Fifteen elegant costumes worn in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by one of the world's most famous actresses in La Dame aux Camélias, L'Aiglon, Hamlet, Les Bouffons, and other roles.

Inspired by the voluptuous style of Art Nouveau master Alfonse Mucha, this collection features two paper dolls and 28 gowns, including costumes from Sarah Bernhardt productions of Salomé and Hamlet.

10 dolls and 14 costumes based on the much-loved musical come with two background settings. Perfect for a paper-doll production of the operetta or as a keepsake for Gilbert and Sullivan fans.

Noted fashion illustrator recaptures one of the greatest cult figures of Hollywood history in 3 lifelike dolls and 33 costumes from 27 films: Anna Christie, Mata Hari, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, Anna Karenina, Camille, Ninotchka, 20 others. Costumes by Adrian, Andre-Ani, Gilbert Clark, Max Ree. Biography.

The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Robert Gottlieb's Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times. From the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies surrounding Bruno Bettelheim and Elia Kazan; and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her editor, Maxwell Perkins. From dance and theater, Isadora Duncan and Margot Fonteyn, Serge Diaghilev and George Balanchine, Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. In Hollywood, Bing Crosby and Judy Garland, Douglas Fairbanks and Lillian Gish, Tallulah Bankhead and Katharine Hepburn, Mae West and Anna May Wong. In New York, Diana Vreeland, the Trumps, and Gottlieb's own take on the contretemps that followed his replacing William Shawn at The New Yorker. And so much more . . .

Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career--redefining the very nature of her art--to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life, to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I and toured America for the ninth time. Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, this is the first English-language biography to appear in decades, tracking the trajectory through which an illegitimate--and scandalous--daughter of a Jewish courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.--From publisher description.

Detailed, accurate renderings of 2 dolls, 28 costumes — Queen Victoria's wedding gown, evening dress by Worth, Dolly Varden walking suit, more.

A pictorial tribute to American designers! Two dolls with a stunning wardrobe of casual clothes, cocktail dresses, and elegant evening gowns model the creations of 32 designers, among them Mainbocher, Adele Simpson, Oscar de la Renta, Norman Norell, Pauline Trigère, Adolfo, Bill Blass, Geoffrey Beene, Carolina Herrera, Isaac Mizrahi, and Vera Wang.