Camille (1936)

Camille movie storyline. An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ play – a tragi-romantic film with the radiantly-luminous Greta Garbo in her most famous role as a doomed, star-crossed, dying French courtesan who falls in love with a young nobleman. Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo) is a Parisian courtesan, supported by Baron de Varville, but she falls in love with a naive, shallow gentleman Armand Duval (Robert Taylor).

When his concerned father (Lionel Barrymore) thwarts them and objects to their love affair, she selflessly renounces and sacrifices her own happiness and breaks off her relationship. In the film’s finale, Armand returns to her deathbed where she is dying of tuberculosis – the camera lingers on her face as she dies in her lover’s arms.

Camille (1936) is an American romantic drama film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoë Akins, and Frances Marion. The picture is based on the 1848 novel and 1852 play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The film stars Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Henry Daniell, and Laura Hope Crews. It grossed $2,842,000.

Directed by: George Cukor
Starring: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Henry Daniell, Lenore Ulric, Laura Hope Crews, Rex O’Malley, Mariska Aldrich, Phyllis Barry, Marion Ballou
Screenplay by: James Hilton, Zoë Akins, Frances Marion
Cinematography by: William H. Daniels, Karl Freund
Film Editing by: Margaret Booth
Costume Design by: Adrian
Set Decoration by: Henry Grace, Jack D. Moore
Art Direction by: Cedric Gibbons
Music by: Herbert Stothart, Edward Ward
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: December 12, 1936