Storyline |
Garbo as Camille |
*Other actresses who have played Camille (on stage): Theda Bara, Sarah Bernhart,
Norma Talmadge, Alla Nazimova ( silent- movie with Valentino) * |
*Alexander Dumas based the character Camille on a real youthful courtesan named Marie
Alphonsine du Plessis who died at the age of twenty-four. * |
*Camille is most critics' favourite Garbo movie. The praise of her performance was
never- ending when the movie was released in 1937* |
* Garbo won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best leading Lady, for her
performance in Camille* |
*Garbo was also nominated for an Academy Award for her wonderful performance. Most
people expected her to win, but faith wanted it different. Louise Rainer won
her second Oscar. Garbo never won any in the Best Actress category* |
"Camille" is always listed among the top- 5 Garbo reels. No wonder really, as she
gives one of her finest performances of her career. She is powerful, yet weak.
She is happy, yet dying. Garbo gives a poetic performance. It's like watching
a poem. She is so heavenly beautiful; is she really of this world?? Her acting
is so generous, so overcome with the tenderness of true love that she sweeps you
away. The deathbed scene is one of the greatest and most touching scenes I've
ever seen. -HM- |
It is France in the mid-Nineteenth Century. Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand
Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Camille is forced
to abandon her dreams of life with Duval by the intolerance of French society,
which would doom his career and prevent the marriage of his sister into a "respectable"
family, if Duval married Camille. |
Greta Garbo
Marguerite Robert Taylor Armand Laura Hope Crews Prudence Henry Daniell Baron DeVarville Lionel Barrymore Mr. Duval Elizabeth Allan Nichette Lenore Ulric Olympe |
Director
George Cukor Written by Zoê Akins Frances Marion James Hilton (Adaption of Alexander Dumas novel) MGM 1937 |
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