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Adah Isaacs Menken (June 15, 1835 – August 10, 1868) was an American actress, painter and poet, and was the highest earning actress of her time. She was best known for her performance in the hippodrama Mazeppa, with a climax that featured her apparently nude and riding a horse on stage.
Adah Isaacs Menken (15 de junio de 1835 – 10 de agosto de 1868) fue una actriz, pintora, y poetisa estadounidense. Biografía. Nació como Adah Bertha Theodore en Nueva Orleans, Luisiana, de madre francesa criolla y del negro libre Auguste Theodore. Bailó como niña en Nueva Orleans, La Habana y Texas.
In her short but remarkable life, actress Adah Isaacs Menken became legendary for her scandalous defiance of convention. One of the most glamorous celebrities of the 1860s, Menken also cultivated a literary following. She wrote poetry and developed relationships with Walt Whitman and Charles Dickens, among others.
Adah Isaacs Menken (born June 15, 1835, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.—died Aug. 10, 1868, Paris, France) was an American actress and poet widely celebrated for her daring act of appearing (seemingly) naked, strapped to a running horse. The facts concerning Menken’s early life are obscured by later and confused publicity stories.
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24 de mar. de 2016 · Adah Isaacs Menken as Leon, a Mexican slave, in John Brougham’s play Child of the Sun, ca. 1866. This is one of almost 100 images of Menken contained in The Huntington’s copy of Infelicia, an extra-illustrated book of Menken’s poetry. Photo by Napolean Sarony. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
It was more than a century ago that Adah Isaacs Menken, the first American Jewish “superstar,” helped pioneer the art of cultivating an outsized, even outrageous, personality as a path to fame and fortune. Even fame, however, could not guarantee her happiness. In the 1860s, Menken earned world fame in an equestrian melodrama, “Mazeppa.”
Adah Isaacs Menken was a writer, lecturer, and actress whose infamous private life brought widespread attention to her acting career. Born near New Orleans, most likely of African American, white, and Creole heritage, Adah Isaacs married affluent businessman Alexander Isaac Menken when she was around 21 and adopted his faith, Judaism.
