Camille (Fox; 6 reels; released Sept. 1917).
Cast: Theda Bara (Camille); Albert Roscoe (Armand Duval); Walter Law (Count de Varville); Alice Gale (Madame Prudence); Glen White (Gaston Rieux); Claire Whitney (Celeste).
Directed by J. Gordon Edwards. Written by Adrian Johnson (from the novel and play by Dumas, fils). Photography by Rial Schellinger.
Reviews:
None yet collected.
From Allmovie.com:
"The title character in Dumas' Camille is a Parisian courtesan, but the herione is relatively sympathetic, especially when she gives up her aristocratic young lover Armand Duval (Albert Roscoe) "for his own good." Like many of Bara's 'literary' vehicles, this 1917 version of Camille was directed by J. Gordon Edwards, the grandfather of Blake Edwards. The critic for the trade magazine Variety spoke for many when he noted that the zaftig Bara seemed a bit too 'voluptuous' to play the consumptive heroine. This shortcoming was, however, common to all the cinematizations of Camille, with the possible exception of the 1936 Greta Garbo version." --Hal Erickson.
*Webmaster's note: Nazimova also played Camille in 1921, and was quite slender.
From Silentera.com:
Released 30 September 1917.
The film is presumed lost; one reel of the film survives in a Russian film archive.
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