Camille

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““Camille: The Fate of a Coquette” A sixteen-millimeter, black- and-white film in four reels, compiled by Ralph Barton from his home movies, ca. 1925-1928. Anita Loos wrote the scenario, “founded on the play by Alexandre by Alexander Dumas fils”

Bruce Kellner, The Last Dandy, Ralph Barton: American Artist, 1891-1931 (University of Missouri Press, 1991)

Camille1 10:00
Camille2 8:58
Camille3 9:40
Camille4 4:08
Total: 32:46

[01; 00:00.000] Camille

[02; 00:09.676] or The Fate of A Coquette

[03; 00:12.813] founded on the play by ALEXANDER DUMAS fils

[04; 00:17.684] Dramatis Personae

[05; 00:33.066] The Weasel ... Georges Lepape
Olga Petroff ... Denise Bourdet
Dou-Dou-Dou ... Bernard Boutet de Monvel
Mancha y Zaragoza ... Sacha Guitry
Angèle Hemingway ... Yvonne Printemps
Abd-el-Hammam ... Alfred Knopf
Grand Duke Michael ... Serge Koussevitsky
Madge ... Wally Toscanini
Andrew Volstead ... H. L. Mencken
Spirit of Valentine ... Joseph Hergesheimer
Estelle ... Aileen Pringle
Les Fâcheux ... Jean-Marie and Marie-Blanche de Polignac
Kitty ... Julia Hoyt

[06; 00:52.085] Mike ... Charles Chaplin
Olympe ... Ethel Barrymore
Count de Varville ... John Emerson
Archbishopm of Cantrebury ... Sem (?)
Lars Nelson ... Paul Mcrand
Sadie ... Patay Ruth Miller
Butter-and-Egg-Man ... Morris Gest
Queenie ... Lili Darvas
Charles Steward Parnell ... Rex Ingram
Jean Bart ... Paul Claudel
Monsieur Duval ... W. Somerset Maugham
Lord Kyno ... Roland Young
Sultan of Morocco ... Sultan of Marocco
Prince von Lindenstein ... Frank Keenan
Drnskaqrsk ... Ferenc Molnar
Siegfried ... Max Reinhardt

[07; 01:11.838] Armand Duval ... Charles G. Shaw
Doctor ... T. R. Smith
Nurse ... Zéna Naylor
Nanine ... Mary Hutchins
Gaston ... Richard Barthelmesse
Pierre ... Chauncey Olcott
Ivon ... Nikita Dalieff
Grace ... Dorothy Gish
Phillippe ... James Rennis
Agatha ... Carmel Myers
The Virgin Mary ... Fanny Ward

Roman Soldiers, Townspeople, Members of Congress, Attendants, etc. etc.

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[08; 01:28.255] DUMAS --- master word-painter of the human emotions --- burnt the midnight oil to guide us a little, with his mighty pen, on the Road of Life.

[09; 01:52.145] His inspired pen dealt out to us --- even as the player deals out cards --- all the elements that control the Destiny of Man.

[10; 02:19.373] Amongst which.......

[11; 02:21.008] LOVE...........

[12; 02:27.280] HATE...........

[13; 02:33.487] DESPAIR..........

[14; 02:39.593] ADULTERY.......

[15; 02:45.532] GREED...............

[16; 02:50.103] MOTHERHOOD.........

[17; 02:54.341] All these --- and more --- the great Dumas graved in men's hearths forever and forever in the bitter-sweet story of CAMILLE.

[18; 03:05.252] But let us linger no longer at the threshold --- let us knock --- and enter the magic door.......

[19; 03:17.097] Camille --- a lonely little flower from Ménilmontat --- finds her way to the Great City beyond the sea,

[201; 03:39.653] Footsore and weary --- she trods on --- until.......

[21; 03:55.135] .......friendly Night clasps her to her bosom. Camille has found the City of her Dreams.

[22; 04:44.951] An hour later --- rested from her long journey --- Camille finds herself among fast friends,

[23; 05:07.507] Come, come, Camille! You must join us --- for this is our birthday!

[24; 05:20.420] END OF PART ONE

[25; 05:23.423] Gas-House Charlie --- proprietor of the exclusive speakeasy in which our little lost lamb is welcomed --- surveys his guests.

[26; 05:55.088] Nan --- sweatie to the President of the United States of America.

[27; 06:24.451] Mr. X --- a ruined archaeologist.

[28; 06:43.336] August Peters --- a Prohibition agent.

[29; 07:02.923] The Earl of Idaho --- a low character.

[30; 07:20.106] Alice Brown --- a virgin.

[31; 07:27.380] Kitty --- President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

[32; 08:00.246] Radavanni --- an international crook.

[33; 08:08.888] A mysterious stranger, called The Weasel.

[34; 08.32.812] Olga Petroff --- bootlegger to the White House.

[35; 08:49.129] Dou-Dou-Dou --- the Mayor of Chicago.

