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Bernhardt Sarah - Ma double vie (partie 1) : Sociétaire turbulente de la Comédie Française, femme critiquée pour ses excentricités, aventurière évoquée jusque dans la BD pour la tournée de sa troupe à travers les États-Unis, sculpteur et peintre, Sarah Bernhardt fut bien sûr une actrice de renom. Mais c'est aussi une magnifique écrivaine, au style limpide, léger, drôle et plein de trouvailles. Dans cette première partie de ses mémoires...
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Kar-Ben Pub
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2011.
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English
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From the age of five, Marcel Marceau knew he wanted to be a silent actor, just like Charlie Chaplin. When World War II intervened, he joined the resistance, helping to get young Jews to safety during this dangerous time. But Marcel never forgot his dream of being a mime artist and entertaining the world.
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University Press of Mississippi
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[2014]
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English
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"The incomparable Simone Signoret, one of the grand actresses of the twentieth century and one of France's most notable stars, considered herself the "oldest discovery" in Hollywood. After years of blacklisting during the McCarthy era, she was thirty-eight years old when she entered Hollywood through the back door in the 1959 British blockbuster Room at the Top. Her portrayal of the endearing Alice Aisgill earned her the Academy Award in 1960, the...
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Gallaudet University Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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Emmanuelle Laborit's parents discovered that she was deaf when she was nine months old. The specialist's advice was to have her fitted with a hearing aid, get her into speech therapy as soon as possible, and avoid sign language (which until 1976 was illegal in France for what was considered obscene movement of the body) at all costs. So began her education, typical then for a young deaf child in France. By chance her father discovered sign language...
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