La Bohème (1926)
La Bohème (1926)
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Plot.
It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.
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Cast & Crew.
Lillian Gish
Mimi
John Gilbert
Rodolphe
Roy D'Arcy
Vicomte Paul
Renée Adorée
Musette
Edward Everett Horton
Benoit - Janitor
George Hassell
Schaunard
Karl Dane
Benoit - Janitor
King Vidor
Director
Frédérique De Grésac
Writer
Gino Corrado
Marcel
Fred De Gresac
Writer
Henri Murger
Writer
William M. Conselman
Writer
Mathilde Comont
Madame Benoit
Eugene Pouyet
Bernard
Ruth Cummings
Writer
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Wiki.
La Bohème is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini. Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star in a tragic romance in which a tubercular seamstress sacrifices her life so that her lover, a bohemian playwright, might pen his masterpiece. Gish, at the height of her influence with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, asserted significant control over the production, determining the story, director, cast, cinematography, and costume design. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career.