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"Exhaustive research in every major archive of the world has created this compilation of information and images focusing on Bernhardt's films and twenty early wax-cylinder and disc recordings. Detailed analyses of the motion pictures include plot synopses, casts, production notes, and contemporary reviews. Complete records of Bernhardt's work on stage, in films, and recordings are annotated and indexed.The book includes such rare items as dramatic readings by Bernhardt on early wax cylinders and 78rpm (transcribed in the original French and translated into English for the first time), as well as stills from a previously unknown film (depicting the death scene from the 1921 ""Daniel"")."

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David W. Menefee, formerly a contributing writer and marketing representative for The Dallas Times Herald and The Dallas Morning News, is a book editor for Brown Books Publishing Group. He is also the author of The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era (Greenwood 2004), The First Male Stars: Men of the Silent Era (Bear Manor Media 2007), George O'Brien: A Man's Man in Hollywood (Info Net Publishing 2008), and Between Bernhardt and Duse: The Rise and Fall of Lou-Tellegen (Em. Querido 2008.) He lives in Dallas, Texas.

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