Eleanora Duse

As an adolescent she read biographies of Eleanora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt, and won a city-wide competition playing Emily in "Our Town."

The Independent-Film Character Joanne Kaufman 2011

Born Eleanora Derenkowsky in Kiev, Ukraine, on April 29, 1917, the only child of Marie (Fiedler) and Solomon David Derenkowsky, she was named after Eleanora Duse, the eminent Italian actor.

Maya Deren. 2009

We have seen it still later in our own times, in that strange and half-repulsive story in which the Italian novelist and poet, Gabriele d'Annunzio, under a very thin disguise, revealed his relations with the famous actress, Eleanora Duse.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

We have seen it still later in our own times, in that strange and half-repulsive story in which the Italian novelist and poet, Gabriele d'Annunzio, under a very thin disguise, revealed his relations with the famous actress, Eleanora Duse.

Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4 Lyndon Orr

The criss-cross effect resulting from combing and arranging the hair contrary to "the grain" is conspicuously apparent in the coiffure of no less a personage than Eleanora Duse, who, as may be seen from the picture, pays little attention to the natural tendency of the dark tresses that cover her shapely head.

What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley

And -- whilst we are, so to speak, on the subjeck -- you can put in likewise what Eleanora Duse said o 'me.

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

` Yes, and it would be lovely to have Eleanora Duse play the lead, 'she said, ` and aside from the fact that it's evening in the first act, you're a great technician,' she said.

Main Street 1920

'Yes, and it would be lovely to have Eleanora Duse play the lead,' she said, 'and aside from the fact that it's evening in the first act, you're a great technician,' she said.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

In her work she speaks of the fate of several gifted women of international fame: The genius, Eleanora Duse; the great mathematician and writer, Sanja Kovalevskaja; the artist and poet nature, Marie Bashkirzeff, who died so young.

Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 Various 1904

Eleanora Duse at the present moment is probably accepted as the greatest living player of the world.

Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896