[36; 09:23.930] Juan Maria de la Manchz y Zaragena --- a toreador.

[37; 09:41.648] Angeèla Hemingway --- a Colonel of the Salvation Army.

[38; 09:58.331] Abd-el-Hamman --- a white slave trader.

[39; 10:14.047] Grand Duke Michael --- a Grand Duke.

[40; 10::27.549] Madge --- a simple child of Nature.

[41; 10:48.715] Her eye.

[42; 10.52.886] Andrew Volstead --- author of "The National Prohibition Act", and other literary successes.

[43; 11:02.662] The Shade of Rudolph Valentino.

[44; 11:18.978] Estelle --- a boarding-house keeper

[45; 11:29.489] Arthur --- barkeeper of Small's Paradise.

[46; 11:36.696] Mike --- the bookkeeper, cashier, entertainer and piano-player at Gas-House Charle's.

[47; 12:59.245] Les F&acaret;cheux

[48; 13:10.056] Olympe --- Camille's close friend.

[49; 13:34.681] All --- our heroine's companions on that night of innocent pleasure.

04:30 HLM and Joseph Hergesheimer

[50; 15:06.572] END OF PART TWO

[51; 15:07.807] But --- with the dawn --- came the Count de Varville --- wastrel, degenerate, arch-roué, wolf in sheep's clothing, despoiler of maidenhood.

[52; 15:17.417] Insinuating himself into the merry gathering.....

[53; 15:28.895] .....he soon had our sweet flower within his clutches.

[54; 15:47.947] Dancing girls pirouetted through the pall of cigarette smoke.....

[55; 16:24.584] .....the head of Jokanaan.....

[56; 17:38.257] .....strange visions floated before the eyes of the heedless revelers.....

[57; 18:53.933] .....Mike, the piano player, did his celebrated imitation of Charles Chaplin in "The Gold Rush".....

[58; 20:14.880] .....another day and a night passed in the dimly lit salons of Gas-House Charlie.....

[59; 20:27.426] .....and the wolf's fangs had done their work.

[60; 20:34.066] Varville had crushed another rose...

[61; 20:45.111] From that day, Camille was a bird in a gilded cage. Her palatial residence in Corona became a Mecca for those who trod the Primrose Path.

[62; 20:56.722] Here the wayward traveler found a welcome.....

[63; 21:11.570] .....men came and went.....

[64; 21:32.024] .....established houses did no business.....

[65; 21:39.832] .....and the poor creatures of the street found it difficult to make both ends meet.....

[66; 22:17.903] .....MN --- MEN --- MEN --- came from the four corners of the earth.....

[67; 23:37.716] .....men discussed her everywhere.....

[68; 24:27.700] Thus passed a year.

[69; 24:52.658] The next day Armand calls on his old family physician.

[70; 25:16.315] The wise doctor, having heard of Camille, cautions Armand.

[71; 26:03.562] Frightened by the doctor's words, Armand --- Armand, to --- abandons the child who only asks but to be loved.

[72; 26:40.065] Discouraged, heartbroken, love gone --- Camille dreams of the Little Stranger to come.....

[73; 26:50.843] .....and seeks the Great Silence.....

[74; 27:07.926] .....but, alas! Her courage fails.

[75; 27:24.143] Nanine, her faithful maid, suggests Varville.....

[76; 27:35.487] .....and Camille signals him to come over.

[77; 27:46.498] The wolf, learned in such matters, shows Camille a way out of her most pressing diffulty [sic.].

[78; 28:00.078] After the ordeal --- followed gay summer days of convalescence at the sea-side.

[79; 28:11.056] But the smile was not long to remain on the wan face of Camille.

[80; 28:22.868] One day, passing before the Cathedral in her elegant Hispano-Suiza, she sees.....

[81; 28:34.846] .....a vision of the virgin Mary.....

[82; 28:58.637] ...,,and remorse.....

[83; 29:02.774] .....grips the heart of Camille

[84; 29:24.630] That night --- in her scented boudoir.....

[85; 29:42.914] Too late --- her friends weep for her.....

[86; 31:05.230] VIA WESTERN UNION / FFB6709 NEWYORK 12:31 / PRINCE VON LINDENSTEIN / HOTEL MARTHA WASHINGTON / CAMILLE HAS JUST KICKED THE BUCKET / ARMAND

Iris in and out to show a French translation

[87; 31:50.575] And Camille's Fate? / Whether.....

[88; 32.00.986] .....or.....

[89; 32:10.629] .....who knows? The hand of the Great Dumas writes only.....

[90; 32:24.075] THUS ENDS THE STORY OF A SINNING WOMAN --- DEAR PUBLIC, YOU HAVE SEEN THIS FRAGILE SOUL BROKEN ON THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE --- CONDEMN HER NOT, FOR LIFE IS LIFE AND THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT SAY TO HER, IN IMITATION OF OUR LORD --- GO, AND SIN NO MORE.....

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