Camille
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Albert Capellani
Clara Kimball Young
Paul Capellani
Lillian Cook
Robert Cummings
Dan Baker
Film Details
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Synopsis
Count de Varville supports the courtesan Camille, but she loves Armand Duval, a young lawyer with whom she goes to the country to live. Their happiness there is brief, as Armand's father visits Camille in secret and demands that she leave his son or be responsible for his ruined future. Camille agrees and returns to Varville, forcing Armand to believe that she does indeed love the count. Finally, he learns of his father's intrusion into the affair and rushes to see Camille, whose health has deteriorated since her departure from Armand. The couple embraces, and just after Camille and Armand pledge their love for each other, she dies in his arms.
Director
Albert Capellani
Cast
Clara Kimball Young
Paul Capellani
Lillian Cook
Robert Cummings
Dan Baker
Stanhope Wheatcroft
Frederick C. Truesdell
William Jefferson
Edward M. Kimball
Louie Ducey
Beryl Morhange
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The working title of the film was A Modern Camille. According to a modern source, Ben Carré was an art director on this film. Dumas' novel was also filmed by Fox in 1917 as Camille (see below). At least three American films from the twenties were based in whole or in part on the novel: the 1921 Metro release Camille, starring Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino and directed by Ray C. Smallwood; the 1924 Warner Bros. film The Lover of Camille, starring Monte Blue and Marie Prevost and directed by Harry Beaumont; and the 1927 First National release Camille, starring Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland and directed by Fred Niblo. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.0753, F2.3259 and F2.0754.) Among the many other screen adaptations of the novel is the 1936 Metro film Camille, starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor and directed by George Cukor (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.0578). Verdi's opera La Traviata inspired by Dumas' novel, has also been the basis for several films, including the 1982 Italian production directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
