Garbo Talks When CAMILLE Screens for Free April 27th at Webster University

“When one may not have long to live, why shouldn’t one have fancies?”

CAMILLE (1936) screens Friday April 27th at 7:30 at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood) as part of its St. Louis Earth Day Film Series. This is a FREE screening and is co-sponsored by Opera Theater of Saint Louis. A post-film question and answer session will be lead by Cliff Froehlich, executive director, Cinema St. Louis

One of Greta Garbo’s best performances on-screen (especially the ending) can be witnessed in the essential romance drama CAMILLE (1936). She plays Marguerite Gautier, a kept woman (by Henry Daniell) that falls in love with another a young admirer played by the dashing Robert Taylor. Lionel Barrymore plays Taylor’s stern father; Jessie Ralph (among others) also appears. Directed by George Cukor it’s based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas’s son and features a screenplay by Zoe Akins Frances Marion and James Hilton. This is said to be Ms. Garbo’s favorite of her films. She was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award but lost the Oscar to Luise Rainer in The Good Earth (1937). It’s #33 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Love Stories list so don’t miss it!