Camille DVD Rudolph Valentino Alla Nazimova (1921)
Valentino's friend Mathis was primarily responsible for this -- although he had already been in a few films, the just-completed Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would not be released until a few days before Camille began shooting. So the silent screen's biggest heartthrob was still a virtual unknown, as far as Nazimova was concerned. But as Armand he nearly steals the show because he seems so much more natural than Nazimova's stagey Camille -- not to mention the fact that by the film came out, Four Horsemen had already made him a star. The art direction shows the stylized hand of Natacha Rambova, and it was on this production that she and Valentino met and became lovers. The plot to Nazimova's picture stays close to the book at first -- the glamorous demi-monde gives up her lifestyle for young Armand, then gives him up at the behest of his father (William Orlamond)
Alla Nazimova - Marguerite Gauthier/Camille
Rudolph Valentino - Armand Duval
Arthur Hoyt - Count De Varville
Zeffie Tilbury - Prudence
Rex Cherryman - Gaston
Patsy Ruth Miller - Nichette
Consuelo Flowerton - Olympe
Edward Connelly - The Duke
William Orlamond - Msr. Duval
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