I’m not sure how reliable this account is but, if true, this would not have been unusual. Smallwood but cameraman Paul Ivano later claimed that Nazimova took that job as well. Mathis adapted the story, Natacha Rambova would design the film and Nazimova would star. Russian acting legend Alla Nazimova was in residence and a young fellow named Rudolph Valentino was steadily making a name for himself, thanks in part to the writing of June Mathis and the direction of Rex Ingram.Ĭamille had already been adapted into feature films, both Theda Bara and Clara Kimball Young had played the role, but Nazimova’s version would modernize the tale, take it out of grandfather’s day and turn it into a jazz age fable. Metro was a hair away from being the first M in MGM and was generally reckoned to be one of the classiest joints in the American film industry. Jump forward nearly seventy years and we find ourselves at the Metro studio. Dumas adapted the work for the stage four years later and it became a smash hit and the role was regularly used to showcase the acting chops of the best leading ladies in the business. Just one year later, he published Camille, a romanticized novelization of her death. Young Alexandre Dumas, fils had been dazzled by a courtesan who died of the disease in 1847, the height of the TB chic movement. It was the disease of poets, authors, fragile beauties of both genders. Well, the worrywarts of the 90s should have realized that heroin chic had nothing on the Victorian/Gilded Age romanticizing of tuberculosis.Ĭonsumption was regularly portrayed as a romantic and beautiful way to die back in the nineteenth century. Skinny, morose models stared out of black and white Calvin Klein magazine ads with sunken eyes. I remember back in the 1990s there were a considerable number of hands being wrung over so-called heroin chic. Be sure to read the other posts! Red alert! The women have retaken the narrative! This is part of the Rudolph Valentino Blogathon hosted by Timeless Hollywood. Home Media Availability: Released on DVD.
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