I am Sarah Bernhardt, I was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. I played female and male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called me "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", and Hugo praised my "golden voice". I made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures.