Due to the overwhelming public interest in her, Sarah Bernhardt is widely considered to be the world's first celebrity, and is still revered today. It was Sarah Bernhardt, born in Paris in 1844, as well known in her lifetime as Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe or Lady Gaga in hers. Nowadays it may seem inconceivable that a stage actor could achieve this level of fame, but in the 19th century, before cinema, radio and the Internet, theater was the only game in town. Both the rich and the poor attended live performances several times a week.
London, New York and Paris attracted 18 million spectators a year. Small towns also had theaters, and major stars traveled to them; one of Bernhardt's many tours of the United States included a stop in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Celebrity
is a condition of fame and wide public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to it by the media. A person can achieve celebrity status by having great wealth, their participation in sports or the entertainment industry, their position as a political figure, or even because of their connection with another celebrity.To stay in the public eye and generate wealth in addition to their salaried work, numerous celebrities participate and branch out into various commercial ventures and sponsorships. Although his book is subtitled From the Bronze Age to the Big Screen, and despite the fact that until very recently, sociologists argued that celebrity was invented just over 100 years ago, in the blinking flash of early Hollywood and with the suggestion that some medieval saints might qualify, Jenner says that the first celebrities lived in the early 18th century, his first example being Henry Sacz Heverell. Celebrities have always existed, but Bernhardt modernized celebrity by understanding that stars wield power in relation to equally powerful audiences and media. However, celebrity was not always linked to actors in movies, especially when cinema began as a medium.
Access to celebrities is strictly controlled by their entourage of staff, including managers, publicists, agents, personal assistants and bodyguards. Founding editor of Public Books, she is the author of The Drama of Celebrity (201), available in hardcover, e-book and audiobook at Princeton University Press. In addition to investing their salaries in growing business ventures, several celebrities have become innovative business leaders in their respective industries, earning the admiration of their peers and contributing to the country's economy. The common denominator of all these young celebrity deaths is substance abuse, a disease that can cause depression, insomnia, personality changes, judgment problems and poor relationships.
So, compared to the average person starting a business, celebrities already have all the cards and odds going for them. In the second half of the century, television and popular music brought new forms of celebrity, such as the rock star and the pop group, personified by Elvis Presley and the Beatles, respectively. Celebrities are portrayed alternately as shining examples of perfection, when they win awards, or as decadent or immoral if associated with scandal. Forbes magazine publishes an annual Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the highest-paid celebrities in the world.
Unlike movies, television created celebrities who weren't primarily actors; for example, presenters, talk show hosts, and news readers. The restaurants near the theaters, where the actors met, began to place cartoons or photographs of actors on the walls of famous people at the end of the 19th century. Not everything is as hidden as in old Hollywood, because now everything is published on the Internet by fans or even celebrities themselves. .
