Lou Tellegen was a Dutch-born stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter.
Tellegen in 1916
Tellegen caricatured in Vanity Fair, 1913
Tellegen with second wife, opera soprano and actress Geraldine Farrar, c. 1916
Lou Tellegen autographed drawing by Manuel Rosenberg for the Cincinnati Post, 1922
Sarah Bernhardt 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 B
Lou Tellegen
…1903, and over the next few years built a reputation to the point where he was invited to perform in Paris, eventually co-starring in several roles with Sarah Bernhardt, with whom he was involved romantically. In 1910, he made his motion picture debut alongside Bernhardt in La dame aux camélias, a silent film made in…
Bernhardt with her mother
Debut of Bernhardt in Les Femmes Savantes at the Comédie-Française, 1862
Sarah Bernhardt in 1864; age 20, by photographer Félix Nadar