Camille (1926 short film)

Camille / The Fate of a Coquette (U.S.)
Directed by	Ralph Barton
Produced by	Ralph Barton
Written by	Alexandre Dumas fils (play)
Starring	Paul Robeson Sinclair Lewis Anita Loos
Release dates	1926 (1926)
Running time	33 mins (DVD)
Language	English French

Camille (1926) is a short film by Ralph Barton, the creation of which is described in Bruce Kellner's The Last Dandy, a biography of Barton.

This 33-minute silent film, an ostensible adaptation of La Dame aux Camélias (by Alexandre Dumas fils). The homemade film is a mish mash of dos and don'ts i.e. a group of people presumably drinking real alcohol from liquor bottles (several of the participants look smashed) when consuming liquor in the United States was illegal and the appearance of a toilet in a bathroom, almost never seen in American silent films of the time save for The Crowd (1928).

Appearances are also made by Paul Robeson, Anita Loos, H. L. Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Paul Claudel, and many other lights of the 1920s cultural scene of Paris and New York.

Cast

• Paul Robeson - Alexandre Dumas fils
• Sinclair Lewis - Allegorical figures
• Anita Loos - Camille
• George Jean Nathan - Arthur
• Donald Freeman - Gustave
• Pauline Starke - Nan
• Theodore Dreiser - Gas-House Gleasen
• Sherwood Anderson - Mr. X
• Clarence Darrow - August Peters
• Lois Moran - Alice Brown
• Édouard Bourdet - The Earl of Idaho
• Jacques Copeau- Radavanni
• Georges Lepape - The Weasel
• Denise Bourdet - Olga Petroff
• Bernard Boulet de Monuel - Dou-Dou-Dou
• Sacha Guitry - Mancha y Zaragosa
• Yvonne Printemps - Angèle Hemingway
• Alfred Knopf - Abd-el-Hammam
• Serge Koussevitzky - Grand Duke Michael
• Wally Toscanini - Madge
• H.L. Mencken - Andrew Volstead
• Joseph Hergesheimer - Spirit of Valentino
• Aileen Pringle - Estelle
• Marie-Blanche de Polignac - Les Pâcheux
• Julia Hoyt - Kitty
• Charles Chaplin - Mike
• Ethel Barrymore- Olympe
• John Emerson - Count de Varville
• Sem - Archbishop of Canterbury
• Paul Morand - Lars Nelson
• Patsy Ruth Miller - Sadie
• Morris Gest - Butter-and-Egg Man
• Lili Darvas - Queenie
• Rex Ingram - Charles Stewart Parnell
• Paul Claudel - Jean Bart
• W. Somerset Maugham - Monsieur Duval
• Roland Young - Lord Kyne
• Sultan of Morocco - Sultan of Morocco
• Frank Keenan - Prince von Lindenstein
• Ferenc Molnár - Drnskaqrsk
• Max Reinhardt - Siegfried
• Charles G. Shaw - Armand Duval
• T.R. Smith - Doctor
• Zéna Naylor - Nurse
• Mary Hutchins - Nanine
• Richard Barthelmess - Gaston
• Chauncey Olcott - Pierre
• Nikita Balieff - Ivon
• Dorothy Gish - Grace
• James Rennie - Philippe
• Carmel Myers - Agatha
• Mrs. Thomas Ward - The Virgin Mary

External links

• Camille at IMDb