The Lover of Camille
{{short description|1924 film by Harry Beaumont}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Lover of Camille
| image = The Lover of Camille.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Lobby card
| director = Harry Beaumont
| producer =
| writer = Dorothy Farnum
| screenplay =
| story =
| based_on = {{based on|Deburau|Sacha Guitry}}
| narrator =
| starring = Monte Blue
Willard Louis
Marie Prevost
| music = Mischa Guterson
| cinematography = David Abel
| editing =
| studio = Warner Bros.
| distributor = Warner Bros.
| released = {{Film date|1924|11|16|United States}}
| runtime = 80 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
The Lover of Camille is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont, and starring Monte Blue. The film was based on the French play Deburau by Sacha Guitry, which was also adapted into a Broadway play by Harley Granville-Barker.{{cite book|editor=Munden, Kenneth White |title=The American Film Institute Catalog: Of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States : Feature Films, 1921-1930, Part 1|year=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-20969-9|page=461}}[http://silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LoverOfCamille1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Lover of Camille] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Sewell |first=Charles S. |author-link= |title=The Lover of Camille; Warner Brothers Offer Artistic and Well- Acted Adaptation of Guitry's Tragic Stage Play |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=71 |issue=5 |pages=451 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=29 November 1924 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor71novd/page/451/mode/1up |access-date=22 June 2021}} Jean Gaspard Deburau (Blue), the clown of a pantomime theatre in Paris, is the idol of the populace. In a box is an attractive woman who waits for him after the show. Immediately he falls in love with her. After a time he return to find his own wife has left him for his friend Robillard (Lewis). To the woman, Marie (Prevost), Deburau’s love has been but a passing thing, and returning to her he finds her in the arms of a wealthy fellow, Armand (Miller). Disillusioned, he quits the stage, finding a little happiness in his son Charles. Years pass, Deburau clings to the idea Marie will return, and finally she does, broken in health, telling him Armand has left her. She pleads that he return to the stage, 111 °F with fever, she becomes delirious and Deburau marries her while she thinks he is Armand. At the first performance he breaks down because of his sorrow, and Marie dies. Hiding his broken heart, he dresses his son as the clown and finds some happiness in seeing him acclaimed by the populace.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Monte Blue as Jean-Gaspard Deburau
- Willard Louis as Robillard
- Pat Moore as Charles Deburau, Age 10
- Pierre Gendron as Charles Deburau, Age 17
- Carl Miller as Armand Duval
- Rosa Rosanova as Madame Rabouir
- Marie Prevost as Marie Duplessis
- Winifred Bryson as 'The Unknown'
- Brandon Hurst as Bertrand
- Rose Dione as Madame Deburau
- Trilby Clark as Madame Rubard
}}
Preservation
A print of The Lover of Camille is preserved at the Filmarchiv Austria (Wien).[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.962/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Lover of Camille]
References
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External links
{{commons category|The Lover of Camille}}
- {{IMDb title|0015091}}
{{Harry Beaumont}}
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Category:1924 romantic drama films
Category:1920s biographical drama films
Category:American biographical drama films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films based on works by Sacha Guitry
Category:Films directed by Harry Beaumont
Category:American films based on plays
Category:Biographical films about actors
Category:Films set in the 1840s
Category:Silent American romantic drama films
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