Film Forum

U.S., 1937
Directed by George Cukor
Starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
Produced by Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoe Akins, and Frances Marion.
35mm. Approx. 108 min.

“His eyes have made love to me all evening.” Greta Garbo’s tubercular courtesan Marguerite Gautier falls for Robert Taylor’s naïve, but gorgeous, young suitor Armand Duval, despite the admonitions of her father Lionel Barrymore, in quintessential Hollywood adaptation of Dumas fils’ novel The Lady of the Camellias. 

Presented with support from the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s

Reviews

“One of the marvels of American cinema… I don’t see how it could be better.”
– Kevin Brownlow

“Camille is for Garbo’s most discerning admirers her most accomplished portrayal.”
– Andrew Sarris