Camille

Garbo is at her radiant best in Cukor’s refined and elegant adaptation of Dumas’s novel and play about a Parisian courtesan.

  • Director

    George Cukor

  • With

    Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan

  • USA 1936. 109min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

Dumas’ stage version of his novel The Lady of the Camellias was the first of countless adaptations; this is surely one of the finest on film. Garbo gives her all as the Parisian courtesan, kept by a baron but loved by another while she battles with consumption. MGM supplied the sumptuous sets and costumes, William Daniels’ the lustrous camerawork, Cukor the refined direction.

The screening of Camille on Wednesday 8 May will include an introduction.