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Garbo is at her radiant best in Cukor’s refined and elegant adaptation of Dumas’s novel and play about a Parisian courtesan.
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Director
George Cukor
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With
Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan
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USA 1936. 109min
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Digital
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Certificate
PG
Dumas’ stage version of his novel The Lady of the Camellias was the first of countless adaptations; this is surely one of the finest on film. Garbo gives her all as the Parisian courtesan, kept by a baron but loved by another while she battles with consumption. MGM supplied the sumptuous sets and costumes, William Daniels’ the lustrous camerawork, Cukor the refined direction.
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