''Camille'' is a 1917 American silent film based on the play adaptation of ''
La Dame aux Camélias
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'' (''The Lady of the Camellias'') by
Alexandre Dumas, ''fils'', first published in French as a novel in 1848 and as a play in 1852. Adapted for the screen by Adrian Johnson, ''Camille'' was directed by
J. Gordon Edwards
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and starred
Theda Bara
Theda Bara ( ; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatal ...
as Camille and
Albert Roscoe
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as her lover, Armand.
The film was produced by
Fox Film Corporation
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and shot at the Fox Studio in
Fort Lee, New Jersey
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Plot
As described in a film magazine, Armand Duval (Roscoe), a son in the proud but poor house of Duval, loves Camille (Bara), a notorious Parisian beauty. His love for Camille means that his sister Celeste (Whitney) cannot marry the man she loves, so the father goes to Camille and begs her to give Armand up, which she does. This arouses the anger of Armand and he denounces her one evening in public. The Count de Varville (Law) challenges Armand to a duel which he wins, wounding Armand in the arm. Believing Camille no longer loves him, Armand does not go to see her. One day his father tells him that Camille is dying. He goes to her and, after a few words, she dies in the arms of her lover.
Cast
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Theda Bara
Theda Bara ( ; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatal ...
- Marguerite Gauthier ("Camille")
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Alan Roscoe - Armand Duval (as Albert Roscoe)
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Walter Law - Count de Varville
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Glen White - Gaston Rieux
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Alice Gale - Madame Prudence
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Claire Whitney - Celeste Duval
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Richard Barthelmess
Richard Semler Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's ''Broken Blossoms'' (1919) and ''Way Down East'' (1920) and w ...
- Bit Part
Reception
Like many American films of the time, ''Camille'' was subject to cuts by
city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors issued an Adults Only permit, cut two long gambling sequences where money was on the table and flashed all other gambling scenes, and cut the two intertitles "That woman once favored me when I was poor, now that I am rich bear witness that I pay" and "You are here because you are selfish - and make a sale of your love to the highest bidder".
Preservation status
This film is now considered a
lost film
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See also
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List of lost films
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1937 Fox vault fire
The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industr ...
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''Camille'' (1917) at SilentEraStill photo of a scene from ''Camille'' (University of Washington Sayre Collection)
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1917 films
1917 drama films
Fox Film films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films based on Camille
American films based on plays
Films directed by J. Gordon Edwards
Films shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey
Lost American films
Films based on adaptations
1917 lost films
Lost drama films
1910s American films
1910s English-language films