Views February 19, 2022, 11:33:59 am
1935 Views March 02, 2022, 11:35:21 am
5149 Views March 14, 2022, 03:14:38 pm
5495 Views March 14, 2022, 03:51:42 pm
5581 Views March 22, 2022, 05:44:48 pm
5971 Views April 07, 2022, 09:19:15 am
5409 Views April 10, 2022, 04:56:32 am
5875 Views April 14, 2022, 04:35:02 am