La Dame aux camélias (1934)
1h 50m
Running Time
November 2, 1934Release Date
La Dame aux camélias (1934)
1h 50m
Running Time
November 2, 1934Release Date
Plot.
Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was filmed twice in 1953, first in Argentina, then in France. The Argentine film was heavily modernized, while the French version returns to Dumas' 19th-century milieu. Micheline Presle is excellent as Marguerite, the gorgeous courtesan who flits from man to man until she finds true love in the form of the much-younger Armand (Rolande Alexandre). Though he is willing to marry her despite her past, she is persuaded to forsake him, lest his reputation be ruined. The story then wends its way towards its famous tragic finale, as the consumptive Marguerite is permitted a few brief moments of happiness before her flame is permanently extinguished. Advertised as the seventh version of the Dumas classic, La Dame aux Camelias was certainly not the last.
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Cast & Crew.

Yvonne Printemps
Marguerite Gauthier

Pierre Fresnay
Armand Duval

Jane Marken
Prudence

Jane Marken
Prudence

Roland Armontel
Gaston

André Dubosc
le duc

Armand Lurville
Saint-Gaudens

Andrée Lafayette
Olympe

Lugné-Poe
M. Duval

Irma Génin
Nichette

Renée Sénac
Nanine

Eddy Debray
Varville

Pierre Morin
Le docteur

Rivers Cadet
Le marchand d'oublies

Janine Berry
La patronne

Roger Hubert
Cinematographer

Jérôme Goulven
Un élégant

Abel Gance
Director / Producer

Fernand Rivers
Director

Harry Stradling Sr.
Director of Photography

Fernand Masson
Music

André Versein
Editor

Henri Ménessier
Production Design

René Renoux
Production Design

Edmond Pingrin
Production Manager

William A. Wilmarth
Sound Engineer

Christiane Isola

Anne-Marie Cérès

Noël Darzal

Claude Ivane

Marcelle Duval
Details.
Wiki.
The Lady of the Camellias (French: La dame aux camélias) is a 1934 French historical romantic drama film directed by Fernand Rivers and Abel Gance and starring Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay and Jane Marken. It is based on the 1848 novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Henri Ménessier and René Renoux.