Camille (1936) Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore

Camille is a 1936 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.[3] 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. Plot: A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail. Tragic story of a woman sacrificing happiness for love.