Camille (1921/1936) (MOD)

Camille (1921/1936) (MOD)Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), the Camille of this sumptuous romance based on the enduring Alexandre Dumas story. Garbo's aloof mystique and alabaster beauty illuminate this George Cukor directed film featuring what many call

Kaye plays twins with a twist: one of them is a ghost

and a lined cape

Burnett (Little Caesar)

capturing the grandeur of red-velvet gambling halls and the desperate seediness of cramped pawnshops

A sex farce involving a highly moraled woman and her more loose brother

The ship's computer tech (Jim Hutton) confesses that the computer can also tell where a roulette ball will land

dourly expressive Ziska

Robinson leads the way and Cagney rides shotgun in this brisk tale of barbers who go from cutting hair to cutting in on the gambling racket

Mario Lanza impressively hoists the lead role onto his wide shoulders

brought to the screen by filmmaker Richard Linklater with an edgy graphic-novel look

Let other coeds wait tables or shelve library books

From a series of mysterious letters